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Career Opportunities at First Parish of Sudbury
Posted June 18, 2019 Two open positions on staff at First Parish of Sudbury: click on links for job descriptions. Office Administrator Marketing and Communications Coordinator
read more2019 Summer Services Schedule
Date Leader Topic June 16 Dave Andrews Fatherhood June 23 June Hopkins Genealogy – Voice in Your Blood June 30 NO SERVICE JUNE 30 July 7 Tom Yelton What is Church For? A Dialogue. July 14 Fred Pryor The Financial Social Worker July 21 Leslie Bryant July 28 Marion Tratnyek Summers on the Farm August 4 Earth Centered Group Lughnasadh! August 11 Seth Kaplan What Is It About Guns August 18 Lane Williamson God of Dirt August 25 All Attendees Poetry Jam...
read moreFlower Ritual during Sunday Service on last day
Flower Ritual on June 9 Sunday, June 9 will be the last Sunday of our Program Year. As in past years, we will conclude with a flower ritual (some call it Flower Communion), introduced to Unitarian worship by Norbert Čapek of Czechoslovakia in June, 1923. Čapek built a religious movement of Unitarians that, over the course of two decades, grew to nearly 10,000 people. He ministered at what was then the largest Unitarian congregation in the world, in Prague. The flower ritual was brought to the United States by Mája Čapek in 1940. She was...
read moreSummer@FPS
Here it is, folks, the straight scoop on how things work at FPS in the summer: click here: Summer@FPS
read moreOffice Hours June 2019
The “old” administrator, Fran Sharp, is transitioning to summer hours and also preparing to train the person who will be the new administrator … at some point during the summer. There will be more information coming soon about this. So, here’s our best guess about times you can expect to find an administrator in the office: Tuesday, Wed and Thursday (June 11, 12, 13) from 9am-noon Tuesday, Wed, and Thursday (June 18, 19, 20) from 9am-noon Wednesday June 26 from 9am-noon Watch for more information about staffing...
read more6/16 Bohm Dialogue — Spirituality and Religion
For June our topic is Spirituality and Religion. “I think there’s been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.” ―Dave Davies We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we’re not getting those things from our communities or from each other.” ―Naomi Klein “Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.” ―Bonnie Raitt “There are several different meanings of the words religion and spirituality, all of which are...
read moreSpirituality Book Group Saturday June 15, 10am – Breakfast with Buddha
All who are interested are welcome to come on Saturday, June 15 at 10am when the Spirituality Book Group is meeting to discuss Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo. When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he’d planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger–and amuse himself–he decides to show the monk some “American...
read moreFaith in Action meeting June 15
Join us on Saturday, June 15, from 10:00 – 11:30 AM in The Commons as we discuss Faith in Action activities for the summer and fall. Faith in Action @FPS is one way we live our UU values in the world……we work to make positive changes in society by increasing awareness of our collective responsibility and our commitment to generosity. Together we work on issues important to members and friends…the environment and reducing our carbon footprint, racial justice, gun control, economic justice, immigration, domestic violence, and much more....
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