HAPPY EASTER. Split Plate: Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Please give generously. Your offering will benefit the great work of this organization and First Parish Unitarian Universalist. Make checks out to FPBUU with the service date on the memo line. Please write a separate check for pledge payments. If you are not able to join … Continue reading “Israeli feta, Turkish coffee and the conversation of a lifetime.”
Sometimes, the best advice on living with intention and joy comes in unlikely forms. This time, from one of my all-time favorite animation films. I’ve corralled a few parishioners into watching it, who then completed a spiritual assignment that ultimately informs this sermon. While it may seem like a shallow premise, trust me, their wisdom … Continue reading “From Shell to Core,”
We have likely all heard the joke. What happens when you play a country song backwards? Well, you get your wife back, your job back and you sober up! It’s a pretty apt and funny joke, and yet. . .pop country and some of the new singer/songwriters, have a very humble, poignant and … Continue reading “The Theology of Country Music – Kasey Musgrave’s Style.”
Music Sunday: Trusting in the Light – As the light increases, let’s celebrate and appreciate music about light. Join us for a creative service of poetry and music by choir, handpans, and other ensembles and musicians. The choir will sing a world premiere of a very special song inspired by light! Split Plate Offering: Mass Trans Political … Continue reading Music Sunday
“Trust is important, but it is also dangerous.” So says the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. How do we manage trust to strengthen the relationships it engages while navigating the dangers of trusting? Join Worship Associate Elenita Muñiz and our retiring Administration and Finance Director Karena Stroh as we examine two case studies of trust challenged and … Continue reading A Commitment of the Heart
It has been said that trust is choosing to make something important to you vulnerable to the actions of others, built not in grand gestures but in the small moments that people treat what is important to you with loving care. Join Worship Leader Lindsey Straus as we explore the March worship theme of living … Continue reading Daring to Trust
Sometimes we convince ourselves that we know the answer to what is coming next in our life, with the accompanying nagging feeling that, this is not going to end well! And yet…could it be that it’s a little more fluid than we often think? And perhaps, just perhaps, not as dire. Split Plate: Community Action … Continue reading Maybe Not, Maybe So, We’ll See
Oh, Man, we have waited so long to have these two come together in holy matrimony. And now, of course, the date is upon us. Join me as we celebrate this union, committing ourselves to their well-being by giving our time, talent, and, oh indeed, my friends, our treasure!! They are very excited about the … Continue reading The Union of Dreams and Commitment
It’s been a rough couple of weeks. The policy changes from DC and authoritarian decrees issued that are cruel, aggressive, punitive, and far-reaching are indeed hard to sit with, much less process. And yet we must. The common good rests on our commitment to embody an inclusive way of being in the world, that ultimately … Continue reading How Not to Plunk Your Head in the Sand
What would it mean for us to get past our understanding of love in the conventional sense, love as only romantic, or platonic, or for family? A more inclusive and expansive understanding of love. Valentine’s Day demands a widening view to not only expand our hearts but others as well. Split Plate Offering: PFLAG … Continue reading A Drop in the Bucket – Love 2.0
