April 12, 2023
Easter
“We Rise” – Easter Service 2022
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.
“The Tomb Is Half Full”
April 4, 2021
- Jen Jaksa
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Susan Palmer
- Gospel of Mark
- becoming
- Bible
- Christianity
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- Easter
- online worship
- resurrection
- Time for All Ages
This was our online-only Easter Sunday service.
“Easter Somewhere Up the Road”
April 12, 2020
- Lezli Whitehouse
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Vicki Merriam
- Gospel of Luke
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- Easter
- Jesus
- online worship
- resurrection
- Road to Emmaus
- Time for All Ages
Our 5th online-only worship service, and the first-ever online-only Easter Sunday Service for First Church Unitarian in Littleton, Massachusetts! If you watch this on Youtube and click on “see more”, you can use the blue time stamps to skip forward (or back) to any particular worship element.
“An Esoteric Easter”
April 21, 2019
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
- Christianity
- Easter
- Elaine Pagels
- Gospel of Thomas
- Jesus
On Easter Sunday, I preached about the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas, with help from the work of scholar Elaine Pagels, to think about what it might add to our understanding of “resurrection”.
Endings and Beginnings
April 1, 2018
The Easter story is being told in countless thousands of Christian congregations today. As varied the content of the Sunday services may be from one Christian congregation to the next over the course of a year, they are all on the same page today.