Archives: Services

A Flexible Certainty

UU belief and UU practice have a certain relationship of disjunction. We have some idiosyncratic ways of bringing faith and works into alignment, but they are also distinctive strengths if we grasp the need for pragmatism in our certainties. Religious Education offered for children. 

Granite Statues, Feet of Clay

Who gets a statue in a public place, and why? Who doesn’t, and how do they feel about that? How does an artifact on display have meaning? Whose meaning should it be and why does that matter? Bill is on our Worship and Music Committee. Religious Exploration offered for children. 

All Hat (and No Cattle)

Ministry is not a profession for the shy or uncertain – not, at least, for those who can’t adapt to the demands of public leadership. Here are some thoughts about what to expect in the way of adaptation, and how to consider it healthy – or not. Religious Exploration offered for children

Groundhog Day-after

Bill Murray and Andi McDowell’s famous movie was released in 1993. We likely got the joke a long time ago. But after 25 years, what happens to us on Feb. 3, the day after Groundhog Day? The groundhog goes home – where do we go? Religious Exploration offered for children.

Special Service

Elvis Hedji, who is from Sudan, will be our guest speaker on behalf of the Humanity Helping Sudan Project. Religious Education offered for children.

Gilded Splinters

“Winner-take-all” is one increasingly common description of American society. Few experts dispute the chasm of inequality, but fewer agree what might heal it. Is it a fault in our stars or in our systems? Or is it a grudge birthed in darker places? Religious Exploration offered for children.

Denying the Dream

It is risky to channel historic figures into the present day, but there are good reasons to pause and reflect this Martin Luther King Sunday on what Dr. King might say about dehumanization and scapegoating of other people. He was pretty clear. Religious Exploration offered for children.

A 2018 Janus Service

The holidays fade, the New Year begins, the depth of winter comes–and our feelings may be ambivalent. This Sunday we will have rituals of Endings and Beginnings, letting go of what must now be past and welcoming our hopes and dreams for 2018. Religious Exploration offered for children.

Looking Both Ways – CANCELLED

Please join Kay Bennett in the Vestry at 10:00 a.m. for a period of reflection on your past year and your hopes for 2018. No Religious Exploration. No Little Lights childcare.

Faith and its Discontents

More people in New England than anywhere else in the US now tell pollsters they are “not clear on the concept.” Many don’t care to be – and many UUs got to there first. Some have good reasons – but will reason sustain our lives?