Conversation Circle: Your Role in the Gift Economy
Join us for our summer lay-led service: Conversation Circle: Your Role in the Gift Economy with Leslie Bryant. The author Charles Eisenstein posits that before there was the development of “money,” even before there was a barter system, societies employed a circular...
The Head, The Heart & The Music
Join us for our summer lay-led service: The Head, The Heart & The Music with Alex and Dave Andrews. This talk expands on our 2011 summer service about music's relationship with our physiology and emotions, how music is learned and how it heals. We will review the...
Congregational Sing-Along of Songs We All Know & Love
Join us for our summer lay-led service: Leslie Bryant hosting Mel Greene & Howie Rashbah! Howie Rashbah is a beloved retired pediatrician who has been active in the local folk realm for many years; Mel Greene, a transplant to this area many years ago from South...
Prose & Poetry Jam
Join us for our summer lay-led service: Prose & Poetry Jam with Leslie Bryant. Bring a short (one page hopefully) passage of meaningful prose (fiction or nonfiction) or a beloved poem to share with others.
Regrouping, Resisting, Rejoicing: Flower Communion Sunday
Join us for Regrouping, Resisting, Rejoicing: Flower Communion Sunday with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! Bring a flower (or more to share). We will remember our Unitarian Universalist heritage and celebrate the beauty of diversity within life with a Flower Communion. ...
Voices of Wisdom
Join us for Voices of Wisdom with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! The sermon will lift up the life lessons learned by some of our First Parish Elders. Are there similarities in the wisdom that arises if one lives a long life? Does what older people often learn relate to wisdom...
Old Stories & New Beginnings with Matt Meyer
Join us for a service of song and silence, grounding ourselves in ritual and reflection. We’ll breathe deeply, letting go of what has not served us, and invite each other back to love.
Who We Choose to Be
Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! For those of us who have great choices in how we live our lives, what might we choose? Thinking back on who we admire or revere in our memories of them, what can we apply to our own lives? What choices in these...
Always a Connection: Word Salad Sermon
Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! Fifteen random words were submitted to me by those who purchased the opportunity to do so at the Auction last month. This is the Sunday that these seemingly random words will be put together in one sermon. ...
Heaven on Earth
Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler: My time here at First Parish is coming to an end on June 30. My last Sunday with you will be June 8. Let’s begin the saying of farewell this Sunday with a reflection about how First Parish of Sudbury is being...