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AUDIO (MP3 Files)

MINISTER / GUEST SPEAKER

5-4-08 "What I Know About Grief"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
4-27-08 Spring Concert

Audio File

Kenny Smith, Director of First Church Choir
4-13-08 "Music, Mystery & Meaning-
A Meditation"  (click here for Order of Service)

Audio File of Service (128 kbs)
Audio File of Service (64 kbs)

The Mountain Quartet
4-6-08 "Christianity 101"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
3-30-08 "The Human Cost of War"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
3-23-08 Easter Service

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
3-16-08 "Filling Our Spirits by Raising the Green"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
3-2-08 Improvisational Sermon #1

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
2-24-08 "Faith Without Borders"

Sermon

Rev. Harold Babcock
2-17-08 "Parents as Spiritual Guides"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
2-10-08 "Religion and Violence"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
2-3-08 “Is there room in your heart for science and room in your head for religion?”

Sermon #1
Sermon #2

Eugene Chung
Damon Ragusa

1-27-08 "To Be of Use"

Reading / Pulpit Editorial (Ray Sinclair)
Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
 
1-20-08 "The Interdependent Web of Money and Life"

Sermon
Carter Family Greeting
(Starita Smith)
Amazing Grace
(Kenny Smith)

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
1-13-08 "Judaism 101"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
1-6-08 Congregational Growth

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-31-07 New Year's Resolutions

Sermon

Keley Smith-Keller
12-24-07 Christmas Eve

Sermon

Rabbi Robert Barr
12-23-07 Holiday Concert (click for program)

Sermon

Kenny Smith, Music Director
12-16-07 "Out of the Darkness of Our Sphere"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-9-07 "Bad Religion: Defining Cults"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-2-07 "Friendship - To Be Tamed"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
11-25-07 "Because My Faith Compels Me"

Sermon

Adam Gerhardstein
11-18-07 "To Catch the Heart Off Guard"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
11-11-07 "Generating Universal Loving Kindness"

Sermon

Venerable Jam-Yang Lama
11-4-07 "Days of the Dead"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-28-07 "Many Ways to God: A Sermon on Hinduism"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-21-07 Fathers, Sons and Loss: What We Can Learn (Link to UU World Article)

Sermon

Neil Chethik
10-14-07 "Now Is the Time"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-7-07 "Love and Righteousness"
A Sermon in Honor of Rainbow Sunday

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
9-30-07 "A Season of Change:
An Interfaith Celebration of Sukkot”
  Rabbi Moshe Thomas Heyn, Guest Musician and Speaker
9-23-07 "To Drown My Feelings: The Story of Addiction"

Sermon
The Long and Winding Road (Soloist: Tom Sandman)

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
9-16-07 "When the Arrow Leaves the Bow It Returns No More"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
9-9-07 "Religious Literacy 101"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
9-2-07 "Emerald Run Creek"   Roland Johnson
8-26-07 "Big Little Minds"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
8-19-07 "Words of Loss and Hope"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
8-5-07 "Kurt Vonnegut: The Religious Legacy of an Iconoclast"   Rev. Bruce Clear
6-24-07 "Skipping The Light Fantastic"   Keley Smith-Keller
6-10-07 "The End of Dreams"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
5-27-07 "The Self as Person"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
5-13-07 "Love Makes a Family"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar, Meredith Keith Chirch, Eric Elfner
5-6-07 "The Limits of Tolerance"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
4-22-07 "Muck Muck from the Meadows"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
4-1-07 "Passover of the Future"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
3-25-07 "Who We Are Called to Be"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
3-18-07 “Hospitality To Strangers”

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
2-25-07 "Love in All and Final Things"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
2-11-07 "Becoming Righteous"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
1-28-07 "New Year: New Plan"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
1-14-07 Carter Sunday

Sermon

William L. Mallory, Sr.
12-24-06 "The Most Real Things"   Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-17-06 "Hanukkah: A Tale of Jewish  Survival" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-10-06 Holiday Choral Worship - Handel's Messiah (classical and gospel arrangements)

Concert (30 MB)

Kenny Smith, Director of First Church Choir and Peace and Serenity Choir
12-3-06 "Winter Holiday Management 101" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
11-6-06 Salem Village 1692: A Congregational
Halloween Tale

Sermon
Choir: Daemon Irrepit Callidus

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-22-06 "We See Our Faces in Each Other's Eyes" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-8-06 "Countdown Cincinnati"

Sermon
Choir: Peace Is

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-1-06 "Finding Energy for What Really Matters"

Sermon
Choir: Rhythm of Life (arr. Richard Barnes)

Roxanne Qualls
9-24-06 "The Binding of Isaac" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
9-17-06 "Islam and the Arabic World"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
9-10-06 "Crossing Over to Relevance"

Sermon

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
8-20-06 "Are We Just Yolks?" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
8-13-06 "Sabbatical Stories" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
 7-9-06 What is Security, Anyway?"

Sermon

Scott Aiken
7-2-06 "Proud to be an American? Two Perspectives..." Dr. Kathleen Smythe and Dr. David Broscious
6-4-06 "Slights of Passage" Rev. Annie Foerster
5-28-06 "Reflections on Military Service, Remembrance, and Pacifism"

Sermon
Choir: Battle Hymn of the Republic

Roy Euvrard
Rachel Chung
Fritz Casey-Leininger
5-21-06 "The Soulful Side of Work"

Sermon

Keley Smith-Keller
4-23-06 "The Unthinking Sea"

Sermon

Rev. Bonnie Meyer, Chaplain at Hospice of Northern Kentucky, Guest Minister
4-9-06 Transitions"

Sermon

Rev. Helen Lutton Cohen
3-26-06 "The Sunny Side of Doubt"

Sermon

Pete Rizzo
3-19-06 "Being Born Again, and Again, and Again"

Sermon (18.7 MB)
Choir: The Marvelous Work (Haydn) Soloist: Jennifer Seitzer, Soprano (2.4 MB)

Rev. Dr. Harold G.  Porter
 3-12-06 Impressions "Made in China"  

Mimi Gingold, Beth Duff, Barb Rider, Linda Miltner

3-5-06 "A Positive Interruption for Change"

Sermon (11.0 MB)
Choir: Hush! Someone's Callin' My Name (4 MB)

Rev. Doris Hoskins
 
2-26-06 "Hold On To What Is Good"

Sermon (11.6MB)
Choir: Shadowland, featuring Rozy Parks, Alto (5.7 MB)

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
2-19-06 "Freedom vs. Hatred: Cartoon Art Under Fire"

Sermon (9.4 MB)
Organ: Fugue a la Gigue (Buxtehude)  2.0 MB
Organ: Prelude in C minor
(J. S. Bach)  1.1 MB

Rev. Sharon Dittmar

Organist: Dr. David Mulbury
2-12-06 "For All That is Our Life"

Sermon (11.6 MB)
Choir: Dies Irae (2.5 MB)
Choir: If I Had A Hammer (5.8 MB)

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
2-7-06 Mennonites Arts Weekend

East Mennonite
University Choir (4 MB)

Ken Nafziger, Conducting
1-29-06 "Who Is Your Neighbor?"

Sermon (9.7 MB)

Rev. William Sinkford
(President of UUA)
1-22-06 "Following the Principles We Claim to Hold"

Sermon (14.2 MB)

Robert Jensen, Ph.D.
1-15-06 "A Fierce Faith"

Sermon (11.8 MB)

Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-24-05 "Imaginations of Radical Love" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-18-05 "Friends: Because the Heart Cannot Live Without Intimacy" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-04-05 Deeper Into Community Rev. Sharon Dittmar
11-27-05 "Pedaling for Peace of Mind: Lessons from a X-Country Bicycle Ride"  

Alphonse A. Gerhardstein

11-13-05 "It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
11-6-05 Frank Homan Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-16-05 "We've come A Long Way Baby: UUs and the GLBT Movement" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-9-05 "I Do:  Sort Of)" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-2-05 "My Spiritual Journey" Gene Chung
9-25-05 It's in the Living: Lessons on Dying Rev. Sharon Dittmar
9-18-05 The Legacy of Spinoza Rev. Sharon Dittmar
9-11-05 In The Beginning... Rev. Sharon Dittmar
8-28-05 Victorian Reform and Revolt: The Life of Florence Nightingale Rev. Sharon Dittmar
8-21-05 The Summer In Brief: All the News That's Fit to Preach Rev. Sharon Dittmar
6-19-05 Proclaiming UU Values in Cincinnati Rev. Sharon Dittmar
6-5-05 Revisioning Anger Rev. Sharon Dittmar
5-29-05 We Are The Flame Rev. Sharon Dittmar
5-22-05 The Sweet Life Rev. Sharon Dittmar
5-1-05 Integration Where It Counts Rev. Sharon Dittmar
4-24-05 "Adam's Story" Personal Story of Oppression
4-17-05 How Green Is Your Garden? Rev. Sharon Dittmar
4-10-05 What Is Theism? Rev. Sharon Dittmar
3-20-05 "I Will Not Obey By God" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
3-13-05 Ask Not What Your Congregation Can Do For You Rev. Sharon Dittmar
1-30-05 Kindness Rev. Sharon Dittmar
1-16-05 Race in America's Past and Future H. Alexander Wise, Jr.
1-9-05 Oh Freedom Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-24-04 Who Can We Follow? Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-19-04 Winter Solstice:  Gateway to The Year Rev. Sharon Dittmar
12-05-04 Articulating Your Faith Rev. Sharon Dittmar, plus 3 church members
11-28-04 We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For Megan Joiner
11-21-04 With Gratitude Rev. Sharon Dittmar
11-14-04 Dear Democrats and Republicans...You Called? Rev. Sharon Dittmar
11-04-04 Sermon in Honor of the Repeal of Article XII Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-24-04 The Dilemma of Democracy Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-17-04 The Optional (?) "Ism" Rev. Sharon Dittmar
10-03-04 Common Dreams Rev. Hal Porter
9-26-04 Trusting Space Rev. Sharon Dittmar
9-19-04 We Are All Failures Rev. Sharon Dittmar
8-29-04 Acceptance & Tolerance in Unitarian Universalism Elizabeth Goldsmith
6-13-04 Is America a Christian Nation? Rev. Sharon Dittmar
5-9-04 A Theology of Parenting Rev. Sharon Dittmar
5-2-04 Everything Comes in Season Rev. Sharon Dittmar
4-4-04 Peter's Window Walter Herz
3-28-04 Legacy of the Popes R