Worship Videos

  • “Technology and Me” – Bruce Bowdon, Jen Ciolino, Barbara Rohrer, and Finn Palmer

    Sunday, February 9, 2025

    Four members of Heritage (Jen Ciolino, Barbara Rohrer, Finn Palmer, and Bruce Bowdon) will share how they interact with technology in five-minute reflections. There will be a variety of viewpoints that will offer the congregation a kaleidoscope of ways in considering their relationship with technology.

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  • “State of the Church” – Rev. Bill Gupton

    Sunday February 2, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

    Heritage Church – formerly and formally known as the First Universalist Society of Cincinnati – is nearly 198 years old. This morning our Senior Minister, who will be retiring from the Unitarian Universalist ministry this spring, will share his final “State of the Church” reflection.

    Legendary Unitarian minister Theodore Parker once spoke of “the transient and the permanent.” With major changes on the horizon at Heritage, what might we hold on to as “timeless” – and what might we embrace as generative transformation?

  • “MLK’s Dream: Walking the Long Road Together” – Jen Ciolino

    Sunday January 19, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

    “I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;” 

    – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963,
    excerpt from Letter from Birmingham Jail

    We remain on a long, winding journey toward a world free of systemic racism—one where the initial outrage sparked by injustice too often recedes into silence, and even backlash, over time. Together, we will explore this road with candor, humor, reflection, and a willingness to embrace discomfort. 

    Our path forward calls us to grow, to act, and to move beyond complacency, transforming aspiration into tangible change.

  •  “The Earliest Religious Impulses” – Bethany Rogers

    Sunday January 5, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

    Bethany offers some thoughts on the very earliest human religious impulses and practices, and what those fellow souls may have to teach us about our own spiritual journey. 

    Bethany is a software analyst in the healthcare industry, has two college age children and lives with her husband in Madeira. They have been in the Cincinnati area for about 20 years and now know what to do if someone randomly says “Please?” in a conversation.

  • “Birth, Breath, Death” – Rev. Jenn Gracen

    Sunday December 29, 2024, 10:30 a.m.

    Rev. Jenn Gracen of St. John’s UU Church leads today’s service. We live lives in transition. As we approach the end of the year, we are facing yet another transition. What can we learn from these points in our lives?

  • “Christmas Song Extravaganza” – Bruce Bowdon

    Sunday December 15, 2024, 10:30 a.m.

    The Extravaganza will include a slide show with video of Christmas songs that you’ve forgotten, ones you hoped that you would never hear again, and Christmas songs that never mention Christmas.