Dear UUs, General Assembly (GA), our annual gathering for connection, democratic governance, worship, and learning is happening next month! As we continue to make GA more accessible, this year is a multiplatform event. Many UUs will gather in person in Baltimore, MD and others will join us online on Wednesday, June 18 through Sunday, June … Continue reading UUA News – May 2025
As many of us begin to enjoy seasonal changes associated with this time of year—flowers, new growth, and more sunlight—we continue to be bombarded with fear-based attacks on ourselves, our Shared Values, and our loved ones and communities. It is exhausting and deeply troubling. Yet through it all, Unitarian Universalists continue to care for one … Continue reading UUA News – April 2025
A Holiday Message from the UUA Beloveds, As we enter into our holiday season once again, I am suffused with gratitude for all of the ways that UUs have been living their faith boldly in the past year –in your congregation’s ministries, in worship on Sundays, during our historic Climate Justice Revival last September, … Continue reading We Gather With Love
CIRQUE KALABANTÉ When the large drums started beating, four in total, I could feel the sound in my chest. I instantly looked to see how the kids from ROCS were responding. One, two…five, six…I counted ten (there were probably more) steady with their headphones on, while others who didn’t have them (or forgot to … Continue reading Cirque Kalabanté
Come Celebrate the Holidays With Us! Donate to Holiday Appeal 2025 Here Special Holiday Services Dec. 10 at 7pm – “Sorrow at this Season” Grief Service Dec. 21 at 11am – [rescheduled] Holiday Cookie Fair (buy a box) Dec. 21 at 11am – Winter Solstice Service Holiday Music Events Dec. 12 at 7pm – … Continue reading Holidays at First UU
November 16, 6:30pm Live Auction At the SYC Scholarship Auction on November 16, enjoy good food, drinks, and time with connections new, old, and in between. Tables of treasures, experiences, services, and gift cards will go to the highest silent auction bidder. As a community planned, funded, and executed event, 100% of the proceeds go … Continue reading SYC Scholarship Auction
To our beloved Unitarian Universalist community: Yesterday morning, we awoke to the undeniable reality that the religious and political right’s decades-long strategy to sow fear and division and pit our communities against one another prevailed on the electoral landscape. While there were victories on important issues in state measures and local races, we cannot … Continue reading Wellspring of Hope and Courage
There are many in our community who are hurting this morning. Some of us may be angry, wondering how this happened. Some of us may be scared. And some of us are probably feeling overwhelmed and don’t know how to make the next move. All of these feelings are valid and important. We are a … Continue reading First UU Community Vigil Tonight
Dear UU Congregations, We gather on the morning after, in a time of great fear and devastation and very real risk to ourselves and our Beloveds. There is so much that we cannot yet know. Even if we know the shape and fear the character of our next governmental administration, we cannot fully know … Continue reading We Are a Sanctuary People
Please join us for the Ordination of Justice Minister Amanda Hays! Date: Saturday November 2, 2024 Time: 2pm (Reception to follow) First Unitarian Universalist Church 93 W Weisheimer Rd/Columbus, OH 43214 Join Via Youtube The theme of the ordination service will be Cracking Open. Join us to ordain Amanda and … Continue reading Ordination of Rev. Amanda Hays
