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The Overstory

Divide, multiply, transform, conjoin, do, endure—today Rev. Susan explores what trees have to teach us about resilience and connected living.  Join us at 10:30 AM at our newly renovated and expanded church home at 1574 Franklin Street, Lewis Center, Ohio, or, attend online using this link: Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82694590385?pwd=TlRCUitCa0VSdnNyY2tvemM5N29KUT09 Meeting ID: 826 9459 0385Passcode: … Continue reading The Overstory

Freed Between the Lines

Rev. Susan celebrates banned book week by noting the many times lives have been transformed—even saved—because “controversial” material was readily available to the public.  After worship, please join us for an all ages picnic at Highbanks Metro Parks, in the Green Meadows Picnic Area (this the picnic area the farthest towards the back of the … Continue reading Freed Between the Lines

All Who Wander Are Not Lost

From Walt Whitman’s “Songs of the Open Road” to the Beat Poets, many Americans have stressed the road trip as the perfect avenue for self-discovery.  In this worship, Rev. Susan explores the implications and the logistics of taking a specifically spiritual journey where the destination is less important than the process. Join us at 10:30 … Continue reading All Who Wander Are Not Lost

What Will You Do?

Seminary Student John McConnell reflects on how an educational trip to the Deep South forced an uncomfortable examination of his complicity in racism but ultimately revealed a path from apathy to action. A father of five, John, his wife Andrea, and their two youngest share their home with four silly dogs and a sweet bird. … Continue reading What Will You Do?

God Says Yes to Me

A “question box sermon” query that Rev. Susan received about trans women participating in women’s sports prompts a theological reflection on gender diversity, and what it means for all of us to live out our authentic truths. And there’s more! After a slightly abbreviated worship, we will hear a short presentation from Jen Miller, the … Continue reading God Says Yes to Me

Onwards and Upwards!

Unitarian Universalism has generally been optimistic about our social future, noting that the arch of the moral universe may be long, but that it bends towards justice.  In this service, Rev. Susan wrestles with how we can be resilient people of progressive faith in times when progress is not always evident.     Join us at … Continue reading Onwards and Upwards!

Fuel for the Engine

The late, great fantasy author and satirist Sir Terry Pratchett was well acquainted with anger. Through a brief exploration of the world he created in his Discworld series of novels, Summer Student Minister Noa Tobin discusses what he did with that anger, and what we as Unitarian Universalists can learn from his writings. Join us … Continue reading Fuel for the Engine

You Are Not a Lizard!

From the mistaken idea that humans have a remanent “lizard” brain to the rhetoric of the “culture wars,” our contemporary political and social discourse is increasingly supportive of emotional reactivity, encouraging us to react immediately and disproportionately to predictable triggers that seem to carry with them the weight of existential threat.  In today’s worship, Rev. … Continue reading You Are Not a Lizard!