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UUCCI
by Rev. Nic Cable
Listen to highlights from previously recorded services from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbus, IN
Episodes
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The Waterways of Love
Our Annual Water All-Ages Communion Service will feature a mingling of the waters of our community. Each person is welcome to bring some water from their home or a special place in their lives (water will also be provided) to a common bowl and together we will reflect on the ways love can hold us...
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Spiritual But Not Religious? Just Want Community? and Other Reasons You May Come to UUCCI
How did we all get here? Some thing or things, life events or circumstances shaped our journeys to get here. So how do we talk about these different paths, expand them so more can find this community, and continue to thrive as we live out our values in the world? Rev. Nic will share insights from...
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What's UU? A BOLD-acious Attempt to Explain Unitarian Universalism in One Hour
For even seasoned Unitarian Universalists, the question about what UU is can be a bit difficult to explain. Why is this? How can we find greater clarity and confidence in explaining to others about what you do on Sunday mornings? Rev. Nic will take the challenge and share some ways he thinks…
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A Journey Come Full Circle - Jennifer Schall
This episode is the audio version of the recent video produced for the 7th Annual Tapestry Film Festival. This particular thread focuses on the life of Jennifer Schall. You can watch the entire UU Tapestry Project at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_U9HrR_1SwsJBcCEwZxP2uSy6gqzrLLG.
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I've Got Something To Say - Vivianne Leland
This episode is the audio version of the recent video produced for the 7th Annual Tapestry Film Festival. This particular thread focuses on the life of Vivianne Leland. You can watch the entire UU Tapestry Project at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_U9HrR_1SwsJBcCEwZxP2uSy6gqzrLLG.
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This is My Song - Jenny Heichelbech
This episode is the audio version of the recent video produced for the 7th Annual Tapestry Film Festival. This particular thread focuses on the life of Jenny Heichelbech. You can watch the entire UU Tapestry Project at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_U9HrR_1SwsJBcCEwZxP2uSy6gqzrLLG.
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We All Need Community - Erin Leland
This episode is the audio version of the recent video produced for the 7th Annual Tapestry Film Festival. This particular thread focuses on the life of Erin Leland. You can watch the entire UU Tapestry Project at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_U9HrR_1SwsJBcCEwZxP2uSy6gqzrLLG.
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Pet Sunday: A Celebration of the Wild Within and Among Us
Pet Sunday is a fun service where we celebrate our connection to animals both who live in our homes and in nature. We honor the interdependent web of all existence and will look to the special blessings pets play in making life meaningful and loving. Everyone is welcome to bring their pet (dog,...
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On Embodied Peacebuilding
Peace is a practice. It's something we do, not just an aspiration we hope will someday manifest. How then do we DO peace? What actions do we take? What do we mean by the word "practice" and what are the implications of living into the idea of peace-as-practice vs peace-as-aspiration. How do we...
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Stewards of Sacred Land
Our Imagine 2030 plan calls us to be stewards of sacred land. How can we care for the lands upon which we gather while also being mindful of the legacy and present day realities of native peoples in this country? Rev. Nic will conclude this three part series with a deeper look at our role as...
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Beacon Interfaith Dialogue: Indigenous Wisdom Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Many non-indigenous people know very little about the everyday life of Native Americans in this country. As we continue our three part series on Indigenous Wisdom, Peoples, and Traditions, Rev. Nic will welcome two friends into dialogue around present day realities of Native Americans and how we...
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Being White on the Good Red Road
During this service we will reflect on whiteness as related to the study and practice of Indigenous spiritual traditions. Should white people practice these traditions? If so, how do we do so in a respectful, non-colonial way? If not, how do we still support Indigenous people in their struggle…
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Do UUs Celebrate Easter?
Each spring, Unitarian Universalists are asked to consider the meaning of Easter. Sometimes, the Sunday in question is turned into a reflection on spring and rebirth of nature, othertimes it can be a poetry-based service. But what do UUs believe about Easter, one might ask. This year, Rev. Nic…
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Next Steps Forward
On the last weekend of March, we will be welcoming Rachel Maxwell (she/they) of Stewardship for Us to UUCCI to listen deeply to our congregation’s stories, hopes, worries, and vision for the community we are becoming. During this Sunday Service, Rev. Nic and Rachel will discuss the idea of...
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On Original Sin and Basic Goodness
Regardless of our relationship with Christianity we in the Western Hemisphere still often carry the psychospiritual wounding associated with the idea of original sin. Is a reframe of this belief possible? If so, how do we do it, and what happens to our lives when we do?
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Longing to Belong
We all long to belong somewhere in this life, in this universe. What does it feel like when we don't belong? What does it feel when we do? Rev. Nic will reflect on the essential human need for belonging and how UUCCI is one space that can be a home for diverse peoples who long for connection…
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In Praise of Mending
We welcome longitme UUCCI friend and author Scott Russell Sanders to discuss the different ways humans can fix and mend things, and how in collaboration with nature we can continue this much needed work in the world. He will share an excerpt from his new book project, "In Praise of Mending" and...
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Life is Sweet: On Valentine's Day and Other Annoying Holidays
So what do we make of this dubious enterprise we call Valentine's Day? What's its origin? Does it hold any truth or is it just another Madison Avenue generated Hallmark holiday used to peddle sugar? What about love? In the dating app age of 'always connected but not connected at all' how do we do...
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Super Salad Bowl Sunday
Generationally, the metaphor of the "melting pot" of the United States has shifted to that of the "salad bowl". How can the difference between the two shape our understanding of pluralism, community building, and of our fragile democracy? Rev. Nic will discuss the delicious salad we can prepare...
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Beacon Interfaith Dialogue: Christianity and Unitarian Universalism
The Beacon Interfaith Dialogues are special services devoted to dialogue between Rev. Nic and someone who represents a different religious, spiritual, or philosophical tradition. It is an opportunity to learn about our differences and to build bridges toward common understanding. This service…
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There's a Cap for That!
At the 2025 Auction, Dick Wiley purchased the rights to select a sermon topic for Rev. Nic. He chose the book Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono. Rev. Nic will plumb this classic text to see what wisdom and direction it can offer us as we continue into a new year together. 0:11 - Opening Words:...
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Dreaming of Ashes
Service Description for January 4, 2026: As we ring in the New Year, we begin again in love the work of justice and of being the progressive religious community the world needs us to be. The Fire Communion service will help mark the beginning of our next chapter of shared ministry, where we will...
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2025 Question Box Sermon
Every year, Rev. Nic leads a service that includes the mysterious Question Box. Those in attendance can submit any questions they want about subjects ranging from theology, history, ethics, politics, and personal curiosities, which Rev. Nic will collect during the service and answer during his...
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Coming of Age, Again and Again and Again
This service is from Sunday, August 17, 2025. Here is the description for the service: It is sometimes easy to think that the most profound moments in our lives happen in our formative years as children and youth. However, we are in fact always "Coming of Age" throughout our lives. In fact, as we...
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Joy and Woe are Woven Fine
William Blake suggested that "Joy and woe are woven fine. A clothing for the soul divine." In the turbulent times in which we are living, it is important to be among those who honor your joy and your woe, your happiness and your sorrow. For it is in that recognition of the "clothing" we wear that...
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Meeting the Moment
The theme for the 2025 General Assembly of the UUA was Meet the Moment. In every era, we must ask whether we were made for times such as these. Unitarian Universalists hold a bone-deep belief in our human capacity to rise to meet the needs of the day. However, this requires us to be deliberate in...
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Our Interfaith Journey
Charlie Wiles returns after many years to share insights from his interfaith journey. Charlie is the Director Emeritus for the Center of Interfaith Cooperation. He previously ran the Peace Learning Center. He will address identity, different faith communities, objectives, strategies and tactics…
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Pet Sunday
Pet Sunday is a fun service where we celebrate our connection to animals both who live in our homes and in nature. We honor the interdependent web of all existence and will look to the special blessings pets play in making life meaningful and loving. Everyone is welcome to bring their pet (dog,...
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Beacon Interfaith Dialogue With Srikanth Padmanhaban
Beacon Interfaith Dialogues are services that bring together Rev. Nic with a member of our interfaith community to engage in dialogue and shared learning. This Sunday, we welcome Srikanth Padmanhaban who has been a member of the Columbus community for over thirty years. He is one of the founders...
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I Know This Rose Will Open
Every year, Unitarian Universalists celebrated Flower Communion in which everyone is invited to bring a flower from their garden or the store. Rev. Nic will collect these flowers in a common space and everyone will be able to go home with a different flower symbolizing the beauty and diversity of...
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Shared Sacred Space: The Unimaginable Next Frontier
Star Trek and other stories that explore space have opened new frontiers into our imagination and wonder about life and the great unknown. How might Star Trek illuminate the great unfolding and journey we are on today as we foster shared sacred space not out beyond the sun, but deep within our…
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The Superhero Trap
Heroes and superheroes have captured the imagination of people and cultures for generations, even millennia. How does the notion of heroes shape our imaginations and sense of responsibility as Unitarian Universalists. Rev. Nic will talk about the potential superhero trap and how we can avoid it…
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Call This Place Acorn
Octavia Butler is considered the mother of afrofuturism, a genre of science fiction developed by, about, and for primarily African Americans in the United States. In her essential two part Earthseed Chronicles, Butler introduces the reader to a young girl who envisions a new religion, a new...
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May the Force of Love Be With You
Join Rev. Nic Cable and Adrienne Summerlot for this all ages service. Together we will lean into the lessons we learn from Star Wars. How do we center ourselves in the force of love, welcome resistance as a spiritual practice, and find the support we need to live into our values as Unitarian...
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Unraveling Our Religious Pasts, Weaving Our Religious Futures
Throughout April, we are discussing the importance of looking at our religious journeys in light of where we are today and where we home to go tomorrow. Whether one idetifies as "Unitarian Universalist" or not, the reality is we are each in a continuous state of reformation of what we believe…
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Like a Phoenix from the Fire
While the vast majority of Unitarian Universalists may not identify as Christian today, most were once involved one way or another with the Christian tradition. UUism likewise as a religion has historical roots in the liberal edge of the Christian reformation. With the personal and religious...
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The Storm is Passing Over
In Judaism, the holiday of Passover commemorates the liberation of the Hebrew community from slavery in Egypt. In the face of modern struggle, this ancient, timeless story can offer insight for our continued movement through the storms of life. Rev. Nic will explore its lasting message for each…
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Peace as a Path of Resistance
Rev. Laura Bethany Buchleiter is a spiritual director, speaker, writer, advocate, and consultant. She has over 30 years of experience in various Christian ministry settings. She speaks on topics ranging from gender identity and sexual orientation to self-care and wellness. In all her work Laura...
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Beacon Dialogue: Finding Common Ground
The vision of UUCCI is "To be a beacon for diverse religious thought and courageous action." With the continued development of the interfaith campus and the growth of programs and opportunities for engagement with our interfaith partners, we are beginning a new opportunity for shared learning....
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Hope Springs Eternal
In our lives, we sometimes experience Winters that seem as though they may never end, especially in Indiana. To celebrate the beginning of Spring, we will explore hope as a spiritual practice, and consider how we can embrace being sowers of seeds, eternal optimists, or just plain stubborn in the...
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Youth Truth: Climate Change - Imagine 2040
This is the once-a-year chance for our youth to take over the service and share with you the issues that are important to them. It allows them to explore some of the things they navigate in their everyday lives, and to look at them through the lens of our UU values. This year, they have chosen...
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Loving from the Margins
When we are invited to put love at the center, we may be curious to ask some follow-up questions. What was previously at the center of Unitarian Universalism? Or how do we articulate or travel the radius and circumnavigate the circle to understand the wider ecosystem of our spiritual and ethical...
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Love in the Breakdown
As a non-creedal tradition that values our diverse religious orientations, we are faced with the inevitable strain, conflict, and breakdown within our personal relationships, UUCCI community, and broader interfaith partnerships. How do we navigate love in the breakdown? What can love teach us in...
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What's Love Got To Do with It?
While Unitarian Universalists talk a whole lot about love, what do we really mean by it? As we are called to put Love at the Center, we will explore the breadth, depth, and meaning of love as a spiritual tool for living in our world today.
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Living and Loving from the Rough
We begin the 2025 Winter Sermon Series titled "Love at the Center" with grounding from our Unitarian Universalist history. Speifically, we will pick up the five smooth stones and five jagged rocks as articulated and inspired by James Luther Adams to aid us in centering love as we live through…
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Families Under Pressure How Can We Build a Village ?
In 2024 the U.S Surgeon General released an advisory on the mental health and well being of parents. As Unitarian Universalists we agree that raising children is sacred work and we all have a role as we honor and affirm in baby and children’s dedication ceremonies. Now, we are being called to...
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How Did We Get Here? Toxic Misogyny, Mindful Masculinity, and the Road Before Us
UUs have been in the struggle for gender equality for decades. With the rise and election of incarnate toxic masculinity, the continued legal attacks on women and trans people, and the regressive discourse on gender in public schools and youth sports, we are invited to consider a sometimes...
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Resilience, Courage, and Love: Three Sparks to Set the World on Fire
UUs have been in the struggle for gender equality for decades. With the rise and election of incarnate toxic masculinity, the continued legal attacks on women and trans people, and the regressive discourse on gender in public schools and youth sports, we are invited to consider a sometimes...
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The Gospel According to Dolly: An All Ages Service
Unitarian Universalists are invited to connect with our sources to ground us and sustain us in ordinary, difficult, and joyous times. Grateful for the experiences that move us, aware of the religious ancestries we inherit, and enlivened by the diversity which enriches our faith, we are called to...
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Glimmers in the Darkness Help us Find Light in the New Year
At this time of year we find ourselves reflecting and dreaming. We want to welcome you into this space and time to celebrate the little glimmers and the moments where you felt supported. We also need to acknowledge the challenges we have faced and continue to carry into the next year.…
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