The 7 Principles of Kwanzaa are significant because the remind people to value their history, culture and community. Celebrating history, culture and community is also foundational to Unitarian Universalism. If these core values are common to this holiday and our faith why is it we don’t know more or talk more about these principles? – … Continue reading Kwanzaa’s 7 Principles
Join us this Sunday for an all-ages service that never disappoints – our annual Paper Bag Pageant! It’s a raucous good time at the nativity in this fun, no-rehearsal Christmas pageant that includes everyone – babies, elders, and everyone in between. Costumes are provided, but feel free to come dressed in your favorite costume – … Continue reading Paper Bag Pageant
This special Music Sunday features the premiere of the Freedom and Democracy Suite by Music Director John Kramer. This five-movement cantata for choir, small ensemble, and soloists explores multiple aspects of our democratic experiment, how it has worked to expand rights for its citizenry, and how those rights are being threatened today. The work includes … Continue reading Music Sunday
People needing to leave their home countries for safety or for work is ongoing challenge experienced by our country and the broader world. Join us this Sunday as we deconstruct the “immigration” narrative and explore an approach to helping one another that is supported by our Unitarian Universalist values. Click here for: Sunday Worship Livestream Click … Continue reading Misplaced, Displaced, and Dehumanized
We are switching to a Zoom-only service because of the snow storm, and so instead of the youth-led service we had scheduled, or service this Sunday will reflect on how we find hope in the face of feeling hopeless, with all that is going on in our country and in the world. Click here for: … Continue reading Hope in the Face of Hopelessness
As we become increasingly aware of the darkness of the days, we pause this Sunday to reflect on our cultural practice of embracing light as good, and dark as bad. We’ll explore the roots of this cultural assumption, and reflect together on the magic, power, and beauty of darkness, on this Sunday after the darkest … Continue reading Embracing Dark, Embracing Light
Cornell West reminds us that “justice is what love looks like in public.” As we continue to explore “liberating love,” this service will draw from Jason Stanley’s “How Fascism Works” and Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” to consider what a public love, countering authoritarianism, looks like. Click here for: Sunday Worship Livestream Click here for: Order Of Service … Continue reading How Resistance Works
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
A Knock at the Door – Dec 3rd, 2017 December 3, 2017 “A Knock at the Door: Prayer, Hope, Love and the Fourth Source” The Rev. Heather Janules Before I begin, I wish to acknowledge our choir, unusually absent from the sanctuary. They are at the Arlington Street Church in Boston, joining their choir … Continue reading A Knock at the Door
