In the recent and coming days, weeks, months, and years here at First Parish, we unfortunately have been and will find ourselves in many small, medium, and big examples of witnessing people we care about suffering. One of the challenges of being a Unitarian...
Welcome to the thematic ministry month of “covenants”. I will be talking about covenants at during a Lane Lyceum on 3/24, but while I have your attention … I’m eager to start talking about it now. First of all, I wonder how much you have...
Life has been really rough lately! From personal hardships to bad and triggering news coming out almost every day, far too many people I know are struggling just to cope. How are we supposed to support each other and our loved ones through these challenging times when...
Dear First Parish community. I am very excited to begin our interim journey together. I have spent my study time considering specifically how your congregation would most benefit from the interim process and deepening my leadership skills working with a variety...
Dear First Parish community, I am very grateful and excited to soon begin working with you as your new Interim Director of Lifespan Religious Education. While guiding the community at First Parish in Framingham, I was very impressed to witness how much the interim...
You may not remember, but this coming spring, I’ll be going on a sabbatical so that I can work on rewriting our “Lessons of Loss” curriculum. We are currently making plans to cover the many things I do and to spread out the work a bit during my...
Happy New Year! Here’s hoping 2018 is filled with joy, love and peace. We got a request to share a bit more about what the various folks in the RE program do and who to contact for various issues. We wish we could offer a simple list for you all, but there is...