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Sunday, April 27 at 10:00 AM

"Some Assembly Required"
A Lay Service by Doug Muder

"Don't come to a Unitarian Universalist church to be given a religion," UU minister George Marshall wrote. "Come to develop your own religion." Statements like that can puzzle newcomers, and they often respond with questions that we have a hard time answering to their satisfaction: What good is a church that doesn’t give you a religion? Can UUs believe anything they want? Where are the limits? Newcomer questions are hardest when they are embedded in an unexamined background (unspoken assumptions and unconscious metaphors) that serves UUism badly. To answer these questions well, we need to make the background metaphors explicit and challenge them: What if church is more like an art class or a shop class than like a class teaching answers for a final exam? What if we picture a religious community as a caravan rather than a fortress? Doug is a member of First Parish, an online columnist for UU World magazine, and is working on a book presenting UUism to newcomers.

Sunday, May 4 at 10:00 AM

Music Sunday
coordinated by Brad Conner, First Parish Music & Choir Director

Music Sunday will be especially significant event this year. The adult choir, joined by the Senior & Junior Youth Choirs and KidSing will be singing Spirituals in celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. As a tribute to the 40th anniversary of Dr. King's passing, Harvard Law School Professor and famed author, Randall Kennedy, will be reading King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech as the homily. Kennedy is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the US Supreme Court, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Assoc. His 1997 book Race, Crime, and the Law won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is the author of Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal; Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption; and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.

Sunday, May 11 at 10:00 AM

Rev. Laurie Auffant, guest preacher

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