Worship Videos

  • “Two Seas” – Rev Bill Lyon

    Sunday, September 7 at 10:30 a.m.

    We begin our new church year with the beloved Ingathering Water Ceremony.

    In his first service as our minister, Rev. Bill Lyon invites us to join in this annual ritual of mingling the waters—a symbol of our diverse journeys flowing into one community. Please bring a small container of water from your summer (a trip, a backyard pool, even a kitchen sink). If you forget, symbolic water will be provided.

  • Holy Havoc: Pride, Pentecost, and Play – Laci Lee Adams, DLFD

    Sunday, June 8, 2025, 10:00 a.m.

    Pentecost is often celebrated as the moment in which the Holy Spirit, the Divine Spark of Justice, fully becomes present in our world! What better way to encounter this Holy Havoc, then our celebrations of Pride, and other playful encounters with our World. Today’s All Ages service will be led by Laci Lee Adams, Director of Lifespan Faith Development. Steph Tacy will be Worship Associate.  Music will be provided by Friction Farm. 

    Image source: https://tinyurl.com/3mnak6ch

  • “Moving Forward with Joy, Hope and Vision” – Laci Lee Adams, DLFD, Rev. Bill Gupton, Reid Hester

    Sunday, March 16, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

    This morning we look ahead to an exciting and generative period of transition and possibility as a community of faith. Join us in person or online as we renew our commitment to Heritage Church and its values by leaning into the joy and hope we share, and the vision of what we can become, together.

    Image source: created by B.L. Barnes

  • “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.

    Image source: https://tinyurl.com/mvd4bn3z

  • “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.