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Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason, Guest Minister, preaching Worship service given January 26, 2025 Prayer by David Whitford, Worship Associate https://firstparish.info/ First Parish A liberal religious community, welcoming to all First gathered 1739 An important part of the history of these United States is the poetry that our fellow Americans have written about it. What do their poems have to tell us about our country now? If it is true that poets serve as “the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, what national norms are they writing (or righting) for us today? Which of their verses might we need to know by heart? The Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason currently serves as Community Minister for Spiritual Direction at Arlington Street Church; she also teaches in the apprenticeship program at the Phoenix Center for Spiritual Direction and works as a book reviewer for Presence, the quarterly journal of Spiritual Directors International. In 2022, she convened the Spirituality & Flourishing Interest Group in the Harvard Flourishing Network and today acts as its Co-Chair. For more than a decade now, she has blogged at TheReverendDr.com on the topic of “what heals us in our souls.” Offering and Giving First The Giving First program donates 50% of the non-pledge offering each month to a charitable organization that we feel is consistent with Unitarian Universalist principles. The program began in November 2009, and First Parish has donated over $200,000 to more than 70 organizations. For January 2025, the Giving First recipient is Women's Lunch Place. Women's Lunch Place is a day shelter community in Boston for women experiencing poverty and homelessness. Trained staff and volunteers provide hundreds of women with two nutritious means a day, clean clothes and a fresh shower with a spirit of healing, hope and dignity. Advocates help guests with issues such as fleeing domestic violence, immigration status, housing, and increasing income. When you donate to Women's Lunch Place you make a difference in the lives of vulnerable women. The remaining half of your offering supports the life and work of this Parish. To donate using your smartphone, you may text “fpuu” to 73256. Then follow the directions in the texts you receive. About our Lead Minister: Rev. Marta Flanagan began her ministry as our twentieth called minister at First Parish in the fall of 2009. She is a genuine and forthright preacher. In conversation she is direct and engaging. She speaks of prayer with as much ease as she laughs at human foibles. We call her “Marta.” Marta is a religious liberal, a theist, a feminist, and a lover of the woods. As a student of American history at Smith College she was captivated by the stories of social reformers who were motivated and sustained by their faith. That led her to consider the ministry and to study at Harvard Divinity School from where she was graduated in 1986. She was the first woman minister in the city of Salem, Massachusetts, serving at the First Universalist Church there (1987-1997). She served in a co-ministry at South Church (Unitarian Universalist) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, (1997-2005) from where she is minister emerita. Marta served as interim minister in Montpelier, Vermont (2008-2009). She is trained as a spiritual director. For three years she lived in the Vermont woods practicing voluntary simplicity and the spiritual life. Marta enjoys the vitality of First Parish and our strong sense of community. She celebrates the yearning for depth and the desire to make a difference in the world that she finds here.

Macca and Fiona talk to  Victoria's Minister for Equality, the Hon. Harriet Shing.  Minister Shing, has announced that $800,000 in grants will be delivered to LGBTQI+ organisations across Victoria. As a... LEARN MORE The post Saturday 25th May, 2024, $800k In Grants For Victoria's LGBT Community. Minister for Equality Harriet Shing, New Government Grants announced appeared first on Saturday Magazine.

Rev. Christopher Watkins Lamb leads us in an 8-minute breathing meditation using Sarah Dan Jones's Meditation on Breathing. Rev. Christopher is Foothills Unitarian's Community Minister. Community ministers extend the reach of Unitarian Universalist ministry beyond the congregation. 

"Ingathering Sunday: Bring in the People and the Waters!" Sunday, September 10, 10:50 am, 2023 This Sunday is opening Sunday! Church may serve as a place to "Remember" or to get an understanding of what it is to be human. Bring any water from areas you went this summer (even if it was from your backyard spigot or a nearby park). If you don't, we will have water accessible, and we look forward to your offering of what you bring from the summer into community -- what wisdom, what joy, what grief, what sense of possibilities or yearnings -- all of it presented into the year we begin together. Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Rev. Laura Shennum, Minister of Congregational Life; Rev. Seanan Fong, Community Minister; Dennis Adams, Worship Associate; Lucy Smith, Board of Trustees; Reiko Oda Lane, Organist; UUSF Choir led by Mark Sumner, Music Director; Nancy Munn, Soloist; Wm. García Ganz, Pianist Shulee Ong, Camera; Jackson Munn, Camera; Santana Gonzalez-Gomez, Live Chat Moderator; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Amy Kelly, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher

This week we share a Soundings Seminar conversation between Coracle's Community Minister, Chris Lugo, and Executive Director, Bill Haley, who recently returned from an extended sabbatical including much travel, rest, and study.  He shares stories, resources, and insights granted to him by God along the way, all of which were helpful reminders of God's constant loving presence and provision to him; we hope they will be for you as well!WATCH the Video Recording of their conversation, including an additional segment where Bill shares photos from his travels.Support the show

This week, we are sharing a Soundings Seminar conversation offered in March of 2022 between Bill Haley, Scott Buresh (Coracle's Community Minister to Baltimore) and Coracle Associate, Carla Mueller. Together, they unpack and reflect upon Dallas Willard's spiritual classic, Hearing God. They explore the barriers we all face as we seek to cultivate the skill of hearing God's particular voice to us, and reveal how Willard's book isn't ultimately teaching us a technique but inviting us into an authentic relationship with our loving Creator. We hope you will be blessed by their rich conversation!This was offered as part of a year-long series, "Discernment: Hearing God in a Noisy World"Learn More About Spiritual Direction through Coracleinthecoracle.org  |  @inthecoracleSupport the show

This week, we share a devotional journey through Christianity's most famous prayer. Ken Wettig (Coracle's Community Minister to the Shenandoah Valley) guides us step by step through The Lord's Prayer, framed as a prayer for when we don't know how else to pray.This was originally offered as one of our weekly "Space for God" times. Explore our Archive of over 100 "Space for God" devotional videos, and Join Us Next Tuesday on Zoom!inthecoracle.org  |  @inthecoracleSupport the show

This week, Ken Wettig (Coracle's Community Minister for the Shenandoah Valley) guides us through the Prayer of Examen, a classic Ignatian Spiritual Practice.  The Examen offers us a way to look back prayerfully over our days and in a real sense re-live the ups and downs in the presence of our loving God.  It can be a powerful, humbling, encouraging, transformative practice, and Ken offers a great introduction to it.More Resources on the Examen:Ken's Examen GuidePrayer by Richard FosterPray-as-You-Go on Examen PrayerView our complete archive of "Space for God" devotionalsJoin us at an upcoming "Space for God"inthecoracle.org  |  @inthecoracleSupport the show (https://inthecoracle.org/support/)

Ever wondered what faith has to do with finances? Or how to steward your budget in a faithful way? Or how to even *start* a budget?Rev. Jessica Shine is here to teach us all about how Jesus can function as a great financial advisor. In fact, she even says he talks more about money than most things (though she also says you can debate her on that!). In this episode we cover:What the Bible tells us about finances. The relationship between debt and generosity (i.e. should we be giving, or tithing, while still in debt ourselves)Some of the unhealthy theology we come across when it comes to moneyHow to build a budgetCommunicating with partners/significant others around budgeting and financesWhether or not you should share a bank account with a partner/significant other. ..The Reverend Jessica Shine (BA, MDiv) is a descendant of Mexican, Indian, and Western European immigrants. Her spirituality began in childhood, weaved through evangelicalism, and continues to evolve in the Pacific Northwest. She dwells on lands where Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla and many other tribes made their homes. Shine co-hosted a podcast on death and dying called “Done For” (available on iTunes, Google, and at doneforpodcast.com) and has written for ProgressiveChristianity.org and ProgressingSpirit.org.Reverend Shine also serves as CHI Seminary Guest Faculty for The Chaplaincy Institute (Berkeley, CA). Shine (she/her/hers) earned degrees in theology and divinity, but still hasn't figured out how to walk on water. Despite this, she was ordained to ministry by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and continues offering spiritual care as a clergy member of The CHI Interfaith Community and with The United Church of Christ. With over two decades of experience serving church communities, police officers, hospice patients, hospital staff, teenagers, and most recently as Community Minister of The Chaplaincy Institute, Shine has a passion for people and a skill for communicating in transformative ways.Currently, she serves as a Generosity Officer for the United Church of Christ national setting and celebrates life with her wife (co-facilitator @WildChurchPDX), bonus daughter, and four legged friends....Buy some Lady Preacher Podcast//Dancing Pastor Ministries Apparel:https://www.bonfire.com/store/dancing-pastor-ministries/Visit our website and sign up for our Weekly Devotional email!Find us on Instagram or Facebook!

Jillian Richardson is a loneliness expert, professional facilitator, and bestselling author. She's also the founder of The Joy List, a weekly newsletter of community-centered events in NYC.In her work she helps people learn the skills to connect more deeply to themselves and others, and has inspired thousands through her workshops, interviews, and public speaking engagements. Jillian has been featured as a source for NPR, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, and Outside Magazine, among many other outlets. Jillian is a certified coach through the Coach Training Alliance and a current Community Minister at Judson Memorial Church. She geeks out over the future of spirituality outside of organized religion and is considering becoming an interfaith minister. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Living In Christ's Community - Minister David Baskerville - 8/15/2021 by Kingdom Living Ministries

Rev. Mykal O'Neal Slack is the Community Minister for Worship & Spiritual Care for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism, an organization and growing spiritual community that provides support, resources, and care for Black UUs across the diaspora. He is also one of the co-founders of the Transforming Hearts Collective, an organizing ministry that helps to both co-create spaces of healing and spiritual resiliency for queer and trans/nonbinary folks and resource congregations in the work of radical welcome and culture shift. BLUU: https://blacklivesuu.org (607) 444-BLUU INFO@BLACKLIVESUU.ORG Transforming Hearts Collective: https://www.transformingheartscollective.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theflame-uu/message

Be. Be-ing. Being. Not Doing, as we often find ourselves. How do you respond to the calls you hear? Whether from beloveds or the urgency of action. How do you respond? I’m coming! (or sometimes, NO! ... read more.

This is the first in a series of ICYA Christmas Features, a few short podcast episodes to accompany you through your holiday isolation. First up we have Andrew Reimer, a long-time Community Minister at ICYA, who wrote a poem a few years ago called This Isn't Bethlehem. In it Andrew explores the collision of joyful "Christmas values" with the difficult situations and pain that are a daily reality in the inner city - a reality that doesn't go away at Christmas time. 

Full-time ministry" usually makes us picture pastors in a church -- but in reality, everyone is called to do full-time ministry. We speak with two women who minister full-time in the non-profit world -- Joanne Rodriguez, Executive Director of the Hispanic Theological Initiative at Princeton Seminary, and Breana Van Velzen, Community Minister at Duke University Chapel.Disclaimer: The views, actions, and affiliations of guests invited on this podcast do not always reflect ISAAC's official stances; they belong to the guests. This podcast is a platform for voices to be shared and perspectives to be discussed.

Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen is a Community Minister and works with the National Bail Fund Network as their Immigration Bond Coordinator. She joined us live on Sunday morning for our special UU the Vote worship service.   Rev. Elizabeth talks about how voting is just one part of the democratic system. In fact, it is the last part. She tells us about the need to organize, donate, protest, and demonstrate our UU values all season, not just on November 3rd.   Get involved with UU the Vote at https://www.uuthevote.org/get-involved/. Learn more about Rev. Elizabeth at https://www.uua.org/offices/people/elizabeth-nguyen.  

Positivity Podcast Day #3, features Rev Erin Walter, Community Minister in the Unitarian Universalist Faith Tradition. She will be speaking on Connection. For more information about Erin and her ministry, please see links below. Erinjwalter.com @erinjwalter on insta Facebook.com/erinplaysbass ParkerWoodland.com @parkerwoodlandband erin.walter@austinymca.org for YMCA member and community support Thank you for tuning in!

Celebrating the Spirit of Kwanzaa December 29, 2019 Rev. Joyce Palmer Kwanzaa is a holiday designed to honor and celebrate African American culture, values, and community. During the Kwanzaa celebration, everyone pledges to work together to improve themselves and to make their community a better place to live. This is a celebration that all are welcome to join.  Joyce Palmer served as the Assistant Minister at Unitarian Universalist Church West in Brookfield, WI. She received her Master of Divinity degree from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. She served as Director of Membership and Lay Ministry at All Souls Church UU, in Washington, DC. Joyce is the lead on the Marjorie Bowens Wheatley Scholarship Committee through the UU Women's Federation. Joyce and her family recently moved back to Rockford, IL to live closer to family. Joyce currently works at Lutheran Social Services of Illinois as a Child Welfare Specialist Supervisor. She is also a Community Minister at the UU Church of Rockford. She enjoys reading, teaching Nia dance classes, spending time with her husband Tim and sons Dorien and Antonio, and walking her terrier mix, Rosey.

Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

Sermon Series: Rooted Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

Sermon Series: Rooted Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

Sermon Series: Rooted Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

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Sermon Series: SHIFT Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

Sermon Series: This is How We Know Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

If you are in a war, retreat means you are losing and need to back up. If you are at peace, retreat means going to a place of rest and rejuvenation. Such a difference! When we are overwhelmed by all that goes on around us, how do we find that place of peace that allows us to regroup for a better day. Rev. Betty Skwarek is a Community Minister affiliated with Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church in Cedar Park, Texas. Her work includes building an online ministry for underserved liberal individuals and congregations particularly those in rural areas, serving on the Board serving on the Board of Trustees and working as a Chaplain at U Bar U, and leading worship for area congregations. 

What do the flowers say?  Ninety-five years have passed since the Reverend Norbert Capek introduced the Flower Communion to his Unitarian congregation in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Much has changed since then, but the Flower Communion continues. What started as a simple exchange of flowers has become a favorite celebration for Unitarian Universalists everywhere.  Why has this ceremony thrived?  What does it offer us today? Rev. Betty is the affiliated Community Minister at Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church in Cedar Park, Texas. She leads worship for UU congregations, officiates weddings and other rites of passage, serves on the U Bar U Board of Trustees, and volunteers as a discussion leader with iAct. Her newest project is developing an online liberal religious resource for people who can't participate in a UU congregation.

Sermon Series: 50 Years Forward Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

In recent years, spiritual memoirs have frequently become best-selling books, garnering public acclaim. What distinguishes them as a special subset of autobiography? In this two-part presentation, Dr. Mason will introduce participants to the genre and encourage the preparation of brief personal memoirs by the participants. Workshops will follow later in the month led by the Rev. Tracy Sprowls for those interested in working on their own personal spiritual memoir. In the meantime, award-winning author and Unitarian-Universalist minister Kelly Murphy Mason will read her recently anthologized essay, “Borderline Child of God,” and will lead discussions of this religiously rich topic. Recommended texts: Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir and Testimony: The Transforming Power of Unitarian Universalism Kelly Murphy Mason, PsyD, LCSW, who, as a seminarian formerly served on the staff of All Souls, is currently a Lecturer at Union Theological Seminary and Managing Director of the Psychotherapy & Spirituality Institute. She has been a Community Minister in metropolitan New York for the past twelve years. In her previous career, she was a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a writing instructor. She blogs at TheReverendDr.com.

”Singing for Our Lives” - Drawing upon both UU hymns and the powerful music of the Zomba Prison Project, minister and musician Erin J. Walter will explore the ways music can deepen our understanding of our first principle of Unitarian Universalism, the inherent worth and dignity of every person. Erin J. Walter is the Affiliated Community Minister of Wildflower (UU) Church in South Austin, to be co-ordained there by First UU Austin and Wildflower on Oct. 27, 2017. Erin's calling is rooted in the powerful connection between the arts, justice movements, and multicultural community. She is working to plant the next artist-activist Collective of The Sanctuaries in Central Texas. Erin is a Zumba teacher, bassist in the queer rock band Butch County, and mother of two.

Sermon Series: Life in the Gray Van Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

Sermon Series: Life in the Gray Van Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

Sermon Series: Life in the Gray Van Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

Sermon Title: The Resurrection Changes Everything Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

Sermon Series: The Story Behind the Song Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

Sermon Series: The Story Behind the Song Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

The Community Minister, John, continues the series of the Apostle's Creed reminding us that Jesus Christ is our everlasting strength.Support the show (https://connectionnyc.churchcenter.com/giving)

Sermon Series: Jesus is Greater Than Speaker: David Bondurant, Community Minister

My name is Laura Tuach, Community Minister here at First Church. I am one of five in this community who is ordained or preparing for ordination. We root ourselves here and doing our work out in the world, I'm at Harvard Divinity School helping prepare students for ministry. It's good to be together today on this Second Sunday of Advent. Advent marks the beginning of the Christian liturgical year and while we watch and wait and prepare the way for the mystery that is the birth of Jesus, at this time of year, we also prepare to encounter the whole drama of the Jesus story again.

Sermon delievered by Rev. Dr.  C. Scot Giles, BCC, DNGH, on January 17, 2010. Scot served the Unity Temple Congregation (when it was known as the Unitarian Universalist Church in Oak Park) as its Parish Minister between 1981 and 1991. He is a Board Certified Chaplain, a Doctor of Ministry, and a Diplomate with the National Guild of Hypnotists. He is also the Community Minister of Countryside UU Church in Palatine.Scot is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Guild of Hypnotists. His hospital-affiliated practice focuses on medical hypnotism, and he is especially well-known around the country for his work withcancer patients.Rev. Giles lives in Wheaton, Illinois with his wife and cats. Scot's wife, the Rev. Dr. Lindsay Bates, is the Senior Parish Minister to the Geneva UU Society. He can be reached at ScotGiles@comcast.net or through his website, www.CSGiles.org.

Sermon delivered by Rev. Clare Butterfield on January 10, 2009. Rev. Clare Butterfield is ordained as a Unitarian Universalist Community Minister. Her ministry, as Director of Faith in Place at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, is a call to all people of faith in the region to reflect on their faith's teachings about environmental stewardship and to come together to act on those teachings. As our Community Minister, Clare's eco-ministry is embraced by this congregation. She also facilitates social mission here at Unity Temple, and preaches in our pulpit once or twice each year, to keep us updated on her own work and the work of our social mission.

Sermon delivered by Rev. Clare Butterfield on March 29, 2009. Rev. Butterfield is ordained as a Unitarian Universalist Community Minister. Her ministry, as Director of Faith in Place at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, is a call to all people of faith in the region to reflect on their faith's teachings about environmental stewardship and to come together to act on those teachings.As our Community Minister, Clare's eco-ministry is embraced by this congregation. She also facilitates social mission here at Unity Temple, and preaches in our pulpit once or twice each year, to keep us updated on her own work and the work of our social mission.

Sermon delivered by Rev. Clare Butterfield on November 16, 2008. Rev. Clare Butterfield is ordained as a Unitarian Universalist Community Minister. Her ministry, as Director of Faith in Place at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, is a call to all people of faith in the region to reflect on their faith's teachings about environmental stewardship and to come together to act on those teachings. As our Community Minister, Clare's eco-ministry is embraced by this congregation. She also facilitates social mission here at Unity Temple, and preaches in our pulpit once or twice each year, to keep us updated on her own work and the work of our social mission.

Sermon delivered by Rev. Clare Butterfield on March 30, 2008. Rev. Clare Butterfield is ordained as a Unitarian Universalist Community Minister. Her ministry, as Director of Faith in Place at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, is a call to all people of faith in the region to reflect on their faith's teachings about environmental stewardship and to come together to act on those teachings. As our Community Minister, Clare's eco-ministry is embraced by this congregation. She also facilitates social mission here at Unity Temple, and preaches in our pulpit once or twice each year, to keep us updated on her own work and the work of our social mission.