The title of this morning’s sermon is, “Mary Oliver: Our Favorite Poet.” You may well be thinking, hey, she’s not my favorite poet. What, did we take a vote or a poll or something, and now just because I love this church community I have to say I’m a big Mary Oliver fan? [...]
The First Parish has existed since 1640, and occupied this building since 1815. But the American Unitarian Association was only created ten years after that, and this congregation declared itself part of that side of the split in the Standing Order of Congregational Churches three years later, the same year the Trinitarian Congregational Church of [...]
Things are not always as great as you expect them to be. You have always imagined that you would love some restaurant, some particular food, some view, some event, some activity, only to come away with the feeling expressed in the Peggy Lee song, “Is that all there is?”
She also reports that response to the [...]