This Week in Worship Sunday, January 24 Worship @ 10:30 am in Meetinghouse At the end of every Christmas Eve service I am reminded of one of the downsides of being an interim minister. Seeing the faces of returning college students chatting and reconnecting with each other after months away from home; these old friends getting to … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 1/21/2016

This Week in Worship Sunday, January 17 — Worship @ 10:30 am in Meetinghouse The Rev. Rebecca Parker writes about driving through a small town and seeing lots of sand bags and flotsam around, and saying to her companion, “there must have just been a flood.” She drove through another town with the same sort of debris … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 1/14/2016

This Week in Worship Sunday, January 10th Worship @ 10:30 am in Meetinghouse Recently a colleague, who was about to preach at an ordination, sent a note to some clergy asking what surprised us the most about ministry. My answer was about level of vulnerability that people share with their clergy. I thought of a few conversations … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 1/7/2016

This Week in Worship Sunday, January 3 – Worship @ 10:30 am in Meetinghouse This is the year. This is THE year. THIS IS THE YEAR! Yup this is the year when you, First Parish, get a new minister. THIS is the year, when you start the next chapter in your life as a religious community. Do … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 12/31/2015

This Week in Worship Thursday, December 24 — Christmas Eve Worship & Pageant @ 5:00 pm in the Meetinghouse Thursday, December 24 — Christmas Eve Music Service @ 10:00 pm in the Meetinghouse Sunday, December 27 @ Worship @ 10:30 am in the Meetinghouse John Waters, the outrageous Baltimore film director, shot a scene in one of his early movies … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 12/23/2015

This Week in Worship Sunday, December 20 Worship @ 10:30 am in Meetinghouse A letter from an 1834 edition of The Christian Register, A Boston Unitarian magazine. “All the children are expecting presents, and all the aunts and cousins to say nothing of near relatives, are considering what they shall bestow upon earnest expectants. I observe … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 12/17/2015

This Week in Worship Sunday, December 13 Worship @ 10:30 am in Meetinghouse The Worship Theme for December is Peace Next week marks the two hundred and fortieth anniversary of an event where a group of one hundred and sixteen men dumped three hundred and forty chests of tea into Boston Harbor, while over two thousand people … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 12/10/2015

This Week in Worship Sunday, December 6 Worship @ 10:30 am in Meetinghouse The Worship Theme for December is Peace The great Universalist minister and theologian Hosea Ballou preached that the God of love calls us to “happify” our lives. (He would also use terms like happification and religious pleasure.) Ballou wrote in his opus A Treatise … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 12/3/2015

This Week in Worship Sunday, November 29 Worship @ 10:30 am in Meetinghouse Guest Preacher: Johannah Murphy In the Hindu story of Yashoda and Krishna, Yashoda does not realize how holy her son Krishna is until she happens to glance the entirety of the cosmos in his mouth. Though in this story the cosmos exist solely in … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 11/26/2015

This Week in Worship Sunday, November 22 Worship @ 10:30 am in Meetinghouse Theme: Vision My friend Tim Bridwell lives in Paris and wrote this. “Saturday morning in Paris. The postman rang with a package. As I descended the stairs he backed away from the door. His face was drawn, his expression weary as he asked for … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 11/19/2015