Existentialism has gotten a bad rap for being filled with despair. In this service we review life affirming lessons regarding the connections between authencitiy and journey from the existential canon.

This service explores the differences between travel and pilgrammages, and offers suggestions for how to incorporate the practice of pilgrammage even into everyday life

Insights from the Quaker tradition about the nature of life’s journey.

The younger children are with us for the first part of worship, and the sixth graders and up for the whole service,  as we introduce this month’s theme in worship and religious education, “Journey.”    NUUC members who volunteer at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville offer witness to  touching journeys of transformation and recovery.

Yourself A New Born Bard.  Trusting conscience and intuition as a source of religious authority is a central characteristic of liberal religion.  What are the ways we can trust ourselves, and when perhaps should we not?

Founding Parents..  On this Presidents’ Day weekend, we look at new attitudes towards our national founding figures  (beginning but not ending with the surprising reinvention in the musical Hamilton);  what is the current state of moral imagination in America?

Trust is an essentially component of all relationships.  But do we know how to purposefully build trust, one small action at a time?  And what does it mean in a culture like ours that has entirely new ideas about trust than previous generations?

The younger children are with us for the first part of worship, and the sixth graders and up for the whole service, as we introduce this month’s theme in worship and religious education, “Trust.”  Lessons fro the civil rights movement on how to become trustworthy, not only as individuals, but in community settings.

Local UU Minister Rev. Lynda Smith offers a worship focused on what she learned and witnessed as a participant in the Poor People’s Campaign.

On this Martin Luther King Day weekend, we explore how nonviolent resistance can introduce new possibilities into even seemingly intractable situations.