September 15, 2024
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Rich Lombardy
- Thea Shapiro
- Emerson's Essays
- Atman
- Over-Soul
- panentheism
- theology
- Time for All Ages
- Transcendentalism
- Vedanta
theology
“That’s Hot: The Sick Spirituality of the 2000s”
April 2, 2023
- Cindy Malley
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Sara Cope
- Spirituality of the Decades
- 2000s
- spirituality
- theology
- Time for All Ages
The 6th in my series of sermons and services exploring the spiritual and theological messages hidden within the modern decades.
“Is Math God?”
March 19, 2023
- Larry Kaylor
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Sara Cope
- Thea Shapiro
- mathematics
- science
- theology
- Time for All Ages
- Wolf Conservation Center
Did we create math, or did math create us?
“Theology of Baseball”
May 22, 2022
I give my own take on a “baseball theology”. Special music!
“The Best of All Possible Worlds?”
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?
“The Meeting House and the Temple”
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”.
“Whose Are We?”
March 21, 2021
- Bill Duston
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Tatum Joy Hammer
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- interdependent web
- online worship
- theology
- Time for All Ages
We followed up on the March 7 topic “Whose Am I?” with “Whose Are We?” If you watch on YouTube, click “show more” to see the order of service.
Whose Am I?
March 7, 2021
- Larry Lickteig
- Martha Childs
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Rochelle Chambless
- belonging
- commitment
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- online worship
- theology
- Time for All Ages
We began our Soul Matters theme of “commitment” by asking the theological question, “Whose Am I?”
“Theology of Football”
February 7, 2021
Before the Super Bowl, on February 7, 2021, the service was “Theology of Football”! If you watch on YouTube, click on “Show more” to see the Order of Service.
“Spirit in the Sky, Full of Ghosts”
March 29, 2020
- Mark Bucceri
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Vicki Merriam
- astronomy
- coronavirus
- cosmos
- covid-19
- theology
- Time for All Ages
This is the third online-only worship service for First Church Unitarian in Littleton, MA. The title for my reflection this week came from an episode of Cosmos from a few years ago. William Herschel, an astronomer born in 1738, was “the first person to understand that a telescope is a time machine”. With a powerful telescope like Hubble, you can see not only incredibly far away, but also incredibly long ago; you can stand (or sit) on the earth and see an image from before the earth even existed! Even looking at the night sky with your naked eye, you can see celestial objects that might not exist anymore. My reflection considers some of the theological implications that come from the realities of looking up at “a sky full of ghosts”. If you watch on Youtube, go down to the description and click on “show more”. Then you can use the blue time stamps to go forward, or back, to any particular worship element.