In our work resisting empire and injustice, it is crucial that we go slow, stay steady and persistent and stick together with our beloveds. Our outrage and sense of urgency can be powerful and compelling, and it can get in the way of the real work that needs to be done. As we wind down … Continue reading “Slow. Steady. Together.”
Trust is a gentle thing it is hard to build and takes nurturing to keep. However, there are ways we offer our trust every day to strangers without thinking about it. To the train conductor, other cars on the road, the strangers we walk beside, and so many more. There are also ways we take … Continue reading “Learning to Trust”
Our people and our congregation are becoming ever more fired up to change the world. To create the beloved community. It will require an organized and heart centered resistance to do so. We are building a space where people can ground their justice work spiritually. Where people can receive the sustenance they need to keep … Continue reading “The Resistance Must Be Fully Resourced”
Every moment is a chance to start fresh. To be reborn. And it is not that easy. It is quite painful in fact to shed your skin and to tenderly deliver yourself into a new form. We have to die a million deaths in order to birth ourselves anew. This Easter, let us celebrate the … Continue reading “The First Green Blade”
This year’s Transgender Day of Visibility comes in the wake of many states launching devastating and scary attacks on the rights of transgender folks. Our siblings are scared and angry and weary. So in the midst of our celebration of the existence of trans and gender expansive folks, and the gifts that they are to … Continue reading “Siblings”
Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen is a Midwesterner at heart, lives in Massachusetts and is learning all the time about liberation, solidarity, courage, and cowardice. She is a Unitarian Universalist minister and a Migrant Justice Organizer with Community Justice Exchange and previously did faith-based justice work and youth organizing. So often it’s not clear what healing is … Continue reading “Healing is Banana Pancakes”
For 393 years faithful folks have stewarded this institution with great love. For the last 3 years we have been figuring out how to create community in the midst of a global pandemic – and the story of FPD has long been one of figuring things out and creating community amidst struggle and difficulty. Join … Continue reading “Our Ancestors Diligent Dreamings”
Life is vulnerable. Many of us are vulnerable every day in real, stressful ways. We strive, in vain, to keep ourselves safe. To protect our tender hearts. Join us as we seek to dance with our vulnerabilities. To allow ourselves to risk being more real with each other. To shed the armor that we think … Continue reading “Vulnerable”
What happens if we are able to love not just strangers, but also opponents? How do we do that while maintaining boundaries and self respect? We believe that everyone is worthy of love, even those who cause harm. Join us as we explore the power in a love ethic that extends even to those that … Continue reading “Loving Even Them”
“We are pregnant with freedom” says Assata Shakur. We are birthing a new world together. And it is a labor of love. It is painful and beautiful and complicated. There are times to breathe and gather ourselves. There are times to push like our lives depend on it – because they do. Join us as … Continue reading “A labor of Love”
