Opening Doors
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,...
All Souls Day
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...
Fear & Thriving
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,...
Orbital
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...
Supporting the Trans Community & Our Democracy
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....
Five Ways to Stay with the Trouble
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...
Orbital
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...
The Tears of Things
Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! Unitarian Universalists draw from many sources, rather than just one book or one way of knowing truth. This Sunday, as the High Holy Days of Judaism approach, what can we learn from the Hebrew prophets that might...
What is Your Calling?
Join us for Sunday worship! Were you born knowing what you were meant to do with your life? Did you ever have a sudden insight about doing something that made you really excited? Join FPS members Fran Sharp and Deb Mackey as they explore the concept of callings. Fran...
Homecoming Sunday 2025: The Ways of Water, The Ways of Life
We look forward to coming together for our Homecoming Sunday service and water communion with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! Each September, we gather small amounts of individual water into a common bowl as we begin a new congregational year. We arrive as individuals with...