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This week we are all aware of so much suffering in the world. Victims of airliner crashes, families in fear of bombs falling on them in Israel-Palestine, the ongoing wars in Syria, Ukraine, and the shameful prison conditions of nearly 60,000 children caught on southern border. In the gospel passage from Matthew 13 this week… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Sixth Sunday after Pentecost July 20, 2014, 10:30 am Meditation “Up until the parousia, the church will always be a mixed bag of good and evil; it should not play God by trying to justify itself completely through purges and Inquisitions….The… Read more.

Bloodmobile today, Union Church Community Room, 11-5! Please bring ID. Donors will be entered to win a 4-pack of box seat tickets plus all-you-can-eat buffet at the Cincinnati Reds vs. Washington Nationals game on Saturday, July 26.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Fifth Sunday after Pentecost July 13, 2014, 10:30 am Meditation If we want to reflect the image of God, we will choose grace over hostility, reconciliation over revenge, and equality over rivalry.  When we make that choice, we encounter God in… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Fifth Sunday after Pentecost July 13, 2014, 10:30 am Meditation If we want to reflect the image of God, we will choose grace over hostility, reconciliation over revenge, and equality over rivalry.  When we make that choice, we encounter God in… Read more.

  Thank you Tracy Bose and family! The WCSC, along with the Berea Arts Council, will enjoy and long benefit from the glorious selection of notions, fabric and tools Virginia collected over her inspiring quilt-making history. Union Church is already graced with some of Virginia’s actual marvelous quilt-work. How happy we are to receive the… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Fourth Sunday after Pentecost July 6, 2014, 10:30 am Meditation “The ‘rest’ Jesus promises summons up the image of the eschatological rest in the days of the Messiah, of which the Sabbath rest was a symbol and a foretaste. Paradoxically, Jesus’… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Third Sunday after Pentecost June 29, 2014, 10:30 am Meditation A story said to originate in a Russian Orthodox monastery has an older monk telling a younger one: “I have finally learned to accept people as they are. Whatever they are… Read more.