It is so tempting to surround ourselves with folks with whom we have a lot in common. And we miss out on so much when we create community in that way. Here, we attempt to create a community that celebrates difference! And where all people belong, even as we set boundaries around what behaviors we … Continue reading “To Love Alike”
Each year we gather together again to mark the start of the new church year in celebration of water. Water is life! It moves in and through us and all that is. This year, we will honor the ways in which water is dangerous and uncomfortable and inconvenient. We will celebrate the community of care … Continue reading “Sanctuary”
Have you ever encountered someone who was authentic and free in a way that inspired you to get more free or be more authentic? Have you noticed how freedom is contagious? Join us on this Juneteenth Sunday as we celebrate and honor the ways in which we free each other by freeing ourselves. Here’s the … Continue reading Free People Free People
We often talk about revolution as something that is loud and aggressive. But being a revolutionary is also quiet. We listen for the call of what is ours to do. We softly create spaces that foster revolutionaries, especially amongst our young folks. Sometimes our queer pride isn’t only about throwing bricks, it is also about … Continue reading Sounds Like a Whisper
In the midst of this world, how do we savor the blessings in our lives? How do we give and receive blessings in community? What does this moment in history teach us about how to live in exchange with the blessings around you? We will engage in the ritual of Flower Communion this week. Please … Continue reading Exchanging Blessings Now
Beauty surrounds us. And we can choose to nurture it and create more abundant beauty and love in the world. Or we can choose to perpetuate systems that create harm and inequity. Beauty exists all around us – alongside fear, greed and systems of oppression that seek to squander beauty. How might we do our … Continue reading Nurture Beauty
How we are with each other matters. We create and shape our communities in little moments. Join us for a celebration of all that is beautiful about community. We are in this together. And what we create here at First Parish ripples out into the world. This service will focus on sending peace to Ukraine, … Continue reading Nurturing Community
We have been in a long, difficult battle over the right to access safe and legal abortions in this country for some time. It has ramped up in the last decade or so. This week we learned that the war against Roe v. Wade will likely have a big victory that feels devastating. Join us … Continue reading Choice
There is enough joy for all of us. It is our birthright. It cannot be taken from us. Let us live into this abundance of joy in celebration of the rebirths of our lives. The unfolding that is happening around us. The striving towards goodness and wholeness that helps to build the beloved community. This … Continue reading Awakening Abundant Joy
We know that reconciliation with the earth is necessary to our continued existence. This service will celebrate our Transcendentalist forebears and their insistence that revelation remained ever unfolding, most clearly in the natural world. Join us as we reawaken and deepen our relationship with the beauty and wonder all around us and seek reconciliation for … Continue reading Wake to Wonder
