First Parish in Needham Logo

23 Dedham Avenue
Needham, MA 02492

Sermons

Most Recent Sermon

Baraye, Because

 

Sunday, March 12, 2023

10:30 am; live streamed from the Sanctuary

Darrah Bryans, Ministerial Intern, leading

 

Join us for our service this Sunday as we continue our exploration of March’s theme of “Good and Evil.” How do we make sense of evil in our world? Using the current revolution in Iran, we will explore ideas of repression, injustice, totalitarian governments, and our responses to them. How does our faith call us to respond and to act in the face of these kinds of evil?

The unofficial anthem of the uprising in Iran is Shervin Hajipour’s Baraye. If you’d like to hear this protest song before the service, please use this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8xXiqyfBg0

 

Previous Sermons

The GrUUnch Who Stole YUUlemas

  Sunday, December 18, 2022 10:30 am; live streamed from the Sanctuary Sara Elizabeth Dyer Santa Cruz & Laura Nevitt leading     This year’s winter pageant is a new and original affair! There will be lots of music to enjoy and laughs to be had as we...

read more

Candlelight Christmas Eve

  Saturday, December 24, 2022  5:30 pm; live streamed from the Sanctuary Rev. Catie preaching   Celebrate Christmas Eve by candlelight with First Parish! Rev. Catie, Darrah, and Sara Elizabeth will lead our service with traditional liturgy and...

read more

UU Collaborative Christmas Day Service

  Sunday, December 25, 2022 10:30 am; prerecorded for YouTube and Zoom Rev. Kristin Grassel Schmidt preaching   Join with First Parishioners and UUs across the country for a collaborative, prerecorded Christmas morning service. Unitarian Universalists...

read more

Limits of Our Knowledge

Sunday, December 4, 2022 10:30 am; live streamed from the Sanctuary Rev. Catie leading As we delve into our theme month on Awe & Mystery, we look to the stars with humility for all that we don’t yet know. With human knowledge expanding more quickly than ever...

read more

The Spiritual Practice of Rest

  Sunday, November 27, 2022 10:30 am; live streamed from the Sanctuary Darrah Bryans, Ministerial Intern leading   This Sunday marks the beginning of the Advent season, a time of preparation and of waiting. In the Christian tradition, Advent is the time...

read more

Families for Liberation

  Sunday, November 20, 2022 10:30 am; live streamed from the Sanctuary Rev. Catie Scudera leading   For many of us, when we think of our monthly theme “liberation,” we think of big picture, societal-level freedom for all. But, liberation can also happen on a...

read more

Great Bundle of Humanity

  Sunday, November 6, 2022 10:30 am, live streamed from the Sanctuary Rev. Catie Scudera leading   On this Sunday before Election Day, we reflect on our UU Fifth Principle and “the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at...

read more

Covenant, Not Creed

  Sunday, November 13, 2022 10:30 am, live streamed from the Sanctuary Rev. Catie Scudera leading   Our national denomination is in the midst of reviewing our UU Principles and Sources, and a draft of revised Principles and Sources has been published for...

read more

Hail to the Pumpkin King!

  Sunday, October 30, 2022 10:30 am, live streamed from the Sanctuary Rev. Catie Scudera leading   At the end of “spooky season,” we’ll use the 1993 stop-motion animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas as a way of understanding the difference between...

read more

Got Salvation?

  Sunday, October 23, 2022 10:30am, live streamed from the Sanctuary Ministerial Intern, Darrah Bryans, leading   Phew, salvation that’s a hard word for us to wrap our head around! What does salvation have to do with Beloved Community? Join us as we explore...

read more

Showing Up, Building Community

  Sunday, October 2, 2022 10:30am, live streamed from the sanctuary Darrah Bryans, Ministerial Intern, will lead the service   We will explore ideas of belonging and the hard work of building Beloved Community. How  does our faith tradition of Unitarian...

read more

Each Being Beloved

  Sunday, October 9, 2022 10:30 am, livestreamed from the Sanctuary Rev. Catie Scudera leading   In our service honoring Indigenous Peoples Day and drawing from indigenous wisdom, we contemplate our UU First Principle of the “inherent worth and dignity of...

read more