by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 30, 2015 | Weekly Message
Change is afoot in the RE spaces! The construction project necessitated some changes, and opened the door to others. I want to share what we are doing to make the RE class and common spaces better and more welcoming. I began working here a year ago this month (that’s...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 23, 2015 | Weekly Message
A few weeks ago on this blog, Mark discussed some of the spiritual lessons present in the Welcome Project. The day-to-day experience of change is a powerful teacher. It is not only the spiritual lessons that are meaningful, but also the ordinary ones. I have spoken to...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 20, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Julianne Lepp, Guest Minister This sermon explores how we can break away from well-worn patterns that no longer serve us. What does it mean to trust yourself to follow the road less traveled? In Patti Digh’s <i>Life Is A Verb: 37 Days To Wake Up, Be...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 16, 2015 | Weekly Message
The past month has been one of full immersion into the wider Unitarian Universalist community for me. First, Mara and I went to the Unitarian Universalist Association’s General Assembly in Portland at the end of June. General Assembly consists of a series of...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 13, 2015 | Sermons
Monika Gross, Guest Speaker Religions throughout time have included gesture and movement as important parts of liturgy. Can motion embody meaning for us as religious humanists, separate from specific religious dogma? What is the quality invoked by pressing my palms...
