To newcomers, let me assure you, I will not spend every Sunday morning’s sermon relating our current practice to the way things used to be done here at First Parish, as I did last week with our heritage of “congregational polity,” with both independence and connectedness for local congregations.
Other connections with the early [...]
by the Rev. Kimi Riegel & the Rev. Ken Sawyer
The words of our responsive reading, taken from Buddhist tradition, offer a heartening hope: that we might live with “boundless love for all the world,” with “love unrestrained, without hate or enmity,” never wishing “evil to anyone at all.”
But then when we signal our interest in [...]
A Sermon About the Cambridge Platform
To outsiders, Unitarian Universalism often looks like a religion that is very contemporary, alert to the issues and ideas of the moment, even too much so, perhaps a little faddish, the sort of place where, you turn your back for a few years and when you look again, [...]