Best Hope for Global Crises - Professor William Greenway writes as a Christian, but argues that virtually all faith traditions, from Buddhism to Humanism to Wiccan, are rooted in agape—the reality of finding oneself seized by love for others. He claims this core reality, the reality of agape, offers our best chance as we face multiple global crises in the 21st century.

Come time travel with OHMF’s elders. This service bends time and space. Join us as our beloved elders share their thoughts, wisdom, and wishes with their own inner 8-year-old selves, who then share their own youthful musings with their elder selves.” Looking back over our lives, what could our elder selves share with our young selves? Thinking back, what could our younger selves share with our elder selves? Nuggets of wisdom will travel forwards and backwards in time.

Truth with a capital T used to be a topic for philosophers. But as fake news and alternative facts threaten our democracy, it’s become everyone’s concern. Veteran journalist Steve Brooks draws on psychology and neuroscience to illuminate how easily we deceive ourselves and suggests how each of us can put responsibility back into the free search for truth and meaning.

For those who hold liberal religious values, personal liberty is at the heart of religious freedom. Sometimes, however, personal freedom must give way to the interest of protecting and serving the common good. On Sunday, September 14, 2025, two dozen years after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City, Rev. Terry Cummings will reflect on the balance between ensuring public safety and ensuring personal freedom. She will consider the question whether having military troops patrolling our streets too high a price to pay

Can Mindfulness Help You Know Yourself Better When Someone You Trust Says You Don’t Have the Mental State You Think You Have? On August 24, 2025 James Kraft, PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Huston Tillotson University will help us explore the topic: "How we can know better through mindfulness our own mental states and those of others when disagreeing with them?” What a fascinating topic.

Rev. Fred Wooden returns to speak with us.

In these difficult times, many of us have grim thoughts about the future. Great poets have had similar fears and have said so eloquently. Yet they survived their bad times, and we can hope to survive ours.

The creative process, what is it? Whether you are a writer, singer, musician, gardener, speaker, painter, crafter, cook and other-we all tend to have a process that helps us move through to our end result. We have several of our OHM members to share and tell theirs.

A decade ago, liberal religion seemed to be winning the culture wars – until, suddenly, we weren’t. Why are we losing ground, even though polls show Americans support many of our values on diversity, gender, and democracy? Journalist and musician Steve Brooks looks at language: the ways we talk about our values. He suggests more plain-spoken communication could help bridge divides and turn the cultural tides.