I hope everyone is having a fun summer! I miss seeing you all and look forward to another exciting year at First Parish this fall!
Drawing from the work of Stephen and Ondrea Levine, the Tibetans, and Ram Dass, Lisa Perry-Wood will guide us to look at ways to face death and dying with grace and gratitude. And we will consider: How differently would we
Hidden behind the giant green screen, restoration work on the front of the church is on schedule and within budget. The work began at the finial atop steeple and has progressed downward past the spire, lantern, and belfry to the … Read the rest
If you have attempted to email Lisa Maria Steinberg in the past month using the dre.fplex@verizon.net email, unfortunately those emails did not get delivered to Lisa Maria due to a change in Verizon’s email service. We apologize for the inconvenience. … Read the rest
Many of us have been witnessing and acting to end unjust incarceration. Lisa Perry-Wood, our guest worship leader this Sunday, has spent the last four years as a prison mentor. Find out what she learned in this work and how
Parents of Youth who finished 8th-12th Grade this spring: Please let Lisa Maria know by Monday, July 17th if your Youth has a strong interest in going on the Service Trip to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in June 2018. … Read the rest
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All are warmly invited to join Temple Isaiah on July 25 from 7-9pm as they host “Out of Many, One”: Teach-In and Solidarity with the Boston Muslim Community. 
What would it mean to be truly present in all of our lived experience? What moments are we missing, caught up in our emotions, distracted by events, worldly and personal. Guest worship leader, Lisa Perry-Wood, will help us explore practices
Next Wednesday, July 12th, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau. The Thoreau Society, located in Concord, is throwing a celebration starting on Tuesday, July 11th through Sunday, July 16th. There will be walks in woods, … Read the rest
We’ve been together for 325 years! First Parish is planning a celebration on Sunday afternoon December 3rd, for the congregation and for the wider Lexington community, to celebrate this occasion. The event will feature a dramatic presentation by Don Cohen … Read the rest
“Please, call me by my true names,” Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh writes. What is a “true” name? How is it different from a plain ol’ name? What are the true names we use for That
It’s exciting to see progress being made on this summer’s renovations to our lovely church. Beautiful, energy efficient windows have now been installed in Parker Hall and all of the other rooms on the east side of the lower level, … Read the rest
In this my second post as your new chair of the Board (I’ll never do one this long again!), I want to recap for you just one portion of last week’s Board meeting—to reveal both a consequential decision made that … Read the rest
General Assembly Highlights
General Assembly (GA) 2017 took place in New Orleans last week. At this annual meeting of our Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), 4,000+ UUs gathered for important business, inspiring workshops, amazing lectures, wonderful worship, beautiful music, and to … Read the rest
More than 4,000 Unitarian Universalists from around the world gathered for five days of workshops, worship, and witness around