Fresh from coastal Maine days, All Souls worship associate Trish Murtha jumps in with her salty perspective, blessings, and blarney to ponder what reveals itself beneath the waves or who knocks at your guest house door? Please bring a treasure from your own coast memories to add to the worship table (no fresh fish … Continue reading Sunday August 10th – Low Tide of the Soul
Micah O’Connor, Lead Behavioral Health Clinician with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, will share with us the organization’s commitment to providing individual access to health care services and education that allows each person’s right to voluntary choices about personal reproductive and sexual health. Trish Murtha is this week’s worship coordinator weaving together some favorite, … Continue reading Sunday June 1st – Care, No Matter What
We will explore the varied ways that our creativity manifests and celebrate our Inclusive Arts Display, works created by people of varying abilities. This partnership is inspiring and demonstrates that each of us has creativity to share! We anticipate that this service will be both in-person and on Zoom. Click right here Sunday shortly before 10 … Continue reading Creativity Blooms From Within
Join us to hear and learn insights from a variety of church members whose voices represent a diversity of experience. We draw inspiration from our community and our own lives. May our voices be heard! We anticipate that this service will be both in-person and on Zoom. Click right here Sunday shortly before 10 a.m. to … Continue reading Voices of Our Congregation
Far beyond the secular silliness some attach to St. Patrick’s Day traditions, there is a powerful, lasting legacy we might all garner from the myths and from the divisions of faith in Irish history. What significance from this Celtic holiday and its tenacious traditions can we attach to our wider faith journeys that perhaps carry lifelong meaning? Worship Associates … Continue reading “Emerald Lessons from the Ancient Isles”
What is so essential about having the arts present in our lives? What do we hear or see that makes a difference and what do artists tell us that is so universal, subjective and limitless all at once? Many of us have favorite voices and works from artists in music, poetry, sculpture, painting, theatre, dance…Why does … Continue reading The Arts Speak: Possibilities and Freedom of Voice
When we get to the core of what being generous really means, we find ourselves in an unexpected place where we can scrutinize our purpose in offering a gesture, donation, or kindness. Allowing ourselves to come face to face with the person in the mirror, we’ll see the reflection of how we think about “the other”. Our … Continue reading “The Dance of Giving and Receiving”
Lurking in any art studio behind brushes, paints, paper, mounds of clay, canvas, and unfinished work you’ll find a dented old box labeled “F is for Fear”. Patrons and viewers of art are unaware that box exists because Gallery walls show only the results of risky, splendid, sacred moments when artists dare to ignore the … Continue reading “Art Making–Go with the Flow!”
We can proudly reflect on a powerful legacy of activism for justice and independence throughout the history of Unitarian Universalism. What have we learned and what inspires us individually and as a community to stay “fired up”, to take meaningful action steps and face a pivotal crossroad of divisive spirituality in the complicated present days. … Continue reading “Holding Firm on Freedom”
What wonder is this greening, this promise from the Universe that the Earth is balanced, that renewal is more than possible! A service filled with the words of the poets and wise ones, traditions from native peoples who trusted that the rivers would swell, that the meadows and berries would give forth. Yet again we … Continue reading “The Promise of Balance”
