by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 30, 2013 | Sermons
REFLECTION 1: “I’m dancing with myself” Okay. Full disclosure: I can’t dance. At least not the way they were dancing during the prelude. Give me a driving rock & roll drum beat and I’m all over the place. But I love this other music; this music that begs...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 23, 2013 | Sermons
READING From “A Treatise on Atonement” by Hosea Ballou “There is nothing in heaven above, nor in the earth beneath, that can do away with sin, but love; and we have reason to be eternally thankful, that love is stronger than death, that many waters cannot...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 9, 2013 | Sermons
READING A Thirsty Fish by Rumi I don’t get tired of you. Don’t grow weary of being compassionate toward me! All this thirst equipment must surely be tired of me, the water jar, the water carrier. I have a thirsty fish in me that can never find enough of what it’s...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 3, 2013 | Sermons
Debbie and I arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the summer of 1984. I had taken a reporting job at The Milwaukee Journal, an afternoon paper, which, in that blue collar town, made it the leading paper in town. It was an unrepentant liberal daily that Time magazine...