by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 21, 2013 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward We have spent some time in worship and our small group reflection this month playing with this interesting notion introduced by the novelist David Foster Wallace. Speaking to the graduating class at Kenyon College in 2005, he argued that there are...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 14, 2013 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister So, today we return to this month’s worship theme of “default settings,” an opportunity for us to examine some of those untested assumptions and routine ways of thinking in our religious lives that get in the way living fully with...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 7, 2013 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister On a bright fall morning more than a decade ago, Sam Zurich began the day as he usually does with his radio tuned to NPR. As he was getting breakfast together, his ears pricked up to an item on the news: a couple of jetliners that...