A Summer Sermon Series (One Service at 1030 a.m.)

The guest speaker for the entire month is The Rev. Silvio Nardoni, a member of this congregation. He is a graduate of the University of Redlands, the University of Michigan Law School, and received his Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1981. He currently practices law in Los Angeles, emphasizing litigation, including elder abuse cases. Mr. Nardoni was the minister at Emerson Unitarian Church in Canoga Park from 1981 to 1985, and he served on the headquarters staff of the Unitarian Universalist Association in the Department of Ministry from 1985 to 1988. He currently serves as a member of the Ministerial Board of Review of the UUA. Currently, he lives in the Silverlake district of Los Angeles, with his wife, Wanda Teays, and an assortment of fur-bearing and feathered creatures (two cats and a bird).

Unitarian Universalism is an "ethical" religion, i.e., the true test of our faith lies in what we do, not profession of certain beliefs. My recent reading in virtue-based ethics informed the selection of these