CERSI 2024 – PennWest
Unlikely Superheroes: Skills for practicing faith and ethics in tough times
Theme Speaker: Rev. Julian Soto
SI Chair – Patricia Boughton
CERSI 2023 – PennWest
The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: Preemptive Racial Inclusion and Practices for Witness, Self Examination and Change
Theme Speaker: CB Beal
SI Chair – Dana Wakefield
CERSI 2022 – Cal U
Question the Unquestionable and Answer the Unanswerable
Theme Speaker: Kazim Ali
SI Chair – Carolyn Stevens
CERSI 2021 – Online
Food for the Soul
No Theme Speaker
SI Chair – Susan Roscigno
CERSI 2020 – Online
Summer Insitute
No Theme Speaker
SI Chair – Cal Frye
OMDSI 2010 – Kenyon College
Our Stories, Ourselves, Seeking….
Theme Speaker – Odds Bodkin
SI Chair – Jay Randall
Slideshow
OMDSI 2009 – Kenyon College
One Faith, Many Voices
Theme Speaker – Thandeka
SI Chair – John Rodeheffer
Slideshow
OMDSI 2008 – Kenyon College
Living Out Loud: Speaking Up As Religious Liberals
Theme Speaker – Meg Barnhouse
SI Chair – Dave Murray
Slideshow
OMDSI 2007 – Kenyon College
The Dharma of Living: The Ongoing Prescription for Happiness
Theme Speaker – Ven. Shih Ying-Fa, the Abbot of CloudWater Zendo and founder of the Zen Society of Cleveland
SI Chair – Amy Kent
OMDSI 2006 – Kenyon College
Befriending Nature: Enlarging Our Family of Belonging.
Theme Speaker – Rev. Gary Kowalski from Burlington, VT
SI Chair – Bob Erdman
OMDSI 2005 – Kenyon College
Building Faith: What’s in Your ToolBox
Theme Speaker – Rabbi David M. Horowitz
SI Chair – Dave Dunn
OMDSI 2004 – Kenyon College
UU 24/7
Theme Speaker – Aaron R. Payson
SI Chair – Dana Bjorkland
OMDSI 2003 – Kenyon College
Peace: In Your Soul, In Your World
Theme Speaker – Former UUA Moderator Denise Davidoff
SI Chair: Alison Melby & Marilyn Markovitch
OMDSI 2002 – Kenyon College
What Really Matters
Theme Speaker – UUA Moderator Diane Olson
SI Chairs: Bernie Siegel & John Marshall
OMDSI 2001 – Kenyon College
The Finding of Diversity in our Harmony
Theme Speaker -Rev. Bill Sinkford
SI Chair: Robin Herr
OMDSI 2000 – Kenyon College
Growing in the Spirit
Theme Speaker – Rev. Anthony Johnson
SI Chair: Lindsay Scott
OMDSI 1999 – West Liberty State College
The Beginning is Near
Theme Speaker -Rev. Roberta Finkelstein
SI Chair: Pat Lorei
OMDSI 1998 – West Liberty State College
A Sense of Place
Rev. Roger Brewin
SI Chair: Sam Hens-Greco
OMDSI 1997 – Bethany College
Sources of Hope
Theme Speaker – Meg Riley
SI Chair: Kate Greenfield
OMDSI 1996 – Bethany College
Theme: Olympics of the Spirit
Theme Speaker – Reverend Roy Phillips
SI Chair: Sibyl McNulty
OMDSI 1995 – Bethany College
Free to Be – Unitarian Universalist; Marching Toward a Multicultural Community
Theme Speaker ??
SI Chair: Michelle Radkin
OMDSI 1994 – Bethany College
Getting Serious About Unitarian Universalism
Reverend Scott Alexander
SI Chair Joel Slater
OMDSI 1993 – Bethany College
Speak to me, speak To me, speak to Me
Theme Speaker – Barbara Pescan
SI Chairs: Kathy Silver, Liz Miles, Becky Nero
OMDSI 1992 – Bethany College
Theme Quantum Leaping
Theme Speaker – Barbara Whitaker-Johns
SI Chair: Nancy Fitzgerald
OMDSI 1991 – Bethany College
West Virginia, Almost Heaven
Theme Speaker – Gary Smith
OMDSI 1990 – Bethany College
Give Me that Old Time Religion
Theme Speaker – Clarke Dewey Wells
OMDSI 1989
The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul
Theme Speaker: Gordon McKeeman
SI Chair: Dottie Clark
OMDSI 1988
Relearning the Language of Flowers
Theme Speaker: Til Evans
SI Chair: Midge Forman
OMDSI 1987
Journeys
Theme Speaker: Charles Stephen, Jr
SI Chair: Emily Curie, Midge Miles
OMDSI 1986
Partners in the Web of Life
Theme Speaker: Mark & Donna Morrison-Reed
SI Chair: Emily Curie
OMDSI 1985
…Within Myself an Invincible Summer
Theme Speaker: Caroline & Tom Owen-Towle
SI Chair: Karen Phillips
1984
GA was in Columbus
OMDSI 1983
From Our Hands…Affirmation and Confirmation
Theme Speaker: Kenneth R. Brown
SI Chair: Karen Phillips
OMDSI 1982
Reflections in a Living Glass
Theme Speaker: Forest Whitman
SI Chair:
OMDSI 1981
Dancing Over the Dark Abyss
Theme Speaker: Judith A. Urquhardt
SI Chair: Bonnie Stauffacher
OMDSI 1980
Believing, Belonging, Becoming
Theme Speaker: Chris Raible
SI Chair: Barbara DeWolfe
OMDSI 1979
I Am…We Are All in This Together
Theme Speaker: Dorothy Spoerl
SI Chair: Nancy Lee
