Service Descriptions

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.

Circle Discussion of Spiritual Matters

Circle Discussion of Spiritual Matters

Join us for our summer lay-led service—a group participation discussion of spiritual matters, large and small. Music by singer/songwriter Paul Rogoshewski.

St. Elizabeth’s Chapel & Ralph Adams Cram

St. Elizabeth’s Chapel & Ralph Adams Cram

Join us for our summer lay-led service with Aline Kaplan! Have you ever driven past the little stone chapel in the woods west of Concord Road? Have you ever wondered who lived in the big white house on the hill next to it?    Today’s service will...

A Short History of Marriage

A Short History of Marriage

Join us for our summer lay-led service with Dave Andrews! We will explore some marriage and pre-marriage practices from around the (mostly Western) world dating back to times before "The Church"  dominated these ceremonies.  This is NOT a marriage therapy session.

Morris Magic

Morris Magic

Join us for our summer lay-led service with Tom Kruskal! Ribbons, bells, and squeaking fiddles: What’s It all about?

Celebration Sunday & Flower Communion

Celebration Sunday & Flower Communion

Join us for Celebration Sunday! Today we celebrate our community and all of the ways people show up to contribute to its ongoing creation. The bells will ring out for you, and you, and you!  We will welcome new members too!  BRING FLOWERS TO SHARE! Join us for a...