January 12, 2025
Peter Ersland

Flower Communion and Keeper of the Flame 2024
June 16, 2024
- Lynn Courtney
- Monica Pilman
- Peter Ersland
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Thea Shapiro
- Flower Communion
- keeper of the flame
- Time for All Ages
101st Annual Flower Communion, plus our Keeper of the Flame award goes to… Lynn Courtney!
“Healing Images: Chiron and the Hanged Man”
May 5, 2024
- Anna Fadden
- Kristine Tomlinson
- Peter Ersland
- Rochelle Chambless
- Thea Shapiro
- healing
- Time for All Ages
FCU’s own Kristine Tomlinson delivers the sermon!
“The Living Tradition of Change”
November 26, 2023
- Cindy Heiland
- Kris Ersland
- Lori Locascio
- Peter Ersland
- 8th Principle
- Time for All Ages
- Unitarian Universalism
- UU history
FCU lay leaders (and last year’s General Assembly delegates) Kris Ersland, Cindy Heiland, and Lori Locascio lead a service discussing UU values, change, and the proposed amendment to Article II of the UUA bylaws.
“Positively Bright-Sided”
November 12, 2023
- Amy Lavigne
- Peter Ersland
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Thea Shapiro
- Bright-Sided
- positive thinking
- Time for All Ages
I explore “the power of positive thinking” and “the secret” in light of Barbara Ehrenreich’s book, “Bright-Sided”. The Share-the-Plate recipient was the Greater Boston Food Bank.
“Tikkun Olam: A UU Appreciation of Yom Kippur in Light of the Climate Crisis”
September 24, 2023
- Debbie Eston
- Peter Ersland
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Thea Shapiro
- Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth
- civil disobedience
- climate crisis
- environment
- Extinction Rebellion
- forgiveness
- Judaism
- shofar
- Time for All Ages
- Yom Kippur
We take a look at the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur from a UU lens, and also from the lens of climate crisis.
“Necessity Is the Mother of Invention”
May 14, 2023
We acknowledge Mother’s Day, and my sermon continues the discussion of what we can learn from the “Spirituality of the Decades” services we had this year.