Shining through our year of Intention, and all the monthly themes, I see our First Parish choir. Belonging to the choir is to embody compassion, abundance, and courage as we notice with awe the rituals that awaken us to be flourishing together. (All underlined words are monthly themes this year.) To sing together is to engage your spirit and singers’ awareness of the singing of those around them elevates that spirituality. Shared spirituality is shared ministry. Shared ministry is looking...
The View From Here – June 2026
Happy June Church Family! Summer is almost here and with this comes a shift in rhythm at First Parish. Our month’s theme of Flourishing Together reminds me that all of us need rhythm shifts to thrive. My personal flourishing depends upon doing the work I love with you, and also putting it down from time to time. Following our Flower Communion worship service on June 21st, I won’t lead worship until September. Your spiritual flourishing on Sundays will come in the varied, soulful worship...
Faith Exploration – June 2026
The amount of love that surrounds a person when they are ordained is astonishing. I mean this not just during the service itself, nor limited to the laying on of hands with all that intense focus, but also leading up to the day and the return to routines following. And if you are wondering if anything changes during an ordination, any palpable felt sense, I can report that there is. And this change relates to the love that surrounds a person when they are ordained. Because when you are...