by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 29, 2016 | Weekly Message
by Dr. Linda Topp, Director of Administration This title will be an obvious reference to anyone who’s seen the movie, Amadeus. However, since the movie came out in 1984 (good grief!), perhaps a little review is necessary. In the movie, Emperor Joseph II has...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 26, 2016 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister What is required of our religious movement to make it the change agent it hopes to be? Today, at the anniversary of the Universalist John Murray’s landing in the U.S. I will address how we might respond to this question in the...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 22, 2016 | Weekly Message
by Rev. Lisa Bovee-Kemper, Associate Minister “How long, O Lord, how long?” are the words heard over and over, the Biblical refrain of lament. I hear cries of lament, of grief and rage, echoing across our country, hurled to the sky, lobbed at passers-by like the tear...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 15, 2016 | Weekly Message
How does a person build deep faith identity? By being welcomed into the circle, invited to share and know deeply the rhythms, rituals, and sacred spaces of their religious community. This kind of foundational faith development is taught not in a class but by, and...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 13, 2016 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister The Way of Covenant is ultimately a different way of seeing, of envisioning the people and the world around us. We begin our fall worship season by inviting each other into this wider view of our faith tradition. READINGS From ”Antiphonal...
