May 1, 2022

• Bill Duston
• Thea Shapiro
• Beltane
• May Day
• maypole
• Time for All Ages

Director of Religious Education Thea Shapiro led a May Day service, complete with joyful dancing around the maypole!

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April 24, 2022

• Laura Semple
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• Earth Day
• environment
• Time for All Ages

An Earth Day service, with a special meditation.

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April 17, 2022

• Monica Pilman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• The Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus
• early Christianity
• Easter
• Jesus
• resurrection

Another look at Easter — we rise together. Lots of influence from Robin Meyer’s work.

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April 10, 2022

• Bill Duston
• Cindy Malley
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Vio Malley
• prayer
• Time for All Ages
• Unitarian Universalism

We took a UU-influenced look at prayer.

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April 3, 2022

• Cindy Malley
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• pacifism
• peace
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• Time for All Ages

We considered religious thought and the use of force.

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March 27, 2022

• Bob Williams
• Dave T
• Debbie Eston
• Larry Kaylor
• Rich Lombardy
• Sam Williams
• Susan Tordella-Williams
• hope
• prison
• prison ministry
• Time for All Ages
• transformation

I powerful talk by a formerly incarcerated person. Share-the-Plate for Concord Prison Outreach.

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March 20, 2022

• Larry Kaylor
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• Buddhism
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• Time for All Ages
• Zen

A service to remember and celebrate the life and teachings of the Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh.

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March 13, 2022

• Mike Pilman
• Monica Pilman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Sara Cope
• Thea Shapiro
• hope
• stewardship
• Time for All Ages

Our annual stewardship Sunday, with a couple of special videos.

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March 6, 2022

• Cindy Malley
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• Gottfried Leibniz
• midrashim
• theodicy
• theology
• Time for All Ages
• Ukraine
• Voltaire

Could this possibly be the best of all possible worlds? Does it matter?

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February 27, 2022

• Monica Pilman
• Rev. Jackie Clement
• Rev. Kathryn Pfaltzgraff
• ministry
• Time for All Ages
• women's rights

FCU’s own members and (retired) ministers Rev. Jackie (UU) and Rev. Kathryn (Church of the Brethren) preach!

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February 20, 2022

• Monica Pilman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• A Religion for One World: Art and Symbols for a Universal Religion
• Charles Street Meeting House
• symbolism
• theology
• Time for All Ages
• worship space

We considered Ken Patton’s distinction between the “meeting house” and the “temple”.

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February 13, 2022

• Bill Duston
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• 8th Principle
• anti-racism
• spirituality
• white supremacy culture

We considered the proposed 8th Principle and the connection to spiritual wholeness.

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February 6, 2022

• Martha Childs
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• disenchantment
• enchantment
• mysticism

Can you get your enchantment back?

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January 30, 2022

• Cindy Malley
• Karen Tucker-Barisano
• Thea Shapiro
• happiness
• Time for All Ages

Our lead deacon Cindy Malley preached!

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January 23, 2022

• Cindy Malley
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• competition
• losing
• Time for All Ages
• winning

We considered whether losing can be beautiful…

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January 16, 2022

• Kris Ersland
• Larry Kaylor
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• civil rights
• Martin Luther King
• Time for All Ages

Our annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday service, thinking about voting rights then and now.

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January 9, 2022

• Bill Duston
• Molly Lozeau
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• fear
• online worship
• spiritual practice
• Time for All Ages

We had an online-only worship service on Zoom, thinking about fear.

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