Who we are

Welcome to First Parish Dorchester, our Unitarian Universalist religious community. We welcome you, whoever you are, whatever tradition, gender, race, class, sexual identity, ability or age you represent. May you grow in the ways of respect, service, and wholeness. And through all your days may you know that you are loved.

To accomplish our mission we offer programs for worship, religious education, fellowship, community service, and social justice, in collaboration with private and public organizations to serve Dorchester and the larger world.

We are brave, curious, and compassionate thinkers and doers. We are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history and spirituality, but aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. We have a track record of standing on the side of love, justice, and peace.

We need not think alike to love alike. We are people of many beliefs and backgrounds: people with a religious background, people with none, people who believe in a God, people who don’t, and people who let the mystery be.

We are Unitarian Universalist and Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Humanist, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, atheist and agnostic, believers in God, and more.

On the forefront of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer inclusion for more than 40 years, we are people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

We welcome you: your whole self, with all your truths and your doubts, your worries and your hopes. Join us on this extraordinary adventure of faith. Get involved!