This Sunday's Service is called "Don't Do Anything, Just Sit There." Whether we need to rest or to be reenergized, spiritual or contemplative practices can help. The theme for the month of October is contemplative practices. In this sermon, Rev. Aaron will introduce some of his favorites and the ones that he finds most meaningful.
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Sunday Service for October 4, 2020
Weekly Update for the beginning of October. Thinking about where and how we have doorway or parking lot conversations in this day and age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAAXW3QjQ_Q
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Weekly Update - October 1st
It is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Please read and share...
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Inside Sexual Harassment's Hidden Toll on Equal Pay
It's On Us
October 1 at 1:28 PM ·
Today is the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It’s also Native Women's Equal Pay Day. It’s on us to recognize the close link between racism, violence and harassment, and inequality in the workplace.
Native women experience crisis levels of harassment and violence contributing to the #WageGap, which can lead to:
-Frequent job changes & career stagnation
-Lost promotions & raises
-Depression & trauma affecting performance
Via MomsRising.org.
It's On Us
October 1 at 1:28 PM ·
Today is the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It’s also Native Women's Equal Pay Day. It’s on us to recognize the close link between racism, violence and harassment, and inequality in the workplace.
Native women experience crisis levels of harassment and violence contributing to the #WageGap, which can lead to:
-Frequent job changes & career stagnation
-Lost promotions & raises
-Depression & trauma affecting performance
Via MomsRising.org.
Join us tomorrow for our morning worship service called "Days of Awe." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxnm9Cc5pzE The service will begin at 10am, but the service premieres at 9:45am.
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Sunday Service for September 27, 2020
The weekly video update!
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Weekly Update for September 25th!
If you are thinking about the court decision about Breonna Taylor's case, here is some more stories and a talk about why awareness of intersectionality matters.
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The urgency of intersectionality
Tomorrow, First Parish in Framingham participates in a nation wide service called: "UU the Vote." Our denomination's president Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray preaches and you will hear from several other Unitarian Universalist ministers in this service. I think this is one of the strengths of virtual services. Join us tomorrow. Gathering images newly updated for the fall begin at 9:45am, our service begins at 10am.
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Sunday Service - October 11 2020 - UU the Vote
First Parish in Framingham joined this awareness campaign this month, illuminating the Meeting House with purple floodlights each night.
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Domestic Violence Roundtable holding Purple Lights Campaign
The Pies Fundraiser will not be held on the Framingham Common this year.
Out of an abundance of caution for pie bakers, volunteers and pie buyers, we will not hold the large annual fall fair Pies on the Common.
We are distanced, but still together. First Parish needs our support.Pies on the Common is an important fundraiser for First Parish in Framingham. If you are able to do so, please consider donating the total dollar amount for 5-20+ Pie Slices, Baking Costs, Whole Pies or Pies 30th year. Donate an amount that has a personal significance to you!
Donate online at https://fpframingham.breezechms.com/give/online?fund_id=606005 or mail your donation to First Parish in Framingham 24 Vernon Street, Framingham.
Annual African American film festival virtual this year. If you haven't checked it before it is a great time to do it.
Dhruba Sen shared a post to the group: Massachusetts Standing Up for Racial Justice.
October 4 at 9:55 PM ·
https://www.facebook.com/332614476765824/posts/3980018105358758/
Martha's Vineyard AA Film Festival
September 28 at 8:40 AM ·
Join us for the MVAAFF 2020
October 6-10, 2020
Exclusively on Facebook.com/mvaaff
#ForTheCulture #SummersFinestFilmFestival #Pivot
Here is the link for tomorrow's intentionally multigenerational service "Sabbath as Resistance" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhjvscyKNsM
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Sunday Service - October 18, 2020
Rev. Aaron's Weekly update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdvWx2kgZn8
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Weekly Update for October 16
Food for thought.
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California passes a first-of-its-kind law to consider reparations for slavery
Dhruba Sen shared a link to the group: Massachusetts Standing Up for Racial Justice.
October 8 at 10:27 AM ·
Courtesy Mikala
Here is the link for tomorrow's service - "Remembering Well - Rebellious Mourning and Collective Grief." https://youtu.be/CkEY9glQKeg
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Sunday Service - October 25, 2020 - Remembering Well
Weekly Update for Yesterday (still is true for today though). Seems like there was a posting error with YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBUVMNeKVMQ&feature=youtu.be
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Weekly Update for October 22
Our youth, our future!
Dhruba Sen
October 20 at 7:02 AM ·
Indian-American teenager Anika Chebrolu has won a $25,000 prize for her work on a potential Covid-19 treatment.
Along with the prize money, 14-year-old Anika has also been conferred the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist” for winning this year’s 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a middle school science competition in the US.
MetroWest BIPOC Meditation Group
Anyone who self-identities as a Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color (BIPOC) who is interested in forming or becoming part of a MetroWest BIPOC Meditation Group, please contact Lili Christian at: ljcommunitycreative@gmail.com to discuss the proposed format and the needs and desires of the participants. This group would center the BIPOC experience rooted in positive, compassionate sharing, listening, meditation and mindfulness principles. If there is interest, we would meet on Zoom to meditate as a supportive community. Meetings would be announced by email.
(Thank you to Jakayla Toney for photo on Unsplash)
Weekly Update video for October 29, with details on spiritual grounding opportunities for election day and following days, and brief preview of the sermon.
Also - I've been getting reports if you use GMail, that our CarePost emails have been ending up in the Promotions folder. So be sure to check there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJOSdm21H0o&t=4s
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Weekly Update for October 29, 2020
Volunteers from several local congregations are supporting a COVID safe Veterans Appreciation Celebration Dinner on November 15.
SUN, NOV 15 AT 7:00 PM EST
Veterans Appreciation Celebration
La Paz Es Diversa is in Baja California Sur.
October 25 at 12:43 PM ·
¿Qué es la intersexualidad?
💛 Mañana se conmemora el Día de la #VisibilidadIntersex, y junto con Red Sin Odio (@redsinodio) les compartimos estas infografías.
💜 Te invitamos a informarte sobre #intersexualidad a través de Brújula Intersexual y del material generado por otras personas intersexuales: brujulaintersexual.org.
💛 Te recordamos que este jueves 29 a las 8 PM tendremos nuestro Conversatorio con Hana Aoi, activista intersexual mexicana y Eva Alcántara, investigadora de la UAM, a través de las redes de La Paz Es Diversa y Red Sin Odio.
#VisibilidadIntersex #SíSoyYAquíEstoy
📌 Te invitamos a seguir a @brujulaintersexual. @ Baja California Sur, Mexico
Adeline Berry is in Huddersfield.
October 22 at 6:40 AM · Instagram ·
As we approach Intersex Awareness Day I felt like paying tribute to @morgancarpenter His wisdom, brilliance, fearlessness and patience is an inspiration to me and many others. I recommend reading this great and comprehensive paper of his if you have an interest in intersex rights. Like many other struggles it touches all of us in some way, some of us more than others. #intersex https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1016/j.rhm.2016.06.003?needAccess=true&
Intersex Asia
October 25 at 8:16 PM ·
Happy Intersex Awareness Day!!!
#IntersexAwarenessDay
#IntersexAsiaHistory
Today is Intersex Awareness Day. And here is some great news.
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Boston Children's Will Stop Performing Some Intersex Surgeries
Weekly Update for November 5th:
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Weekly Update for November 5, 2020
Take a break and enjoy this beautiful, inspiring song. Thank you Li for sharing!
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CCCD: Change is Coming
Here's the link for tomorrow's service! Remember daylight savings time ends early in the morning on Sunday!
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The Election Sermon
In 2016, Unitarian Universalists voted to pay special attention to learning our history and rethinking Thanksgiving this year. Now is the time to gather and think together, and to celebrate differently, given that our usual travels and traditions for Thanksgiving holidays are ostensibly canceled. Please sign up, and help spread the word about the fantastic community programs and documentary film screenings being offered for the Harvest the Power Justice Convergence & Teach-In, November 19-26.
VIEW THE SCHEDULE – SIGN UP NOW – HELP SPREAD THE WORD
This Thanksgiving, Harvest the Power of love for justice! Sign up now for the Harvest the Power Justice Convergence & Teach-in, November 19-26. Harvest the Power, inspired by Jim Scott’s hymn “Gather the Spirit”, is a six week confluence of Unitarian Universalist Justice ministries (that began Oct. 21) to deepen our relationships, draw on the sources of wholeness and strength in which we are rooted, and move together in powerful ways for justice. View the program schedule here: https://www.uumfe.org/2020/11/10/program-schedule-harvest-the-power-justice-convergence-and-teach-in-nov-19-26/
Weekly Update for this week. On Sunday join us at 10am for a joint service with several local congregations using the link posted in the comments below.
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November 13 2020 - Weekly Update
Top 50 Influential People of Color in MetroWest
Dhruba Sen shared a post to the group: Massachusetts Standing Up for Racial Justice.
November 12 at 12:53 PM ·
FYI
Kristen L. Pope
November 12 at 12:23 PM ·
BEYOND excited and humbled to be honored in the inaugural "Top 50 Most Influencial Business People of Color" in the Boston suburbs! This list is outstanding and I don't take the inclusion lightly. Thank you Newton-Needham Regional Chamber and Colette Phillps for seeing us. Congratulations to all of the honorees! GOD IS GOOD!!! Special shout out to: Angela Pitter Melissa Patrick Latoyia Edwards
Complete list of honorees here: https://www.nnchamber.com/bpoc
This Thanksgiving, Harvest the Power of love for justice! Sign up now for the Harvest the Power Justice Convergence & Teach-in, November 19-26. Harvest the Power, inspired by Jim Scott’s hymn “Gather the Spirit”, is a six week confluence of Unitarian Universalist Justice ministries (that began Oct. 21) to deepen our relationships, draw on the sources of wholeness and strength in which we are rooted, and move together in powerful ways for justice. View the program schedule here: https://www.uumfe.org/2020/11/10/program-schedule-harvest-the-power-justice-convergence-and-teach-in-nov-19-26/
TED Talk reflection on "We the People."
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The truth behind 'We the People' - the three most misunderstood words in US history
Join us tomorrow at 10 am for our multigenerational service:
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Sunday Service - November 22 2020 - Thanksgiving Buffet
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Free Online Event | Is There a Cure for Racism?
Indigenous people are still here and still resisting.
Kim Houde shared a post to the group: United American Indians of New England (UAINE group).
November 20 at 8:19 AM ·
Mayuk Manuel is with Kanahus Freedom Manuel and 4 others.
November 20 at 1:27 AM ·
So excited to be a part of a wonderfully creative team building tiny houses on wheels to strategically stop Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Putting our bodies on the FRONTLINE in Defense of our Indigenous Homelands. #TinyHouseWarriors #secwepemcsafezone
Weekly update for November 20, 2020.
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November 20 - Weekly Update
"While we must not turn away from the grief of losing 34 transgender people - nearly all trans women of color - to transantagonistic violence this year, may we also take a moment today to uplift and honor the resilience of the trans and nonbinary people still in our lives and in our communities.
We especially echo President Susan Frederick-Gray's deep gratitude, shared in the message below, for the trans and nonbinary leaders in Unitarian Universalism who are leading from the liberating, life-giving truth at the heart of our theology." #TDoR2020
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A Prayer for Trans Day of Remembrance 2020
Pie With Spirits
"This is the very pumpkin pie
my grandmother made—almost.
She was a modern woman
who knew how to follow recipes.
Receipts, she called them,
because they had been received.
She had a rule for pie crust that was constant
until, from time to time, it changed.
I have that rule, in turn, and it had moved on,
just a bit, from where she left it.
This is my special shared moment
with her, departed a quarter century.
As I work, I am all ages of myself,
and the thought of my tall son comes to join us,
though he hardly knew her.
He makes pies with wild abandon,
sculpting them from material and artistry.
He has received pie somehow at the level of soul.
The three of us make pie together,
preheating the oven,
cutting butter into flour, adding water,
flouring a board, rolling the crust.
To honor her, I follow the recipe.
To honor him, I change just one thing.
To honor myself, I take my time and smile.
—Mary Wellemeyer
Admire the Moon
Skinner House
November 22 at 11:00 AM ·
Pie With Spirits
"This is the very pumpkin pie
my grandmother made—almost.
She was a modern woman
who knew how to follow recipes.
Receipts, she called them,
because they had been received.
She had a rule for pie crust that was constant
until, from time to time, it changed.
I have that rule, in turn, and it had moved on,
just a bit, from where she left it.
This is my special shared moment
with her, departed a quarter century.
As I work, I am all ages of myself,
and the thought of my tall son comes to join us,
though he hardly knew her.
He makes pies with wild abandon,
sculpting them from material and artistry.
He has received pie somehow at the level of soul.
The three of us make pie together,
preheating the oven,
cutting butter into flour, adding water,
flouring a board, rolling the crust.
To honor her, I follow the recipe.
To honor him, I change just one thing.
To honor myself, I take my time and smile.
—Mary Wellemeyer
Admire the Moon
This week's weekly update video.
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Weekly Update for November 24 2020
You can watch our interfaith thanksgiving service on FB live as well.
Framingham Interfaith Community Association was live.
November 24 at 6:05 PM ·
Join the Framingham Interfaith Community Association for our Annual Thanksgiving Service tonight at 7pm, details are in the flyer attached.
Framingham Interfaith Community Association
November 18 at 8:01 AM ·
Wow! Let the Holiday Cheer begin!
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Framingham High Graduate Creates 3,800-Light, Holiday Musical Display For Community - Framingham SOURCE
Let the Holiday Scavenger Hunt begin! (hint, I just noticed a couple near the Common)
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City of Framingham Launches Scavenger Hunt With Prizes - Framingham SOURCE
Special concert to support Family Promise MetroWest this Saturday.
https://youtu.be/i6nYvLoXJQ4
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Keeping the Promise 2020: A Virtual Concert
The CARES Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, temporarily allows non-itemizers to take a charitable deduction of up to $300 per taxpayer for cash contributions made in 2020. This one-time allowance expires December 31, 2020.
Previously, charitable contributions could only be deducted if taxpayers itemized their deductions.
For more information, visit IRS.gov or see "Do You Qualify for a $300 Tax Deduction Under the CARES Act?" from Kiplinger.
For the purposes of this deduction, qualifying organizations are those that are religious, charitable, educational, scientific or literary in purpose.
Braver/Wiser is a weekly email you can sign up to receive every Wednesday morning.
Rev. Robin Tanner writes “Perhaps this is hope: a holy impatience at its most elemental and embodied form, which dares to dream while fiercely loving the world today.”
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A Holy Impatience
$300 Deduction Expires December 31
The CARES Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, temporarily allows non-itemizers to take a charitable deduction of up to $300 per taxpayer for cash contributions made in 2020. This one-time allowance expires December 31, 2020.
Previously, charitable contributions could only be deducted if taxpayers itemized their deductions. For the purposes of this deduction, qualifying organizations are those that are religious, charitable, educational, scientific or literary in purpose.
For more information, visit IRS.gov or see "Do You Qualify for a $300 Tax Deduction Under the CARES Act?" from Kiplinger.
On this first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray offers us a message of hope and resilience. May your candles offer light in the darkness and your faith guide you through during this holiday. Happy Hanukkah.
[Image is of a fully lit silver menorah. It includes text that reads "At sundown, as candles are lit for the first night of Hanukkah, let us remember: Even when challenges seem insurmountable, hope is always present. A small group of faithful, committed people really can create change. Faith is what calls us to move forward, in love and hope, even when we can't know how it will all turn out. Happy Hanukkah, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray."]
Unitarian Universalist Association is with Gary Loutzenhiser-Cárdenas and 2 others.
4 hrs ·
On this first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray offers us a message of hope and resilience. May your candles offer light in the darkness and your faith guide you through during this holiday. Happy Hanukkah.
[Image is of a fully lit silver menorah. It includes text that reads "At sundown, as candles are lit for the first night of Hanukkah, let us remember: Even when challenges seem insurmountable, hope is always present. A small group of faithful, committed people really can create change. Faith is what calls us to move forward, in love and hope, even when we can't know how it will all turn out. Happy Hanukkah, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray."]
The joint community service at the end of December is being hosted by First Parish Sudbury this year. You can join in from the comfort of your home this year.
First Parish of Sudbury
Yesterday at 11:55 AM ·
Join First Parish of Sudbury, First Parish in Wayland, & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
The CARES Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, temporarily allows non-itemizers to take a charitable deduction of up to $300 per taxpayer for cash contributions made in 2020. This one-time allowance expires December 31, 2020.
Previously, charitable contributions could only be deducted if taxpayers itemized their deductions.
For more information, visit IRS.gov or see "Do You Qualify for a $300 Tax Deduction Under the CARES Act?" from Kiplinger.
Weekly update - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74FAU8FYeRY
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Weekly Update for December 4
The weather outside maybe frightful...but there are no snow days on YouTube. Join us at 10 am tomorrow for our service "Divinely Imperfect" https://youtu.be/rYj-LH7uDrs
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December 6 2020 - Sunday Service - Divinely Imperfect
Light a candle and join us online for Christmas Eve Service, December 24 at 7 p.m.
THU, DEC 24 AT 7:00 PM EST
Christmas Eve Service: Lessons and Carols
"In the church that I serve, we light the Advent wreath candles to help us remember we are in a time of waiting for hope to get itself born into this world," Rev. Elea Kemler explains. "On the third Sunday, we light the candle for Joy; it often feels like bad timing.
Holiday stress levels have risen by then, along with that particular ache many of us feel at this season: a mixture of longing and loneliness, kind of like homesickness, but for a place we have never been."
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Open to Joy
The CARES Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, temporarily allows non-itemizers to take a charitable deduction of up to $300 per taxpayer for cash contributions made in 2020. This one-time allowance expires December 31, 2020.
Previously, charitable contributions could only be deducted if taxpayers itemized their deductions.
For more information, visit IRS.gov or see "Do You Qualify for a $300 Tax Deduction Under the CARES Act?" from Kiplinger.
The story of Hanukkah is a story about having just enough. How does this story of old inspire our 2020 lives? How can this holiday help us understand the times we are living in?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsVZxRWtSnA&feature=youtu.be
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Sunday Service - December 13 2020 - Just Enough
On this first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray offers us a message of hope and resilience. May your candles offer light in the darkness and your faith guide you through during this holiday. Happy Hanukkah.
[Image is of a fully lit silver menorah. It includes text that reads "At sundown, as candles are lit for the first night of Hanukkah, let us remember: Even when challenges seem insurmountable, hope is always present. A small group of faithful, committed people really can create change. Faith is what calls us to move forward, in love and hope, even when we can't know how it will all turn out. Happy Hanukkah, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray."]
Unitarian Universalist Association is with Gary Loutzenhiser-Cárdenas and 2 others.
December 10 at 1:35 PM ·
On this first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray offers us a message of hope and resilience. May your candles offer light in the darkness and your faith guide you through during this holiday. Happy Hanukkah.
[Image is of a fully lit silver menorah. It includes text that reads "At sundown, as candles are lit for the first night of Hanukkah, let us remember: Even when challenges seem insurmountable, hope is always present. A small group of faithful, committed people really can create change. Faith is what calls us to move forward, in love and hope, even when we can't know how it will all turn out. Happy Hanukkah, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray."]
The joint community service at the end of December is being hosted by First Parish Sudbury this year. You can join in from the comfort of your home this year.
First Parish of Sudbury
December 9 at 11:55 AM ·
Join First Parish of Sudbury, First Parish in Wayland, & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
The CARES Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, temporarily allows non-itemizers to take a charitable deduction of up to $300 per taxpayer for cash contributions made in 2020. This one-time allowance expires December 31, 2020.
Previously, charitable contributions could only be deducted if taxpayers itemized their deductions.
For more information, visit IRS.gov or see "Do You Qualify for a $300 Tax Deduction Under the CARES Act?" from Kiplinger.
UU YOUNG ADULTS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE - Winter Solstice Climate Reflection
Tuesday, December 22 at 5pm PT / 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET
**Open to Youth & Young Adults (ages 14-35)**
Register here https://uuministry4earth.z2systems.com/track//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=uuministry4earth&emailId=df6016b5fc097b47a9340e908dc9e449dm9193501df6&&linkId=17016&targetUrl=https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudeCrrDovGdNhP8-y-QNqn6_2lKei-19L
Youth and young adults will share about their local ecosystems and climate change, before opening up for discussion and reflection to ground us in the winter ahead.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: UUYACJ Winter Solstice Climate Reflection. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Celebrate the Winter Solstice!
The Winter Solstice, falling on Monday, December 21, 2020, marks the shortest day and longest night of the year, and the beginning of a new season. For many traditions, it is an invitation to pause, reflect, and honor the sacredness of both light and darkness. Seasonal transitions, and winter especially, may also offer an important window into revealing how climate change is affecting local ecosystems, and our own physical and emotional responses to these shifts.
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Celebrate the 2020 Winter Solstice! | Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth
Winter Sequence
"Grey skies over my head,
throw yourselves like quilts over my busy life
and remind me to sit down and rest.
Stars of winter,
Orion's sash sparkling
across the heavens, remind me by your distance
that, compared to the infinity of the universe,
every single thing I struggle with on earth
is small, parochial and hardly universal in scope.
Great music of the season,
glowing with
angel-songs and filigreed with great mysteries,
remind me that my own birth,
like the births of all people in this room,
was no less mysterious
than that ancient and celebrated birth,
no less brimming with wonder,
for all children that come into the world
have lives as precious to them
as Jesus' life was to him.
So now come, Love greater than my longing,
silence greater than fatigue of tongues,
and haul my heart away from the undue frenzy of
the season, and bestow it to rest, proportion and
the haunting dark beauty of winter's long nights."
Mark Belletini
Sonata for Voice and Silence
Skinner House
December 20 at 11:00 AM ·
Winter Sequence
"Grey skies over my head,
throw yourselves like quilts over my busy life
and remind me to sit down and rest.
Stars of winter,
Orion's sash sparkling
across the heavens, remind me by your distance
that, compared to the infinity of the universe,
every single thing I struggle with on earth
is small, parochial and hardly universal in scope.
Great music of the season,
glowing with
angel-songs and filigreed with great mysteries,
remind me that my own birth,
like the births of all people in this room,
was no less mysterious
than that ancient and celebrated birth,
no less brimming with wonder,
for all children that come into the world
have lives as precious to them
as Jesus' life was to him.
So now come, Love greater than my longing,
silence greater than fatigue of tongues,
and haul my heart away from the undue frenzy of
the season, and bestow it to rest, proportion and
the haunting dark beauty of winter's long nights."
Mark Belletini
Sonata for Voice and Silence
Available at inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop http://bit.ly/1NM2sAS
Join us for a holiday season pageant like no other! This multi-generational holiday service is inspired by Patricia Polocco's story, The Trees of the Dancing Goats, and brought to life by our youth and young-at-heart. https://youtu.be/skRbkq1f8EY
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Sunday Service - December 20 2020
Here's the weekly update for December 18th 2020: https://youtu.be/2j9jH0A1q5U
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Weekly Update for December 18
The critical environmental program that were cut by this administration and what it will take to really make change.
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A former EPA program leader describes the path forward for environmental justice
Join First Parish of Sudbury, First Parish in Wayland, & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
The joint community service at the end of December is being hosted by First Parish Sudbury this year. You can join in from the comfort of your home this year.
Join First Parish of Sudbury, First Parish in Wayland & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
The joint community service at the end of December is being hosted by First Parish Sudbury this year. You can join in from the comfort of your home this year.
Join First Parish of Sudbury
, First Parish in Wayland
, & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist
online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
Our 4:30 pm service has begun, join us here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YICaqfjvAIo
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Christmas Eve Family Service - 4:30 pm - First Parish in Framingham
Here's the link for our Christmas Eve service, which premieres at 6:45pm with some piano and organ preludes, and starts at 7pm. Join us, won't you? https://youtu.be/QIVnldSPJSM
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A Service of Lessons and Carols - 7:00 pm
UU YOUNG ADULTS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE - Winter Solstice Climate Reflection
Tuesday, December 22 at 5pm PT / 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET
**Open to Youth & Young Adults (ages 14-35)**
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Youth and young adults will share about their local ecosystems and climate change, before opening up for discussion and reflection to ground us in the winter ahead.
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Join us tomorrow at 10 am for worship which includes two rituals to begin the new year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o48jAbHHCfA&feature=youtu.be
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Letting Go and Holding On - January 3 2021
Join First Parish of Sudbury, First Parish in Wayland, & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
The joint community service at the end of December is being hosted by First Parish Sudbury this year. You can join in from the comfort of your home this year.
Join First Parish of Sudbury, First Parish in Wayland & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
The joint community service at the end of December is being hosted by First Parish Sudbury this year. You can join in from the comfort of your home this year.
Join First Parish of Sudbury
, First Parish in Wayland
, & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist
online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
Our 4:30 pm service has begun, join us here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YICaqfjvAIo
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Christmas Eve Family Service - 4:30 pm - First Parish in Framingham
Here's the link for our Christmas Eve service, which premieres at 6:45pm with some piano and organ preludes, and starts at 7pm. Join us, won't you? https://youtu.be/QIVnldSPJSM
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A Service of Lessons and Carols - 7:00 pm
Rev. Erin Walter was our guest preacher in November. This week, she wrote this piece for Braver/Wiser.
"I’ve lost count of the songs I’ve written (or half-written) while sheltering in place," Rev. Erin Walter recounts. "Most are terrible and you’ll never hear them, and that’s fine. They’re here to process grief with me and tap into hope and determination as I fight to keep my creative process—normally collective—alive in isolation."
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Keep Singing
Join us tomorrow at 10 am for worship which includes two rituals to begin the new year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o48jAbHHCfA&feature=youtu.be
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Letting Go and Holding On - January 3 2021
Join First Parish of Sudbury, First Parish in Wayland, & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
The joint community service at the end of December is being hosted by First Parish Sudbury this year. You can join in from the comfort of your home this year.
Join First Parish of Sudbury, First Parish in Wayland & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
The joint community service at the end of December is being hosted by First Parish Sudbury this year. You can join in from the comfort of your home this year.
Join First Parish of Sudbury
, First Parish in Wayland
, & First Parish in Framingham Unitarian Universalist
online on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 10 am for Reframing 2020! Connect via the link on the homepage of https://fpsudbury.org or the FPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYJ6TV9BMnMCm7WtoehmOA. All are welcome!
I highly recommend folks check out this opportunity. And if your response to the topic is to tense up, this course addresses exactly that. Each gathering starts with meditation and chair yoga, helping you to relax, and feel centered. I completed this course in the fall and I always looked forward to the meditation and stretches, and then was surprised that I wasn't quite as tired as I thought and I was ready to engage.
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Local Event: Mindful Anti-Racism: A Radical Exploration of Race and Resilience
This week's Braver/Wiser reflections come from a good friend of Rev. Aaron, the Rev. Kristin Grassel Schmidt.
"It’s been tough to make sense of last Wednesday’s attack on the Capitol, let alone what we’re called to do in its aftermath. Many leaders have called for healing, forgiveness, and unity. Now, I believe in forgiveness, and I very much want healing and unity for this nation. But none of those things is possible without repentance, accountability, and a full reckoning of wrongs done."
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Finding Our Way
The study to change the Massachusetts Commonwealth Flag goes ahead.
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Our commonwealth’s racist symbols
Friends - here is the link for our intentionally multigenerational service, it premieres at 9:45 with the service beginning at 10am. David Mendelsohn shares a beautiful version of Spirit of Life as the prelude starting right at 10 am, so be sure to join us right at the beginning! https://youtu.be/Q6ZkuoK0JnI
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"Prophetic Imagination" - Sunday Service January 10 2020
Rev. Erin Walter was our guest preacher in November. This week, she wrote this piece for Braver/Wiser.
"I’ve lost count of the songs I’ve written (or half-written) while sheltering in place," Rev. Erin Walter recounts. "Most are terrible and you’ll never hear them, and that’s fine. They’re here to process grief with me and tap into hope and determination as I fight to keep my creative process—normally collective—alive in isolation."
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Keep Singing
Tonight we are going to toll the bell at first parish 40 times in remembrance of 400,000 people have died in the United States from the coronavirus.
Our congregation will be taking part in the COVID-19 Memorial. We will toll the bell 40 times starting at 5:30 pm today to remember the 400,000 people who have died from COVID-19, in the United States. I hope to stream the tolling from this page. (1 toll for every 10,000 who have died).
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COVID-19 Memorial | Inauguration of Joe Biden & Kamala Harris 2021
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Martin Luther King, Jr - Pastor, Prophet, Trekker - Sunday Service - January 17 2021
Here is the link for tomorrow's service "Martin Luther King, Jr - Pastor, Prophet, Trekker." https://youtu.be/rYGQRC9n6vQ The service premieres at 9:45 and begins at 10am. Hope to see you in the chat.
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Martin Luther King, Jr - Pastor, Prophet, Trekker - Sunday Service - January 17 2021
The return of the weekly update!
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Weekly Update - January 15 2021
I highly recommend folks check out this opportunity. And if your response to the topic is to tense up, this course addresses exactly that. Each gathering starts with meditation and chair yoga, helping you to relax, and feel centered. I completed this course in the fall and I always looked forward to the meditation and stretches, and then was surprised that I wasn't quite as tired as I thought and I was ready to engage.
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Local Event: Mindful Anti-Racism: A Radical Exploration of Race and Resilience
Join us tomorrow at 10 am, (with visual and musical preludes starting at 9:45) for our service "Both, Between, and Neither." Li Kynvi, FPF member, and soon to be congregational intern at First Parish Church of Groton will preach. It is a powerful service that you won't want to miss. https://youtu.be/Q2BuQ_1BLeg
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Both, Between, and Neither - Li Kynvi, Guest Preacher
Tonight we are going to toll the bell at first parish 40 times in remembrance of 400,000 people have died in the United States from the coronavirus.
Our congregation will be taking part in the COVID-19 Memorial. We will toll the bell 40 times starting at 5:30 pm today to remember the 400,000 people who have died from COVID-19, in the United States. I hope to stream the tolling from this page. (1 toll for every 10,000 who have died).
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COVID-19 Memorial | Inauguration of Joe Biden & Kamala Harris 2021
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Martin Luther King, Jr - Pastor, Prophet, Trekker - Sunday Service - January 17 2021
Here is the link for tomorrow's service "Martin Luther King, Jr - Pastor, Prophet, Trekker." https://youtu.be/rYGQRC9n6vQ The service premieres at 9:45 and begins at 10am. Hope to see you in the chat.
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Martin Luther King, Jr - Pastor, Prophet, Trekker - Sunday Service - January 17 2021
The return of the weekly update!
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Weekly Update - January 15 2021
Here's the link for tomorrow's service "Introduction to Civic Biomimicry." It premieres at 9:45 with our video and musical prelude. There's a special piano prelude at 10am. https://youtu.be/iARo8rbFtKI
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Introduction to Civic Biomimicry - Sunday Service - January 31 2021 - First Parish in Framingham
Here's the weekly update for January 29th, 2021 https://youtu.be/RObNhnNMATc
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Weekly Update for January 29th
This morning's Braver/Wiser reflection comes from Rev. Aisha Ansano, who writes about an essay she wrote in 8th grade English class: "Even though I knew it would make people uncomfortable, even when I knew it wasn’t exactly what I was being invited to do, I named the truth as I perceived it, because it didn’t feel like there was any other option."
https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/naming-truth
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Naming the Truth
Tonight we are going to toll the bell at first parish 40 times in remembrance of 400,000 people have died in the United States from the coronavirus.
Our congregation will be taking part in the COVID-19 Memorial. We will toll the bell 40 times starting at 5:30 pm today to remember the 400,000 people who have died from COVID-19, in the United States. I hope to stream the tolling from this page. (1 toll for every 10,000 who have died).
TUE, JAN 19
COVID-19 Memorial | Inauguration of Joe Biden & Kamala Harris 2021
In case you missed it or want t o see it again...
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Martin Luther King, Jr - Pastor, Prophet, Trekker - Sunday Service - January 17 2021
Here's the link to tomorrow's service, we go live at 9:45, with the service starting at 10 am: https://youtu.be/NZuLgXvzTWU
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Even to Question Truly Is An Answer
Weekly update video is available now: https://youtu.be/SZa9IZSnqmg
This Sunday's service will be live on YouTube. We are seeking your questions which we will answer during the service.
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Weekly Update for February 3 2021
If you missed it on Sunday or want to experience it again, here is the service on Introduction to Civic Biomimicry by Rev. Aaron Stockwell. We begin with Ben Long piano... enjoy!
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Introduction to Civic Biomimicry - Sunday Service - January 31 2021 - First Parish in Framingham
Here's the link for tomorrow's service "Introduction to Civic Biomimicry." It premieres at 9:45 with our video and musical prelude. There's a special piano prelude at 10am. https://youtu.be/iARo8rbFtKI
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Introduction to Civic Biomimicry - Sunday Service - January 31 2021 - First Parish in Framingham
Here's the weekly update for January 29th, 2021 https://youtu.be/RObNhnNMATc
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Weekly Update for January 29th
This morning's Braver/Wiser reflection comes from Rev. Aisha Ansano, who writes about an essay she wrote in 8th grade English class: "Even though I knew it would make people uncomfortable, even when I knew it wasn’t exactly what I was being invited to do, I named the truth as I perceived it, because it didn’t feel like there was any other option."
https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/naming-truth
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Naming the Truth
Lewis Latimer, ( 1848-1928) was an engineer and inventor. He enlisted in Civil War at age 16 after lying about his age. He was given honorable discharge. While working at a patent law office, he taught himself mechanical drawing and drafting through observing the work of others. He helped draft the telephone patentlexander Graham BellA. Worked for Thomas Edison and Hia on he developmentt of incanent lighting, he also creratated and patented a filament which produced a longer lasting lightbulb. Many beleive Edison stole Latimer's and others ideas when inventing the lightbulb. Lewis helped install the first electric plants in New YOrk City, Philadelphia and Montreal. oieHe reHe reeivedceived 8 patents in his life, the first in 1874 when he improved water closets on passenger train cares.s '''sr'sLewis Latimer ( 1848-1928) engineer and inventoHe enlisted in the Civil War at age 16 after lying about his age, and received an hoborablenorable disharge. While working at a patent office, he talughtught himself mechanical drawing. He helped draft the teleponehone patent for
#CelebratingBlackHistoryMonth!
Benjamin Bradley was born in 1830. While he was technically still enslaved, he worked at the U.S. Naval Academy to help set up experiments for the teachers. He was able to keep $5 of his salary a month; the rest went to the plantation owner. He began to experiment with scarp metal and built steam engines, which could run a small boat. By 1856 he had created the first United States steam engine big enough to power a war ship. With the money he earned for his steam engines, Bradley was able to purchase his own freedom. (From UrbanIntellectuals.com)
Weekly Update Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aybhL1Osa5g
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Weekly Update for February 11 2021
Check out this online event, an opportunity to Celebrate Black History Month together online.
SAT, FEB 13 AT 2:00 PM EST
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2021 ON SAT FEB 13 FROM 2-7 PM COME & GO
Do you love potato chips? Thank inventor and chef African American George Crum. He accidentally invented the potato chip when working at the Cary Moon's Lake House in 1853 [!] in Lake Saratoga, NY. A diner complained that the fries were too thick, so Crum made thinner fries--and the diner still complained. Crum then sliced the potatos so thin they could not be picked up by a fork., ti frustrate the diner, but he loved them and the rest is history! His invention became known as Crum's Saratoga Chips when other locals asked for them. He opened his own restaurant, Crum's House near Saratoga Lake which would have potato chips on every table. #CelebratingBlackHistoryMonth
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"The Akan tribe in Ghana have a word, Sankofa, symbolized by a bird with its head turned around to take an egg from its back," explains Jabari S. Jones. "The Sankofa heron illustrates a Twi proverb: 'It is no sin to go back and fetch what you have forgotten.'
I've adopted the practice of spiritual reconnection with my ancestors to heal intergenerational trauma, because we cannot heal and grow at the same time. I read books on whiteness and on Black history to better understand how I got here and imagine where I want to go."
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Radicalizing Myself
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Meet inventor Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961). Throughout his life he held 60 patents with around 40 of them related to refrigeration. He invented radio transmitter, portable x-ray machines and a snow machine for doctors in his local area, Hallock, Minnesota.
He formed a partnership with Numero, the head of Ultraphone Sound Systems to create the U. S. Thermo Control Company, where he developed a refrigeration system called the Thermo King. Jones helped created the transportation of frozen foods and made U. S. Thermo Control Company a multimillion dollar company.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/jones-frederick-mckinley-1893-1961/
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Meet Tammera L. Holmes. She is the President and CEO of AeroStar Consulting Corp, and Founder of AeroStar Avion Institute. Her company's mission is to enhance, promote and support the global impact of aviation and aeronautical career path opportunities for youth and young adults, particularly women, people of color, and underserved youth. AeroStar was founded in 2008, has served over 2000 students and partnered with Boeing, United Airlines and NASA. Holmes has been indicted into the Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame, won the Bessie Coleman Aviation Award, and STEM Entrepreneur of the Year from the Egretha Foundation
https://avioninstitute.org/team/tammera-l-holmes/
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Today's Braver/Wiser reflection:
When Rev. Lora Brandis went into a hospital chapel last year on Ash Wednesday, she recalls, "I wanted someone to impose the ashes on my head with the usual words: 'Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.'
Those were the words spoken by my colleague as we gathered just a week earlier [at] my daughter Zoe’s memorial service. Rev. Aaron [White] prayed, and placed ashes in each of our hands saying, 'From dust we come, to dust we will return.'"
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Connected by Mortality
Weekly Update for February 17, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2qpXlU6z-g
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February 17 2021 - Weekly Update
Rev. Aaron has been running a reading poetry as a spiritual practice group on Wednesdays morning and some Tuesday evenings. Here's the poem from this morning's group -
Love After Love
By Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
#CelebratingBlackHistoryMonth Sissieretta Jones (1869-1933) was a soprano singer and considered one of the greatest singers of her time. During the late 1800s, Jones performed in the White House, Boston's Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and many other places. In 1888 she became the first African American to sing at Wallack's Theater on Broadway. She formed the Black Patti Troubadours in the 1890s, which became a very popular group of the time and launched the careers of several African American performers. In 1892 she became the first African American to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. (From Black History Flashcards, www.urbanIntellectuals.com)
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Meet Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) American civil aviator, know as "Queen Bess." She was the first woman of African-American and Native American descent to hold a pilot license and the first American to earn an international pilot's license. In 1921 she received her international pilot license in France because no flight school in America would train a woman of color.
Coleman’s dream was to own a plane and to open her own flight school. She gave speeches and showed films of her air tricks in churches, theaters, and schools to earn money. In 1926 she fell to her death while practicing for one of her famous stunt shows. Evidence later indicated her pan may have been tampered with.
Famous activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett performed the funeral service to honor Coleman in Chicago. In 1931, the Challenger Pilots’ Association of Chicago started a tradition of flying over Coleman’s grave every year. By 1977, African American women pilots formed the Bessie Coleman Aviators Club. In 1995, the “Bessie Coleman Stamp” was made to remember all of her accomplishments. She was at last inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2006.
(From Black History Flashcards, UrbanIntellectuals.com)
#CelebrateBlackHistoryMonth You've probably heard the name Medgar Evers (1925-1963), but you may not know as much about his life as his death. He was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and enact social justice and voting rights.
He was a Secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He worked on voting rights and registration, economic opportunity, access to public facilities and other changes within a segregated society. He was murdered by a member of the KKK. His murder and resulting trials inspired civil rights protests as well as numerous works of art, music and film.
(From Black History Flashcards, UrbanItellectuals.com)
#CelebrateBlackHistoryMonth The Queen of Sheba, a biblical figure. In Sheba, women played an important role in society and were equal to men in nearly all spheres, with civil, religious and military rights and duties. The Queen of Sheba figures in Jewish, Muslim and Christian, particularly Ethiopian Christian traditions. Sheba was also the oldest and most important of the South Arabian kingdoms.
Join us tomorrow morning for our service "First Source Personal." https://youtu.be/zkHL1W3OVmc
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First Source Personal - Sunday Service - February 21 2021
#CelebrateBlackHistoryMonth Meet Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannon (1918-2015) African American writer and historian. He is considered to be one of the most prominent Afrocentric scholars by some in the Black Nationalist community. He authored 49 books, primarily on ancient Nile Valley civilization and its influence on Western cultures. In 1945 he received doctoral degrees in cultural anthropology and Moorish history from the University of Havana and the University of Barcelona, Spain. He was appointed chairman of the African Studies Committee of the newly founded United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations, UNESCO, in 1945.
#CelebrateBlackHistoryMonth Meet Maggie Lena Walker (1864-1934) first female bank president of any race. She was at last inducted into Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2001.
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BLACK IN TIME: A Moment In OUR History
THE FIRST BANK IN AMERICA TO BE RUN BY A WOMAN OF ANY ETHNIC GROUP, OPENS (NOVEMBER 3rd 1903)
St. Luke Penny Savings Bank Opened Its Doors On November 2, 1903, In Richmond, Virginia. Opening Day Receipts Totaled $9,430.44. Renamed, CONSOLIDATED BANK & TRUST COMPANY, & Most Recently, PREMIER BANK, For Many Years, It Held The Distinction Of Being The 10th Largest Black American-Owned Bank, As Well As Well As Being The Nation's Oldest Continually-Operated, Non-White-Owned Bank.
Founded And Operated By Teacher And Businesswoman, Maggie Lena Walker, Who Died December 15, 1934, St. Luke Bank Is . Walker Also Owned A Printing Plant, Office Building And Other Businesses. In Addition, She Edited A Newspaper.
Maggie Walker Served As A Role Model For A Number Of Black Americans. It's Said That Local People Enjoyed Seeing Maggie Walker Ride Around Town In Her Chauffeur-Driven Limousine, A Symbol Of Her Success As An Entrepreneur.
Later In Her Life, She Was Disabled By Paralysis And Confined To A Wheelchair, And Also Became An Example For People With
Disabilities.
Her House, At 110A East Leigh Street In Richmond, VA, Was Designated A National Landmark In
"In Order For Black History To Live, We Must Continue To Breathe Life Into It." -- Hubert Gaddy, Jr.
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Our worship service this Sunday, "The Poetics of the World," led by Rev. Aaron Stockwell, continues in his series on meaning making. If you missed it, or want to view again. here is the link to the service on the First Parish in Framingham YouTube Channel.
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The Poetics of the World - February 28 2021 - Sunday Service
#celebratewomenshistorymonth Angela Davis (b. 1944) Political leader, academic scholar, and author. She led the Communist Party USA in the 1960s. She was an advocate for prisoner rights, she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. Her membership in the Communist Party led to former California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1969 to request to bar her from teaching at any university in California. She conducts research of feminism, African-American Studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music, and social consciousness. She was twice a Vice President candidate for the Communist Party USA.
#celebratewomenshistorymonth Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) Voting rights activist, civil rights leader and philanthropist. She helped poor and needy families in her Mississippi community. She was the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. She worked for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. She was elected as a national Democratic Party Delegate in 1972. https://billmoyers.com/2014/08/27/i-question-america-fannie-lou-hamer-and-the-battle-for-full-citizenship/
#CelebratingBlackHistory Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)
Successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection overthrowing the French. Led to the West pulling out the institution of slavery throughout the Americas. This was the only slave uprising that led to the founding of a state, free from slavery and ruled by non-whites and former captives. Challenged long-held beliefs about Black inferiority and enslaved person's capacity to achieve and maintain freedom.
Here's the link for tomorrow's service "The Poetics of the World." https://youtu.be/IbxU6DOyvdg Join us at 9:45 for our usual video and music gathering time, service starts at 10am.
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The Poetics of the World - February 28 2021 - Sunday Service
#CelebratingBlackHistoryMonth Dick Gregory (1932-2017) Civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian and occasional actor. Dick Gregory began studying African history after being told that Africans had no history before European colonization. He took on a number of issues including ending the Vietnam War, feminism, Native American right, and apartheid in South African. He regularly fasted in protest of world events; was arrested dozens of times for his causes. https://www.biography.com/performer/dick-gregory
##celebratingwomenshistorymonth Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) Journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist. A leader of the Civil Rights Movements, active in women's suffrage and rights. In 1887, after she was forcibly removed from a first class seat that she had paid for, she sued the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, for $500 and won, but her case was overturned by the Supreme Court of Tennessee. She bought a portion of a Memphis newspaper, the Free Speech and Headlight, and used it as her platform to champion African-American civil rights. She co-founded the National association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. She documented lynching in the United States in the 1890s; wrote that it was often used in the South as a way to control or punish Black people who competed with Whites.
(from Black History Flashcards, UrbanIntellectuals.com)
Join our YouTube Live service tomorrow, here: https://youtu.be/vwDkEfmxZOg We begin with our video prelude around 9:45 (though earlier and you'll get to catch our soundcheck, how exciting!)
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Sacred Stories and Personal Mythologies
Join us tomorrow for Guest Preacher Anthony Cruz's sermon: Identity in Emergence: https://youtu.be/UMRJHvn7o5Q
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Identity in Emergence - Sunday Service - Anthony Cruz, Guest Preacher
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Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi founded the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 to improve the lives of African-Americans and rebuild the Black Nationalist Movement. They are organizers, freedom fighters and justice seekers.
Weekly update for March 11, 2021, including a special behind-the-scenes tour of the organ and the clockworks. https://youtu.be/2CTik6ILhWI
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Weekly Update for March 11 2021
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March 8 at 12:30 PM ·
Who is a woman in history or your life that you want to give a shout out to today? New Jersey is one of the most ethnically diverse states in the country and today we proudly celebrate International Women's Day, part of Women's History Month. #InternationalWomenDay #WomensHistoryMonth
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Check out this virtual gallery of amazing women who have shattered glass ceilings, led the way for social justice in their communities and so much more (Gallery created by Microsoft, Inc. )
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Weekly Update for March 18th 2021 https://youtu.be/VSCQLnxSQHQ
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Weekly Update for March 18 2021
Our denomination joins leaders across the country in decrying the recent surge of hate crimes against Asians and Asian Americans. #StopAAPIHate
We call on federal, state, and local governments to send the clear message that such actions will not be tolerated. And we are in solidarity with victims, survivors, and families who have suffered loss and pain. We know these acts of violence are rooted in the same white supremacy and hate that takes the lives of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people.
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The UUA Decries Anti-Asian Violence
#CelebratingWomensHistory
Assata Shakur (born in 1947)
Civil Rights activist and a member of the Black Panther Party. She is regarded as a hero for her protests against racism and her role in the 1970s Black Liberation Army. She was a community advocate who helped the poor by organizing a free breakfast program and a health clinic. She became the first woman to be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list after escaping to Cuba from prison, where she was serving a life sentence for the murder of a police officer. Many people believe Shakur to be a political prisoner who is innocent of the criminal accusations against her. (Black History Flashcard, Urban Intellectuals.com)
#celebratewomenshistory
Amy Ashwood Garvey (1897-1969)
She was an activist for African Independence and the rights of African women. She married Marcus Garvey, leader of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the largest African-American and Pan-African movement of all time. She risked her life for her husband in 1922 by stepping in front of his would-be assassin's bullets. She served as the director of the Black Star Line shipping company. She established the UNIA ladies auxiliary as well as its newspaper, "The Negro World." She also owned a jazz club and produced shows where other activists would gather to discuss Pan-Africanism. She co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Coloured People in 1958.
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Amina, Queen of Zaria (c.1533-c. 1610)
Amina was a warrior queen of what is now known as Nigeria. She is best known for her impressive military skills and her ability to lead the cavalry. She conquered much of North Africa for the Hausa people during her 34-year reign. She was accredited as a brilliant architect who constructed strong earthen walls around the cities she built and seized. She rejected traditional gender roles by refusing to marry or having children. She was the inspiration for the television series Xena Warrior Princess.
https://www.nigeriagalleria.com/Nigeria/Personality-Profiles/Prominent-Nigerians/Amina-Zazzau.html
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Amanirenas (40 BC-10 AD) was a warrior queen of the powerful Nubian region of Kush, present day Sudan. She fought alongside her husband and son in a war against Kush's larger and more powerful rival, the Roman Empire. She took part in a pre-emptive strike against Rome and led a counterattack after Rome destroyed the capital of Kush and took thousands into slavery. She lost an eye during battle . She led an army that used gruesome tactics including attacking with war elephants and feeding captives to her pet lion. She reached a peace treaty with Rome because of her successful military attacks, which led to 400 years of peace and prosperity for Kush.
Stop AAPI Hate
March 16 at 8:00 AM ·
This morning we released our latest national report, tracking anti-AAPI hate incidents during the pandemic. From March 2020 to February 2021, Stop AAPI Hate received a total of 3,795 hate incident reports from individuals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Our data offer proof of the size and scope of the tragedy that is anti-Asian racism and xenophobia in the United States.
A few facts and figures:
👉🏻 Women reported hate incidents 2.3 times more often than men.
👉 Youths (0-17) reported 12.6 percent of total incidents and seniors (60+) reported 6.2 percent.
👉🏽 Although 42 percent of incidents were reported by Chinese individuals, Koreans (14.8 percent), Vietnamese (8.5 percent) and Filipinos (7.9 percent) are also targeted.
You can read the full report on the Stop AAPI Hate website: https://bit.ly/3s4Q4r3
Our siblings at Open Spirit: A Place of Hope, Health & Harmony have installed this COVID-19 memorial on Framingham Centre Common. 232 flags for each Framingham resident who has died from COVID-19. Framingham Interfaith Community Association will host a Zoom memorial on Tuesday at 7pm in memory of all those who have died from COVID.
Open Spirit: A Place of Hope, Health & Harmony
March 20 at 1:07 PM ·
Come walk the Journey of Remembrance--232 flags, one for each Framingham resident who has died from COVID. On the Framingham Centre Common
Here's the link for tomorrow's service: "Our Separate Fires Kindle One Flame." https://youtu.be/I2UOdg-_JtA
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Our Separate Fires Kindle One Flame - Sunday Service - March 21 2021
Weekly Update for March 18th 2021 https://youtu.be/VSCQLnxSQHQ
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Weekly Update for March 18 2021
Our denomination joins leaders across the country in decrying the recent surge of hate crimes against Asians and Asian Americans. #StopAAPIHate
We call on federal, state, and local governments to send the clear message that such actions will not be tolerated. And we are in solidarity with victims, survivors, and families who have suffered loss and pain. We know these acts of violence are rooted in the same white supremacy and hate that takes the lives of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people.
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The UUA Decries Anti-Asian Violence
#CelebratingWomensHistory
Assata Shakur (born in 1947)
Civil Rights activist and a member of the Black Panther Party. She is regarded as a hero for her protests against racism and her role in the 1970s Black Liberation Army. She was a community advocate who helped the poor by organizing a free breakfast program and a health clinic. She became the first woman to be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list after escaping to Cuba from prison, where she was serving a life sentence for the murder of a police officer. Many people believe Shakur to be a political prisoner who is innocent of the criminal accusations against her. (Black History Flashcard, Urban Intellectuals.com)
