Event Series Sunday Services

Might We Sit at the Table of the Almighty?

Sanctuary and Zoom

Rev. Kevin Peterson Straddling the public domains of faith, public reason, and politics, the Rev. Kevin C. Peterson is a Boston-based activist committed to advancing justice and good works in the public square. Trained and educated as a community activist, a writer, an organizer, and a public speaker, Rev. Peterson, founder of the New Democracy […]

Event Series Sunday Services

Tangled Up and Reckless

Sanctuary and Zoom

The Sanctuary Boston Callie Jennings and the Sanctuary Boston band bring you a service that will leave you with more questions than you came with, confused, and unsure what it all meant… and hopefully convinced that's a good thing. Trade your free and responsible search for truth and meaning for a tangled-up and reckless crush on […]

Event Series Sunday Services

Sunday Worship: Listening With

Sanctuary and Zoom

Guest preacher: Lindsay Donnelly-Bullington Our faith calls us to listen with, not just to, the world around us. What gifts and lessons do our senses offer us in our quest to build and become Beloved Community? Lindsay Donnelly-Bullington (she/her) is an itinerant preacher and an aspirant for Unitarian Universalist ministry. She is completing her MDiv […]

Event Series Sunday Services

Inciting Joy

Rev. Parisa Parsa We celebrate the theme of renewal with meditations in word and song on the things that bring us joy, tracing them all the way back to their beginnings as Ross Gay does beautifully in his book Inciting Joy. Creation Dance will offer their movement meditation on renewal and sources of joy, and we […]

Event Series Sunday Services

Pride

Sanctuary and Zoom

Rev. Parisa Parsa Historically one of the Seven Deadly Sins in Western Christianity, pride has been reclaimed not just by LGBTQ+ folx but also as a healthy and important way to affirm our worth. What are you proud of?

Summer Service on Zoom – Psychedelics and Spirituality: The Religion with No Name

Zoom

Today we are experiencing something of a renaissance in the understanding and acceptance of psychedelic experience. The medical community is leading this renaissance as it researches the power of psychedelics to address medical conditions such as addiction and anxiety. Yet throughout history, psychedelics have been even more centrally valued for their ability to promote spiritual […]

Summer Service on Zoom – Strong in the Broken Places

Zoom

Singer songwriter Leonard Cohen wrote in his song, Anthem, “There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” In this service – Strong in the Broken Places – Claire Willis will invite us to see our wounds and limitations in a new light – as sources of strength and even beauty.

Sunday Service on Zoom – In Defense of Capitalism

Zoom

As members of a liberal faith, we are regularly alerted to the importance of disciplining capitalism through initiatives like anti-monopoly legislation, unionization; and social, equity and governance policies. In our zeal to discipline capitalism, however, have we missed a larger reality – that it is capitalism which is responsible for the economic well-being of our […]

Sunday Service on Zoom – Our Philosophical Religion

Zoom

Is Unitarian Universalism best described as a late offshoot of Protestant Christianity, or a very late offshoot of Greek philosophy? FUUSN member Arthur Anderson has made a decades-long study of this question resulting in a treatise titled The Transcendentalists and The Death and Rebirth of Western Philosophical Religion. This Sunday, Arthur will describe his research and […]