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Our world is deeply flawed. And it is also incredibly beautiful. In this all-ages services, as we celebrate our Religious Education program and everyone and everything that makes this congregation what it is, let us recognize the importance of the “eye of the beholder” (us!). How might we take in the beauty that is everywhere … Continue reading In the Eye of the Beholder – Appreciation Sunday (9 am only)
UU minister Scott Taylor writes, “Beauty does more than soothe and heal. It demands. It calls. It doesn’t just say “Love and appreciate me.” […] It paints a picture of new ways of living and declares, “Follow me there!” What might it look like to soak in the beauty around us, allow it to grab … Continue reading Called by Beauty
Rev. Tony Lorenzen shares thoughts on how each of us is an artist and each of us creates a masterwork, an artistic accomplishment only we can achieve. The Rev. Tony Lorenzen serves Hopedale Unitarian Parish in Hopedale, MA and currently serves as a Good Officer for the UUMA’s Clara Barton Chapter. He was born in Fitchburg, … Continue reading Painting Your Masterpiece
Our Coming of Age youth have spent the last year reflecting on their faith and life and what it all means. Please join them for this Sunday’s services in which they speak about their own growth and where they find sources of light when light is hard to come by. Different youth speak at each … Continue reading Coming of Age: Photosynthesis – An Exploration in Light and Growth
All Ages Worship – Our theme this month is curiosity. As we witness flowers popping from the ground this spring, let us bring our curiosity and wonder to the process of growth, change and the birth of new life. We will honor mothers and all who nurture on this all-ages flower communion Sunday, so please … Continue reading Pig’s Egg: A Flower Communion Service
What does it mean to be lucky people? Is good fortune a creation we can bring to pass on our own or are we far more dependent on external circumstances? Rev. Phyllis B. O’Connell recently retired from parish ministry after 25 years. She served the Melrose UU Church for ten years and the UU Society … Continue reading The Lucky People
Unitarian Universalism Today: the state of our faith and its yearning for wholeness. In 1997, the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly passed the Business Resolution calling upon the Unitarian Universalist Association, in all its many forms, an anti-racist and multi-cultural organization. In time, that phrase “anti-racist and multi-cultural’ was a broadened to be “anti-racist, anti-oppressive, … Continue reading The Present Moment: Everything Will Change Again
Diverse paths in spiritually coming to terms with the pain of personal transgressions The Rev. Dr. Robert R.N. Ross is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister in Final Fellowship who is also accredited by the UUA to work specifically with congregations in transition. He has recently been a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the Graduate … Continue reading Cleansing
What UU’s learned through the process of the Welcoming Congregation, not only about our LGBTQIA co-religionists, but also about the process of change. AND THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED SOME MORE Adrienne Rich tried to point out that there was a moment “when the name of compassion was changed to the name of guilt, when the … Continue reading And then everything changed some more…
That sustaining, creating, and transforming current that carried Unitarian Universalism through the 60’s seems to have vanished in the early 1970’s. But it re-emerged from a new source: the Women’s Reformation of Unitarian Universalism. It changed almost everything. The Women’s Reformation In January 1970, right at the beginning of the decade of the 70’s, … Continue reading The Great Reformation
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