by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 23, 2015 | Weekly Message
A week or so ago, I had a conversation with UUCA member Anna Olsen about the Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast, in which we discussed the practice of each organization sitting at their own table. We talked about how it made sense to do so, but that it seemed that by...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 17, 2015 | Weekly Message
You may have heard me say that even if your family is here every Sunday, the total amount of religious education we can provide at UUCA for children and youth is about 50 hours per year. In the big scheme of things, that’s a minuscule amount of faith development. We...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 14, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister It’s not long after a child is old enough to be up on her or his feet and running around that we adults discover that we possess the most powerful curative known to humankind. We call it, “the boo-boo kiss.” Right? You know how it is: up...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 10, 2015 | Weekly Message
As we settle into our new and welcoming home, and in this time of holidays, it’s a good time to pause and reflect on what we want to be as a UU community. Or, as Lead Minister Mark Ward challenged us this past Sunday, “It is fine to be a gathering place of...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 7, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister Some years ago, the story goes, there was worrying among members of the council of New College, of Oxford, England about the state of their buildings. It seems that an inspector had been poking around the ancient oak beams of the roof of...
