Service Descriptions

There is variety in what any one Unitarian Universalist believes theologically. Still, there is an abiding underpinning of humanism in our tradition through time. Where do you lean in humanist/theist conversation? Can a person be both? Conversation with the minister...

Twenty people purchased the opportunity to choose a word that Rev. Hepler will use in a sermon…not separate sermons. All 20 of the individually chosen (and seemingly unrelated) words will be used in one sermon! Can it be done? Is everything interrelated after all?

Music Sunday with musician Jim Scott and the First Parish Choir We will celebrate the earth with Jim's original songs, readings, and personal reflections on Mother Earth or "Gaia" being one living organism.  Our "spiritual response" is so timely now, as "the spirit of...

With Speaker Sam Williams Mr Williams has a story of hardships and challenges. He shares his personal journey of transcending the odds and overcoming social despair and prison incarceration as a youth. As a mindfulness and body-based teacher, he uses social healing...

Speaking inclusion in our spiritual path, we can be challenged as to how to live this out in congregational life. No easy answers, but strength in the conversation. No simple programmatic decisions, but compassion can lead the way. For what do you come to church? And...

With Guest Speaker Sam Williams Mr. Williams has a story of hardships and challenges. He shares his personal journey of transcending the odds and overcoming social despair and prison incarceration as a youth. As a mindfulness and body-based teacher, he uses social...

What enables a positive stance of life? What encourages human beings to thrive? And, while facing the truth of this culture, this world, and this time in history, where shall we plant our feet and live in positive, encouraging, honest, helpful, and transforming...

Barbara Brown Taylor wrote “…there comes a time when it is vastly important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address....

The resurrection we know for sure.  Oh, to be born again, and again, and again in one lifetime. (Inspired by Repentance and Repair by Danya Ruttenberg, which is the UU ‘Common Read’ for 2024). 

In some parts of the country, politicians seem to be asking “How do we make transgender people more invisible with fewer human rights?” This morning we’re asking, instead, “How can we grow to extend an ever-deeper welcome to trans and non-binary people? How do we open...