The news is in: the Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women Health Organization ruling is final, which, as many of us suspected it would, has officially overturned the historic Roe v Wade decision. From your ministers, Rev Catie and Rev Jenna, there is shock; there is grief; there...
Dear First Parish, My family and I were on the Cape this past weekend for my cousin’s wedding, and the morning of her wedding we took our daughter to a small playground in Hyannis. Little did we know that a walk for suicide prevention and awareness was...
During worship on May 8, Jenna preached about the leaked SCOTUS draft Dobbs decision. She included a list of action items, first published by the UUA and Side With Love, that she said she’d include in the next few editions of the Bell Notes. The list is as...
Dear First Parishioners, My heart breaks with the news leaked yesterday that the Supreme Court may overturn Roe v. Wade this summer, revoking the right to access to safe abortions as a nationwide protection. Though in Massachusetts we have fairly strong...
Beloved First Parishioners, I am angry, frightened, and disturbed, especially as Washington, D.C., is so familiar to me after a childhood spent in northern Virginia, where my parents, my brother and his family, and my sister-in-law and her family still...
As many of you know, COVID-19 cases are rising sharply across the country. Massachusetts is experiencing an equally high caseload of new coronavirus cases as we had in the spring. Norfolk County specifically is faring better than the Commonwealth overall, but is still...
In a new “couch conversation” video, Rev. Catie and Jenna Crawford discuss the September 2020 monthly theme, Journeys, by sharing their own spiritual journeys to Unitarian Universalism. You can watch the video on YouTube...
When the congregation came together during the 2014-2015 congregational year to dream about who we wanted to be by the year 2020, we agreed on four strategic goals to carry us closer to our vision for ourselves and our wider community. We hoped to make social...
