“The Innkeeper’s Tale” On this annual pageant Sunday, the congregation is invited into full participation as the enduring story of the baby’s birth is told. The tale of the foreign young couple being turned away is also a story to explore in this moment in time. Participation by volunteers is asked for in the moment … Continue reading Pageant: The Innkeeper’s Tale
On this Music Sunday we will hear The Ballad of the Brown King, a cantata written by Margaret Bonds with a libretto by Langston Hughes. This piece looks at the Christian nativity story from the perspective of Balthazar, the “brown king”, who came from Arabia or Ethiopia. It is a really rich piece musically, rewarding … Continue reading Music Sunday: The Ballad of the Brown King
As human beings, we engage in a lot of doing in our day to day lives. This Sunday, we will explore the spirituality of being and ways to cultivate a state of being in the midst of doing. Following the worship service, there will be a conversation in the parlor. A State of Being December … Continue reading A State of Being
Last Sunday, we explored how there are many ways for human beings to relate to the land upon which they live. This service will consider this further, reflecting on what it would be like to act out of the spiritual understanding that we belong to the earth; the earth does not belong to us. This … Continue reading We Belong to the Earth
As we near the 400th anniversary of the landing at Plymouth Rock next year, the book An Indigenous History of the United States (this year’s UUA’s Common Read) invites us to consider the history of this nation beyond “the first” settlers and “the last” Native Americans. This service will point to the possibilities for hope … Continue reading A Doctrine of Recovery: Decolonizing the Collective Mind
This Sunday, in honor of Veterans Day, we will welcome guest speaker Pete Rogers into the pulpit. After 40 years of silence and shame, Pete publicly “came out” as a veteran of the Vietnam War 10 years ago. Since then he has been telling his story to high school students in central Massachusetts – as … Continue reading How War Teaches Forgiveness
The ancients remind us that this time of year is when “the veil is thinnest between the living and the dead.” In our annual Remembrance Service, we will honor both our beloved dead and those whose legacy includes pain and unfinished business. WUS friend and genealogist D. Andrews will invite us into ways we can … Continue reading “A Different Kind of Magic:” A Service of Remembrance
This Sunday, we welcome into our pulpit the Rev. Tom Rosiello, Minister Emeritus of the First Parish Church of Stow and Acton and current minister of the UU Fellowship of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. In this month of exploring “belonging,” he will speak to how the current climate regarding immigration in the US is … Continue reading Caminamos Juntos: We Walk Together
Unitarian Universalism is not “creedal but covenantal,” meaning that we are held together not by shared belief but by promises. We make promises about how we will behave with each other and how we will companion one another through life. We make promises to the wider world. Everyone knows what a promise is but sometimes … Continue reading “Show Us How to Love”: Living in Covenant
Wave after wave of immigrants have come to America. Opening our country’s doors and welcoming people from other parts of the world who are seeking freedom and dreaming of a better life is part of America’s identity. Supporting a positive experience for immigrants who come to the United States is part of Winchester Unitarian Society’s … Continue reading Welcoming the Stranger: the “oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions”
