In the reading for this week, we enter the house of Mary and Martha. One of them is doing the exact right thing in the wrong way, and the other is doing the wrong thing in the right spirit. We find ourselves in both of these situations, seeking to balance competing goods, competing needs. Here more »
Today the United Church of Christ General Synod (the national setting of the church Rev. Rachel and Rev. Kent are ordained to), passed a resolution decrying the use and effects of mountain top removal in Appalachia. A second resolution forcefully committed the denomination to carbon reduction and a call for immediate global action to reduce more »
Naomi Schulz addressed a gathering of Pacific School of Religion alumni (where she is currently a 3rd year seminarian) at the United Church of Christ General Synod in Long Beach, CA. She inspired and challenged those present with her experience of transformative work and vocation, and mentioned how Union Church was among her inspirations and more »
In the midst of doing hard things, hard times can come and come heavy. God often works through surprising communities of care in those circumstances and speaks in, through, and around the sound and fury of other, even demonic, voices. Here is the prayer written by Rev. Kent and offered so graciously by worship leader more »
Today was our first full day in El Salvador, and a busy day, from 7 AM breakfast to 8:30 PM reflection and debriefing. We first visited the National Assembly, where we were addressed by a legislator of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FLMN), the former guerrillas turned politicians, and the main leftist party. The more »
Work is progressing steadily (when the rain permits!) on our renewed Memorial Garden. New stone paths, benches and special plantings will make the space between the main sanctuary and Cowan Chapel a special place of peace and green, growing reflection. First suggested in 1998, the memorial garden was the inspiration of Mary Nash and Judy more »
A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Fourth Sunday after Pentecost & Father’s Day June 16, 2013 Meditation To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. –Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965, more »
In Sunday’s sermon, I read the comments of Waynel Mayes, a teacher at a Moore, OK, elementary school and niece of Union Church members Al and Alice White. Waynel was interviewed on CNN and wrote these comments at the request of the Governor of Oklahoma. Her words give us all a window on both the more »
Congratulations! It was an award trifecta for Union Church as members Paul Smithson, Cheyenne and Richard Olson, and Sandy Bolster, swept the faculty and community service awards for 2013 at Berea College commencement, Sunday, May 5. Winning the Paul Hagar Award for Excellence in Advising was Paul Smithson, professor of Chemistry at the college, who was cited for more »
Peter’s vision of all the unclean animals suddenly being placed ‘on the table’ of what God calls “clean,” opens him to visiting the gentile Cornelius. While there, the Holy Spirit falls on Cornelius and his family just as it had on the Jewish disciples, and Peter asks himself, “who am I to hinder God?” The more »
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
