There is a movement  within our Association of Unitarian Universalist congregations and communities to add a Principle to our current list of Seven Principles. The June, 2017, General Assembly directed the Association’s Board to form a study commission to discuss adding an 8th Principle as follows: We the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, … Continue reading Sunday Service: The Eighth Principle of Unitarian Universalism

Robert Thurston joins us this morning to discuss 1794: The Year the Federal Government established its authority, a standing army, and the right to suppress internal rebellions; and, oh yes, its ability to regulate arms. Service Leader: Linda Amspaugh.

Tami Lunan is organizing outreach for the National Audubon Society in the Cincinnati area. With a background in public policy, movement and community building, LGBTQ and racial justice, Tami will lead us in a lively discussion about the importance of fostering inclusive participation as we strive to protect and enjoy our planet home. Service leader: Liz Woedl

Around the world more than a billion women and children risk their lives and/or health every day in order to cook the family’s food.  The environmental cost is also staggering.  Solar cooking could be and important part of the solution. Service leader: Linda Amspaugh.  Spring Congregational meeting to follow the service.

Miami’s Department of Architecture & Interior Design has a long-standing relationship with the West African nation of Ghana.  J Elliott, who has taken seven student groups to Ghana over the years–and in doing so has even earned the title of Honorary Chief–will share with us some of their inter-cultural accomplishments. Service Leader:  Peter Carels.  Join … Continue reading Sunday Service: The Miami-Ghana Connection

Hana-Matsuri: Buddha’s birthday Lama Surya Das writes, “Buddhism and Unitarian Universalism value many of the same things, including experiential practice, study and self-inquiry, mindful awareness cultivation, insightful wisdom development, and loving-kindness, combined with active compassion in the world. This is the heart of sacred activism—empowering, educating, edifying, elevating, transforming, and liberating.”   Join Diane Wright as we … Continue reading Sunday Service: Buddhism and Unitarian Universalism

Join us for a very special Intergenerational Easter Service led by Genevieve O’Malley Knight and our RE kids.  Kids and Adults are encouraged to bring baskets for some special hunts!

In honor of Women’s History Month we will look back at the controversial Unitarian theologian who articulated one of the earliest arguments for women’s equality. For a long time, her early death amid scandal overshadowed her thought, but scholars have offered new readings of her works in recent years. Patty Klingenberg will lead us through … Continue reading Sunday Service-Margaret Fuller: A New Look at our UU past.

Prue Dana will share this slide show that was filmed June 28, 2017 with Al Gore and the Climate Reality people. This ten-minute presentation is that the Climate Crisis is urgent, but solutions are at hand.  Service leader:  Peter Carels Join us after Sunday service for our monthly potluck.

An 18th Century physician, farmer and Deist regularly ate oysters and swilled claret with Scottish Enlightenment contemporaries economist Adam Smith, chemist James Black, inventor James Watt and others on his way to formulating a theory that placed the age of Earth many millions of years older than the 6000 years calculated by Calvinist Archbishop Ussher … Continue reading Sunday Service-James Hutton (1726-1797), The Scotsman Who Found Time