Service Descriptions

Joy

Joy

First, how is the “joy-quotient” in your life? Does it rise unbidden or can we affect its appearance in some ways? Second, the coupling of the words “politics” and “joy.” What a rare occurrence! This service will not be a partisan stance for one party or another, or...

Love & Transformation

Love & Transformation

At General Assembly in June, a new set of Unitarian Universalist values was voted into existence after a three-year long democratic process.” They are a current representation of what is central in our tradition. The values are Justice, Equity, Transformation,...

Ingathering Sunday 2024

Ingathering Sunday 2024

We look forward to coming together for our Ingathering Sunday service and water communion with Rev. Hepler! Please gather a small amount of water this summer to bring to the service. The water can be from dew on a flower, a garden hose, a friend's house, or any body...

Poetry Jam

Poetry Jam

Join us for our summer lay-led service with Sheila Murphy & Sherene Aram. Each year, we end our summer services with a Poetry Jam. Bring poems you have written or your faves from other poets. They can be contemporary, classic, serious, silly, or anything that you...

Bayesian Search for Truth & Meaning

Bayesian Search for Truth & Meaning

Join us in-person (only) for our summer lay-led service with Colin Warwick. This service is based on the book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll. The first step in answering Big Questions like “How should I live...

Swedenborg & Transcendentalism: A Joint Service

Swedenborg & Transcendentalism: A Joint Service

Join us for our summer lay-led service with Leslie Bryant. Join us for a shared service with the Swedenborg/New Church who share space at FPS.  Did you know that John Chapman (Johny Appleseed) was a Swedenborgian? Or that Emerson was influenced by Swednborg's...

LUGHNASADH

LUGHNASADH

Join us for LUGHNASADH, observance of the harvest and the declining light at this time of year. Our circle will welcome individuals talking about our individual spiritual connections with the Earth at harvest time or any time of the wheel of the year.  Coffee and...

Evangelicalism: From Jesus to Trump

Evangelicalism: From Jesus to Trump

Join us for our summer lay-led service with Joy Aldrich! Drawing on personal experience growing up in the Assembly of God church in Oklahoma, as well as books The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta and The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living and Leaving the...

Spiritual Trails

Spiritual Trails

Join us for our summer lay-led service with Seth Kaplan! You are invited to join us as Seth shares, "My spiritual journey: important events, a Few Miracles, & Notable People."

Spiritual Prose

Spiritual Prose

Join us for our summer lay-led service with Leslie Bryant! You are invited to bring a brief passage (1 or 2 pages) of prose to read aloud. Think Thoreau, Thich Nhat Hanh, Aldo Leopold, or anyone else—even a brief bit of fiction that you find inspiring.