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Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union and First Christian Church World Communion Sunday October 4, 2020 10:30 am  From there to here: we Gather Welcome As the Berea community responds to the governor’s suggestion to avoid gathering in large groups, we worship online to limit the risk of… Read more.

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 27, 2020 10:30 am  Meditation                        I say to people at our “welcome to house” brunches: I’m glad you love it here, but at some point, I will disappoint you, or the church will let you down. Please decide on this side of that happening if you will still stick around…. Read more.

Dear friends and church family, Yesterday’s events have illuminated so much of what is broken in our society. Souls are wounded, bodies have been shot and torn, and still so little is being done to address the root cause. I have spent the last 24 hours in consultation with clergy in Louisville, in prayer with… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 20, 2020          10:30 am Meditation When they were hungry, manna fell from heaven, and they were fed; but a disquiet robbed them of a vision of the miracle. There was only deprivation and… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 13, 2020      10:30 am   Meditation Yet while some have concluded that it is indeed the case that we humans are alone, others have looked at these same events and suggested a much different spiritual… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 6, 2020          10:30 am Meditation “Anything that leaves you more fearful, more isolated, more disconnected from other people, more full of judgment or self-hatred, is not of God, and does not follow the Rule of Love–and you… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost August 30, 2020     10:30 am Meditation   What are the warning signs of a civilization–or a person–moving toward collapse? … We know more than ever about our enemies, except how to love them or lay down our… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost August 23, 2020          10:30 am Meditation If there were not diversity in the body, and all the members were the same or nearly the same, the body would be a nearly unrecognizable, non-functional entity. … Read more.