Our service was music filled! Emma’s Revolution offered us their beautiful songs, and Sandy and Pat told stories about each that make the day even more special. Click on the link above to listen to more of what they have to offer, to purchase their music for your ongoing delight, and see what other online resources … Continue reading Goodies from Worship on April 26 — Singing for Our Lives
We are right around a month into sheltering in place. The shift from our usual life in the congregation has been abrupt and disorienting, but I think we are finding our way. Have you been to our online worship services? We are still gathering on Sundays at 10:30 a.m., and everyone is welcome to come … Continue reading News and Updates from Rev. Linda
We’re providing some resources and other goodies that were part of the service on April 5. Check our blog weekly to access to the poetry and music we’re using in our online worship. Lynn Unger’s poetry has been a balm for many in our services. Her poem Persephone was our meditation. It’s not on her … Continue reading Worship Goodies from April 5 “Mothers for All” with Erien Babcock
How are you friends? How are you holding up? Here’s a meme I saw this morning on Facebook: “Eighth day of self isolation in my house and it’s like Vegas: we’re losing money by the minute, cocktails are acceptable at any hour, and no one knows what time it is.” Claire our 19 year old … Continue reading Homily: Wisdom in Our Hands
I served a congregation in Woodstock, Vermont back in the mid-1990s. I learned about winter weather. And a LOT about snow. It might have been the first time we had a big snow that I decided to not preach the sermon that I had planned, but rather to offer the few people who arrived — … Continue reading Snow-zilla!
In the months since the pledge drive this year, I’ve had the opportunity to take a few classes and seminars on church stewardship via Stewardship for Us, a company that focuses on helping Unitarian Universalist congregations “envision, plan, and implement stewardship programs.” Based on these classes, and some brainstorming sessions, we have some exciting new … Continue reading Stewardship for Us – Together As a Congregation and As Unique Individuals
I’ve said more times than I can remember that it’s been a year of trouble and turmoil. Maybe it has something to do with the way social media shapes our lives, the constant blare of the 24 hour news cycle, and the if-it-bleeds-it-leads nature of news reporting. This week or so has seemed especially filled … Continue reading Joy and Woe Are Woven Fine
“And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?” This question is the opening line of Raymond Carver’s “Late Fragment,” a poem that seems to reach out to me every few years. Earlier in 2016 I heard this line as the culminating “bonus” question in a commencement address at the Harvard … Continue reading “And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?”
June’s word is Revelry, defined as a wild and noisy celebration. How fitting that word is to where we are as a church, and where I am. First the church, and why the term revelry is, to me, so fitting. Normally, for there to be wild and noisy celebrations, there must be a great deal … Continue reading Board of Trustees President’s Message for June 2016
In a group online, a few colleagues wondered about what to tell their children and how to tell them about what has been going on in the world, so I’ve been thinking a lot about the question of what we tell our children and when, and how to protect them and give them hope. I’m not … Continue reading What About the Children: A Response to Orlando
