January 9, 2022

• Bill Duston
• Molly Lozeau
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• fear
• online worship
• spiritual practice
• Time for All Ages

We had an online-only worship service on Zoom, thinking about fear.

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December 26, 2021

• Bill Duston
• Cindy Malley
• Jen Jaksa
• Monica Pilman
• online worship
• potpourri
• Time for All Ages

An annual tradition! The Deacons led a service of sharing.

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December 5, 2021

• Carolyn McCreary
• Cindy Malley
• Monica Pilman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Roger Price
• Thea Shapiro
• agnosticism
• Christmas
• nativity
• online worship

During “red light” conditions, we worshiped online-only. Guest preacher and FCU deacon Cindy Malley discusses what Christmas means to her as an agnostic.

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November 28, 2021

• Andrea Price
• Bob Williams
• Cindy Malley
• Jen Jaksa
• Martha Childs
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Roger Price
• Hanukkah
• Judaism
• online worship

During our “red light” conditions, we worshiped online-only. We discussed who we might be in the Hanukkah story.

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June 20, 2021

• Cindy Malley
• Karen Tucker-Barisano
• Laura Semple
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Susan Palmer
• Thea Shapiro
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• Father's Day
• Flower Communion
• online worship
• Time for All Ages

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!

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June 13, 2021

• Andy Leyenaar
• Debbie Eston
• Lynda Kaylor
• Martha Childs
• Mike Pilman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• keeper of the flame
• online worship
• Time for All Ages

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!

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June 6, 2021

• Amy Tarlow-Lewis
• Jen Banks
• Laura Semple
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• online worship
• Question Box
• Time for All Ages

A Unitarian Universalist tradition — “The Question Box”, also known as “Ask the Minister”! There was also a Share-the-Plate for Littleton Community Farm.

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May 30, 2021

• Karen Tucker-Barisano
• Lori Grant
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• 8th Principle
• anti-racism
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• online worship
• Time for All Ages
• white supremacy culture

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.”

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May 23, 2021

• Laura Semple
• Martha Childs
• Rev. Jackie Clement
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• online worship
• Time for All Ages
• Unitarian Universalism

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.

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May 16, 2021

• Bill Duston
• Karen Tucker-Barisano
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• history
• online worship
• Pilgrims
• Puritans
• Time for All Ages
• UU history

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.

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