June 20, 2021
In our final “regular church year” worship service for 2020-2021, we celebrated Flower Communion, our outgoing RE Chair, our incoming DRE, and Father’s Day!
June 13, 2021
I shared some of my thinking about re-opening as well as some thanks, and we awarded our Keeper of the Flame to Mike Pilman!
June 6, 2021
A Unitarian Universalist tradition — “The Question Box”, also known as “Ask the Minister”! There was also a Share-the-Plate for Littleton Community Farm.
May 30, 2021
We considered the proposed new 8th Principle for the UUA with “Eight Is Enough”. The proposed 8th Principle is: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
May 23, 2021
FCU member (Rev.) Jackie Clement led an excellent online-only service for us on May 23, 2021! If you watch on YouTube, click on “show more” to see the Order of Service.
May 16, 2021
As we have talked about over the years, our congregation is (strange as it may seem) descended from the Puritans. You might recall that the Pilgrims (or “Separatists”) who landed in Plymouth in 1620 are a particular subset of the Puritans. For our Auction Sermon, our own church historian, Joyce Williams, has asked me some interesting questions. Namely, How did the Separatists (or Pilgrims) of Plymouth Colony and the Puritans of Boston get along? Did they merge? I found some interesting information to share, and some thoughts about what we might learn from it all.
May 9, 2021
For our Mother’s Day Sunday, five different congregants shared stories of their own mothers.
May 2, 2021
This was “Monkey Sunday”! I talked about my two favorite mystical monkeys, Hanuman and Sun WuKong, and what we might learn from their stories.
April 25, 2021
On April 25th, our own FCU member Rev. Kathryn Pfaltzgraff (Church of the Brethren) gave the sermon and led much of the service! If you watch on YouTube, click “show more” to see the Order of Service.
April 18, 2021
This was our online-only “Earth Day Sunday” service. If you watch on YouTube, click “show more” to see the Order of Service. This was also Share the Plate Sunday, and our special offering went to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) of Lowell.