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Below is a an archive of messages that have been offered by our Minister Donne Hayden. (Note: Audio files are MP3 files. To open PDF files, you must have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer. To do so, click here on Adobe Acrobat.)

| 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
2013
  April 21 Helpers
  April 14 What Does God Require of Us?
  April 7 under revision
  March 31 unprogrammed
  March 24 Rowing in the Now
  March 17 God in the Midst / In the Midst of God
  March 10 none
  March 3 A Cross to my Conscience
2012
  Sep. 23 Dealing With the Darkness
  April 22 The Faith of a Butterfly- A Surrender to Love (audio) by Katie Heath The Faith of a Butterfly- A Surrender to Love (pdf) by Katie Heath
  April 8 Easter Sunday Message by Sabrina Darnowski Easter Sunday Message (audio) by Sabrina Darnowski
  April 1 Palm Sunday Message by Jeff Arnold Palm Sunday Message (audio) by Jeff Arnold
  March 25 Facing Adversity - Written by Suzanne Johnson, Read by Karen Foster
2011
  Dec. 4 Giving and Receiving (audio file) Giving and Receiving (pdf)
  Sep. 11 Jeff Arnold, Guest Speaker, 9/11 (pdf)
  May 8 Mourning with the Mothers
  May 1 Paschal Mystery
  April 24 Getting Past Friday (audio file)
  April 17 Un-Garbling the Good News (audio file)
  April 10 Ambiguity & Jesus' Tears (audio file)
  April 3 Sighted vs. Seeing (audio file)
  March 27 Silence Is Counted Sweetest (audio file)
  March 20 Born From Above
  March 6 Mountaintops & "Thin Places" (pdf)
2010
  December 5 Friends & Secrets (pdf)
  November 28 Hitting "Pause" for Our Soul's Sake (pdf)
  November 14  
  November 7  
  October 31 unprogrammed worship
  October 24  
  October 23 We Really Can Have It Both Ways, Kalen Fristad, CUA Conference at Cincinnati Friends
  October 17

A Quaker / Universalist Convergence

  October 10 Blessed are the Weak
  October 3  
  September 26 Universalism Past, Present and Powerful, Kalen Fristad, guest speaker
  September 19 Atone? Who Me? What For?
  September 12  
  September 5 Skimming the Surface, Jeff Mays, guest speaker
  August 29 unprogrammed worship
  August 22  
  August 15 A Pez Dispenser God?
  August 8 Ancient Truths
  August 1 Rosalind the Obnoxious
  July 25 How Grace Works
  July 18 Paulette Meier, guest speaker, shared selections from new CD, Timeless Quaker Wisdom in Plainsong
  July 11 Creation Envy
  July 4 Friends & Universalist Christianity
  June 27 First Be Reconciled With Your Friend
  June 20 Testimony About Fathers & My Father, My God
  June 13 Redeeming the Power of God
  June 6 The Hidden Will of Us All
  May 23 A Full-Sized Soul
  May 16 unprogrammed worship - arrival of Donne's grandson!
  May 9 The Silence Makes Us Different
  May 2 For Goodness' Sake
  April 25 guest speaker
  April 18 The Prisoner's Dilemma
  April 11 In the Midst of Miracle
  April 4 If the Gnostics Had Prevailed
  March 28 Pride and Passover
  March 21 What Fruit Ye Bear To God
  March 14 Those Who Came Before Us (On the occasion of the 195th anniversary of Cincinnati Friends)
  March 7 Kingdom Come
  February 28 Still Wrestling After All These Years
  February 21 Elders and Mentors
  February 14

Luther & Virgil Talk about God, Gumballs, and Peaches (or Close Encounters with a Third Kind of Christianity)

  February 7 Permission to Shine
  January 31 unprogrammed worship
  January 24 A Hundred Handy Doubts
  January 17 Co-Authoring with the Divine
  January 10 Reverence: Reduced to Silence and Tears
  January 3 unprogrammed worship
2009
  December 27  
  December 20 But There Is No Peace
  December 13 An Imagined Pre-Christian Christmas Dialogue
  December 6 The Great Guide on the Side
  November 29 unprogrammed worship
  November 22 Drowned in Deeps of Quiet
  November 15 Points of Grace, Seeds of Awareness
  November 8

Of Vines and Branches - By Suzanne Johnson

  November 1 Perfect Love
  October 25 Meeting devoted to Music - no message
  October 18 Happy Among the Heretics
  October 11 Waiting for Discernment
  October 4 Seek First the Kingdom of God
  September 27 Prayer - Proceed With Caution
  September 20 Kenosis in Action
  September 13 Signs, Wonders, Miracles, and 9/11
  September 6 Of Dryness and Light: Preparing Ourselves for Worship
  August 30 unprogrammed worship
  August 23 The Eyes of Others
  August 16 Forgive Us Our Trash Baskets
  August 9 No Time But This Present Time
  August 2 The Good Samaritan, Again
  July 26 Deal with Jesus
  July 19 Found in Translation
  July 12 guest speaker
  July 5 guest speaker
  June 28 Having Faith in Failure
  June 21 Abraham: A Really Bad Dad?
  June 14 guest speaker
  June 7 Leaving Space
  May 31 unprogrammed worship
  May 24 God's Breath
  May 17 No Direction Home?
  May 10 The Line Drawn in the Sand
  May 3 guest speaker
  April 26 Do You Know Who You're Worshipping With?
  April 19 Rough and Homely Outside of Truth
  April 12 Nothing Gold Can Stay
  April 5 Tattered Outlaws of the Light
  March 29 unprogrammed Worship
  March 22 A Lizard by Day and by Night
  March 15 "Elemental" Friends
  March 8 What Binds Us Together
  March 1 Silence and Sabbath
  February 22 Listen and You Will Hear
  February 15 Eulogy for God's Pearls
  February 8 The Sum of Our Parts
  February 1 Big Questions
  January 25 Repairing the World
  January 18 Vessels of Clay
  January 11 Psalms for Our Times
  January 4 Matter-Made-Conscious
2008
  December 28 Extemporaneous Message
    (G)Awed
  December 21 Something Unexpected Happened
  December 14 Too Much Stuff; Not Enough Peace
  December 7 The Truth About Faith
  November 30 unprogrammed worship
  November 23 A Mindful Thanksgiving
  November 16 The Fearful Investors
  November 9 Worship in the Manner of Friends
  November 2 The "Creation" of Christ
  October 26

God Talk

  October 19 Christianity Rising: The Phoenix Affirmations
  October 12 Best Laid Plans
  October 5 Bearing the Beams of Love
  September 28

Quit Your Tents. Pray Without Ceasing

  September 21 Hearts of the World, Multiplied
  September 14 Choosing Spinach
  September 7 Re-forming Women
  August 31 Close Encounters of the Vocal Kind
  August 24 Multiple Gifts of Ministry
  August 17 Those Pesky Red Letters in the Parables
  August 3 Perfectly Imperfect

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