• Summer Service in Person – Listening

    FUUSN Parish Hall 1326 Washington St., West Newton, MA, United States

    Are you good at listening? While we all manage to hear enough to get by, would things be different if we were great listeners? Would we find more depth in music? Would we discover more dimensions of nature? Would we experience our friends and loved ones more profoundly? This Sunday we will examine our habits […]

  • This Week in Worship: Guest Preacher Rev. Tom Schade

    Sanctuary and Zoom

    What endures through victory or defeat, despite the enthusiasms of the day.? Let's take some time out from the everflowing stream of events to consider the everlasting present. Rev. Tom Schade is a retired UU Minister who served the First Unitarian Church of Worcester, MA from 1999 to 2013. He has also served in leadership positions for the […]

  • Worship Service: The High Holidays

    Sanctuary and Zoom

    Rev. Dr. Debra Haffner The Jewish Days of Awe, known as the High Holidays, begin on October 2nd at sunset with Rosh Hashanah and close at sunset on Yom Kippur on October 12th. Come explore what the rituals and lessons from these holidays might mean to us as Unitarian Universalists. Join us on Zoom

  • Worship Service: The Desert Spirit

    Sanctuary and Zoom

    Rev. Joel Miller I've found a journey into the heat and loneliness of the desert might become a pilgrimage into the spirituality of hospitality. And that can be an experience of being a host, a guest, or sometimes both of these simultaneously. You may also join us on Zoom. Submit your Joys and Sorrows here.

  • Worship Service: Love and the JETPIG Values

    Rev. Joel and Rev. Debra co-leading worship In June, the General Assembly of the UUA overwhelmingly passed a revised statement of our values and principles.  Come and learn more in this introduction to these changes in how we center our faith.  Future services this year will cover each of these themes in depth. Please join […]

  • Worship Service: Wheel of Life

    Sanctuary and Zoom

    Lay Ministry This Sunday your lay ministers will offer our annual Wheel of Life service. This service is where we recognize our collective transitions of the past year - growing our families through births and adoptions; moving on in our lives through graduations, new jobs, retirements, and geographic relocations; coming into our own truer selves […]

  • Worship Service: Feel, Deal, Heal

    Sanctuary

    Devin Shmueli, Director of Family and Community Ministries While recovery is not one-size-fits-all, one thing we can learn from people in recovery - living with behavioral or substance addiction - is that it is necessary for one to lean into complex feelings rather than find unhealthy ways to cope. What does feel, deal, heal mean? Healing starts with […]

  • Worship Service: Christmas Pageant and Carol Sing

    Sanctuary and Zoom

    Devin Shmueli, Director of Family and Community Ministries Anne Watson Born, Director of Music Ministry Join us for this festive, all-ages celebration of the Christmas Story in word and song, followed by an enthusiastic singing of carols! Bring your Christmas cheer or find it here!

  • Worship Service: Quaker Service (no Zoom)

    Sanctuary

    Anne Watson Born, Director of Music Ministry Our annual Quaker-style service will be held on Sunday December 31, 2023 at 10:15am in the Sanctuary. “…group silence is a type of communion, using both the religious and secular meaning of the word. We are taking sustenance and solace from each other, receiving a blessing of the spirit. We […]

  • Worship Service: Transformation

    Sanctuary and Zoom

    Rev. Dr. Debra Haffner Transformation is one of the newly adopted shared values of the UUA, also known as Article 2. As we enter this new year, join Rev. Debra in exploring what transformation means in our own lives and in the lives of our institutions and society.

  • Worship Service: For Such a Time as This

    Sanctuary and Zoom

    Rev. Dr. Debra Haffner The inauguration is January 20th.  How can we prepare ourselves for the changes to come?  Rev. Debra will offer lessons from two books – On Tyranny and Strongmen – to consider how Unitarian Universalists might need to respond.  She will share why she believes that our social justice efforts must be directed to protecting democracy […]