Service Descriptions

Join us for a Conversation Circle with Leslie Bryant. Those in attendance will be asked to briefly share who or what they are grateful for and why. If you have a representative photo or object to show, feel free to bring it.  This will be an informal gathering, so...

Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! It’s not a once-a-year practice of course. But let this national holiday reignite our commitment to the giving of thanks that is always relevant no matter what comes our way.

Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! We don’t have a creed. Each person is free to believe what they find to be true. We do have a (democratically chosen) set of values* meant to inform all in their spiritual journey. Is there a prayer, an...

Join us for Sunday worship: Opening Doors with Skye Larson & Emily Riordan. For most of us, the belief is that homelessness is faced by those in situations that we could not imagine ending up in. The reality is that many of the unhoused are our former neighbors,...

Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! Many traditions honor the dead at this time of year. Nature invites usto do so. We will reflect on the season and our memories of loved onesnow gone. While First Parish remembers those who have died the...

Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! In a few days the ghosts, witches, and skeletons will stream through our lives and threaten a trick if we don’t treat. It has me thinking about the place of fear in human life. Fear can protect us, manipulate us,...

Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! In our culture, we are conditioned to understand ourselves as more important than animals, that they exist on a hierarchy beneath humans. This thinking has fueled the treatment of animals as commodities, as beings...

Join us for Sunday worship with Alex Chamberlain. Alexandra's career bridges national security and democracy work. She is the Director for Free and Fair Elections programs and national security policy at Protect Democracy, a cross-ideological nonprofit organization....

Join us for Sunday worship! Our country roils with authoritarian, non-democratic behavior by those in power. We are all needed to defend human rights, protect the vulnerable, demand due process of law, and to represent the loving heart of compassion in the public...

Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! You can go online to NASA’s website and find when the space station can be spotted by you where you are on Earth. Eight people are orbiting the Earth 16 times a day. What do they see? What do they learn about what...