Blogs

Update on FCU church closure

Dear Members and Friends of FCU: The Executive Team (Deacons and Standing Committee) and I have discussed the issue of continuing with our church closure in this time of pandemic. We are in unanimous agreement that our building will remain closed until the end of the “church year” (through June). The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)… Read More »

Remaining Socially Connected While Physically Distant

Dear FCU Members and Friends: FCU leadership (the Standing Committee and Deacons, with some Committee on Ministries input as well as staff) has continued to think about how FCU should respond to the COVID-19 Coronavirus. We have decided that our building will stay closed to church gatherings and renters through May 4th, which is the… Read More »

FCU response to COVID-19: “Love in the Time of Coronavirus”

Dear FCU Members and Friends: FCU leadership (the Standing Committee and Deacons, with some Committee on Ministries input as well as staff) has been actively talking about how FCU should respond to the COVID-19 Coronavirus. I have been in touch with many colleagues about their plans, particularly colleagues in our general area. Part of our… Read More »

Installation coming!

I’m very excited for my upcoming installation as the 28th settled minister of First Church Unitarian in Littleton, Massachusetts! It will be March 10th at 3:00 p.m. There will be wonderful music and some amazing ministers and other colleagues sharing their thoughts. There will be delicious food and awesome DJ music afterwards, too. It’s less… Read More »

It was the most wonderful time of the year…

I didn’t post in December, because things were busy! But we had the most wonderful holiday season at First Church Unitarian in Littleton. From “A Unitarian Universalist Appreciation of Hanukkah” (sermon here) to a whole church (multi-generational) “Festival of Lights”, a wonderful Solstice Celebration, and a Christmas Eve Candlelight Service (homily here), it was a… Read More »

A lifetime search…

I was raised as a Unitarian Universalist and by a father who had studied religion for many, many years. He had a B.D. (what would now be an M.Div.) from Lancaster Theological Seminary, and he was raised in the German Reform tradition (now part of the UCC). He thought he might be a minister in… Read More »