Listen to What Breaks your Heart - Palm Sunday, March 25, 2018
on March 25th, 2018
Type your new text here. "Black Panther and the story of Palm Sunday are ultimately both about power and suffering – how we use our power to respond to a suffering world. Do we let our hearts break open or do we keep them closed? Do we place ourselves in the midst of the suffering or above it?" Read the whole sermon here:
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Paying Attention = Prayer
on March 18th, 2018
"Pay attention. When you listen deeply to someone, so deeply that you feel what they are feeling, so deeply that you are not thinking about what you will say next but only holding them in your love, you are praying. When you feel grateful for a kindness offered to you or for a luxury or privilege you enjoy, you are praying. When you regret something hurtful you said or did – or something helpfu... Read More
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Revelation Is Not Sealed - March 11, 2018
on March 11th, 2018
"Revelation is not sealed." That insight today lies at the core of our good news: each of us must cultivate that inner voice, that communion with sheer silence, that relationship with God – whatever word you use. The name doesn’t matter. What matters is that truth not be limited or shut off because we didn’t hear it, didn’t understand it, or didn’t communicate it. Truth speaks through us. R... Read More
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March 2018 Sloop's Log
on March 1st, 2018
Read about the Blue Boat Coffeehouse, Stewardship, the Community Book discussion, the Unity dinner, and the new knitting/fiber arts group: http://conta.cc/2t6S08j... Read More
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We Worship with our Lives - February 11, 2018
on February 11th, 2018
"I rejoice in giving to this church because this church is doing things I rejoice in!" For our annual Stewardship Sunday, Ann Svensen and Alma Morrison reflected on why and how they rejoice in First Parish. Read their sermon here:... Read More
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We Worship with our Lips - February 4, 2018
on February 4th, 2018
"Worship draws us out of ourselves to engage with the holiness at the heart of creation; it invites the marchers into meditation and draws the mystics into engagement; it engages the orderly in the messiness of relationship and the dancers into the patterns of the year. " Read the whole sermon here:... Read More
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February 2018 Sloop's Log Newsletter
on February 1st, 2018
Read about our new worship series "Listening to your Life," the Blue Boat Coffeehouse, the knitting retreat, and all our other services, programs, and events this month here:... Read More
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What Love Looks Like - January 14, 2018
on January 14th, 2018
"With Scituate being 96% white, the statistics I’m about to talk about may feel foreign to you. Though experiences like Joy’s may bring them closer to home. But until we understand these statistics are our statistics, until we understand the people behind the statistics as our people, nothing will change. This may not be your life but it must be our concern if we are to make real that world whe... Read More
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January 2018 Sloop's Log Newsletter
on January 10th, 2018
Read about January worship services, the Potluck Supper & Game Night, what's happening in religious education for adults, youth, and children, and much more here:... Read More
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Where the Light Leads - January 7, 2018
on January 7th, 2018
Once upon a time, long, long ago, not in a galaxy far far away, but in this one, in this world, some scholars say in Iran, some in Turkey, there were Zoroastrian priests studying the skies for wisdom. .... Continue reading:... Read More
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Finding Peace at Rick's Cafe - December 3, 2017
on December 3rd, 2017
Seventy five years ago last Sunday, the movie Casablanca opened. November 26, 1942.... In a week when we’ve had North Korean missile tests bring the threat of war closer to our shores than it’s been since those days of World War II, the President retweeting videos purporting to show Muslim violence, the passing of the Republican tax bill with its topsy turvy values, and the firing for sexual hara... Read More
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December 2017 Sloop's Log
on November 29th, 2017
Read about the longest night service, caroling, Christmas Eve, and many other holiday happenings here:... Read More
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