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
Feeling Lost? Confused by the twists of the world, and not sure where you’re going? You do not journey alone. In this service, we will move through the ancient spiritual practice of walking the labyrinth. It is a path of constant twists and turns, that can be disorienting, but which is always moving towards a … Continue reading To the Center
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
In A Theology of Play, Jürgen Moltmann writes that “liberation from the bonds of the present system of living takes place by playing games.” In this service, we will experiment with how play can be a liberative practice to sustain our imagination and our struggle for justice. We will explore how play can assist us in creating … Continue reading Playing with Liberation
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
As we look forward to the coming church year, let us dream about what is possible. What are we building? What leaps of faith are we taking together? What might this “new way” look like? How are we learning from what has been? How is the building embodying the new way? We will welcome the … Continue reading A New Way
Our favorite songs, whoever the artist or whatever the style, were created in a strange alchemy of study and inspiration, of strict practice and of letting go. Spiritual Practice is a similar combination of dedication, muscle memory, and perhaps a little divine inspiration. Join us for a musical exploration of learning to risk, building the muscle memory of courage, and … Continue reading It Takes Practice
