Events

 Southern Faith Witness: A March and Rally for the Civil Rights Struggle of Our Era On Tuesday, March 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States begins hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the ban on gay marriage. The ban denies over 1400 civil rights, tax benefits, housing incentives and legal protections to thousands of… Read more.

There is still time to order your Lily for Easter morning! Fill out the form by Wednesday, March 27! Easter morning flowers are a glorious way to celebrate the joy of resurrection. Now you can order sanctuary lilies in honor or memory of loved ones for just $15 and a click or call! Sales of… Read more.

The New Opportunity School for Women is partnering with Mary Kay on a contest to win $5000 as part of their “One Woman” campaign. The goal is for the NOSW to have logged 300 makeovers (free of charge; no pressure to buy or sell). Last year’s winner won with 130, and we know we can… Read more.

There are a few spots left for our Lenten Community-Building Challenge Course at the ropes course facility in Richmond next Sunday, March 10. Facilitator Kim Kobersmith will lead us through a series of group challenges that involve cooperation, problem solving, and some physical dexterity on the low ropes course at EKU. Please join us!! We… Read more.

Blood on the Cedars addresses the imperial conquest of nature and connects the feral theatricality of the Hebrew prophets to contemporary resistance movements. Combining storytelling, song, movement and music- integrating the scholarship of Ched Myers with the brazen poetry of Jim Perkinson- the call of the wild comes alive in this theatrical depiction of an… Read more.

Union Church members made a trip to Cincinnati to view the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit on Saturday, February 24.  The exhibit traces the history of these important biblical texts found in 1946 by a Palestinian shepherd where they had been hidden for nearly 2000 years. Considered among the world’s greatest archaeological discoveries, the Dead Sea… Read more.

Ash Wednesday Service Union Church, February 13, 2013 Meditation Would you become a pilgrim on the road of Love?  The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.                                                                                                         —Ansarit of Herat Bell Introit                      Call to Worship                     from Seasons of the Spirit One:     We meet… Read more.

Please join us as we welcome the new members of the Berea Human Rights Commission on February 12, 6:00 pm, at Berea Coffee & Tea, 124 Main St., Berea. This 2nd annual community welcome reception will be a fun, informal opportunity to meet members of the Berea Human Rights Commission and the City Council to… Read more.