But What Can We Do? - Sept. 22, 2019
on September 22nd, 2019
Despair is solitary. Hope is communal. Hope depends on community and on compassion. Both words begin with the same prefix, “com” meaning with. “Community” refers to individuals coming together, while compassion means to suffer with, to feel another’s pain as if it were your own. We act when we feel and when we know we are not alone. And that’s when things begin to happen. ... ... Read More
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Weekly What's Happening September 18, 2019
on September 18th, 2019
Read about Blue Boat Coffeehouse, Notes from the Music Director, and Religious Education:... Read More
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What's the Story? - Sunday, September 15, 2019
on September 18th, 2019
As we begin this worship series Cherishing the Earth and Ourselves, I invite you to consider the stories we tell about the earth and how those stories shape our understanding of our relationship to our planet home. So today I have three stories for you..... Read the stories and the rest of the sermon here:... Read More
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RE Update for September 15, 2019
on September 12th, 2019
RE kicks off this Sunday with all new classes! Read all about it here:... Read More
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Weekly What's Happening September 11 - September 21
on September 11th, 2019
Read about our new worship series Cherishing the Earth and Ourselves, our Religious Education program and Vigil for Children in Detention:... Read More
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Weekly What's Happening September 4 - September 14, 2019
on September 4th, 2019
Read about Minister's Community Office Hours, Vigil for Children in Detention, and "Fididdle" for a Nautical Christmas Fair:... Read More
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Weekly What's Happening August 28 - September 8, 2019
on August 28th, 2019
Read about Womensphere Retreat, Overdose Awareness Service and Men's Ministry:... Read More
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Weekly What's Happening August 14 - 24
on August 14th, 2019
Read about Overdose Awareness Sunrise Service, September Book Discussion and Religious Education:... Read More
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"Through Hardship to the Stars : Per Aspera Ad Astra" by Brian Sutton - August 11, 2019
on August 14th, 2019
"The point I want to make is that throughout this church year I am dedicating myself to the spirit of "Through sweat to the stars" as a member of First Parish, to "Our Vision," and I invite all of us to do the same. This is not a call to sign up for bottle duty, committees, coffee hour, coffee house, or weeding, and so on. I have confidence that all those and more will happen.... Instead of a call... Read More
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Weekly What's Happening August 7-17
on August 7th, 2019
Read about Sunrise Service for Overdose Awareness, Planning for Sacred Earth, Sacred Work and more:... Read More
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"Cosmic Webs" by Kate Glennon - July 28, 2019
on August 1st, 2019
This summer all these services and the poetry have touched on that power that the visible stars have to make us know our humble place and our limited time. But that night, for me, for the first time, the elevator-drop feeling melted into something different. The night sky no longer felt scary, it didn't seem cold and eternal and lifeless.I felt like I was being embraced, sort of. Like I was still ... Read More
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Weekly What's Happening July 31-August 10
on July 31st, 2019
Read about September Community Book Discussion here:... Read More
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