Religious Exploration- Welcome everyone to a brand new year! 2019 brings with it new themes in learning and exploration for the children of First Parish. January heralds in a month of Grace, but what exactly is Grace? Defined, it is to do honor or credit to something...
For December our topic will be The Value of Community. 18 years ago the first incarnation of the FPS Salon read and discussed the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam. In 2003 he wrote Better Together: Restoring the...
Religious Exploration & Spirit Play - The month of December brings with it a theme of peace and the planning of the annual children and families Christmas Eve service! This month, the children have begun to choose which roles they would like to fill that evening...
This has been postponed till Jan 19 due to the Nancy Moore memorial service. All who are interested are welcome to come on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 10am the Spirituality Book Group is meeting to discuss "Madame Blavatsky : the mother of modern spirituality" by Gary...
Religious Exploration & Spirit Play - This week is revels! All of our Spirit Play and Explorers children will be joining the congregation in the sanctuary for this fun and festive intergenerational service. The nursery will be offered downstairs in SED room one as...
Religious Exploration & Spirit Play - The month of November brings with it giving thanks and being grateful as we explore the Thanksgiving season. Inspiring one person to change can change the world, and it is these small changes that we strive for every day. I...
Religious Exploration & Spirit Play - This week's religious exploration class is for everyone! We will meet in the SED classroom to participate in an exciting activity: role reversal day! At the beginning of the year when we all sat down together to write out our...
Inspired by world events and our mid term elections, our November dialogue topic will be "The Crisis of Liberal Democracy". From Wikipedia: Liberal democracy is a liberal political ideology and a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the...
Religious Exploration & Spirit Play - This week's religious exploration class is for everyone! We will meet in the SED classroom to do a UU principle formation activity involving familiarizing ourselves with the UU principles as well as forming our own individual...
All who are interested are welcome to come on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 10am the Spirituality Book Group is meeting to discuss "Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery" by Starhawk. Starhawk is a peace activist and leader in feminist/Goddess...