Our favorite songs, whoever the artist or whatever the style, were created in a strange alchemy of study and inspiration, of strict practice and of letting go. Spiritual Practice is a similar combination of dedication, muscle memory, and perhaps a little divine inspiration. Join us for a musical exploration of learning to risk, building the muscle memory of courage, and the spiritual practice of relationship. Today's service, entitled "It Takes Practice" is led by Rev. Allison Palm and special guest, Matt Meyer.
Today's online service is the second in a three part series on reconnecting in a time of disconnection. We’ll explore ways to reconnect with each other and enjoy music by Pat Humphries and Sandy O of Emma’s Revolution, connecting with us from California, as well as music from our clarinet quintet.
Our service today was led by Rev. Allison Palm, Director of Faith Formation Sadie Kahn-Greene and Worship Associate Lindsey Silvester. This service is the first in a three part series on reconnecting in a time of disconnection. We’ll explore ways to reconnect with yourself and build resilience.
We are going through challenging times, but music can still heal our spirit and bring us together. Some of our congregants share their favorite UU hymns. Service leaders: Sadie Kahn-Greene and Ben Atherton-Zeman.
This is another of our online services that was attended using the Zoom video conferencing application. Led by Rev. Allison Palm, this service is entitled "Persistence in a Time of Uncertainty". Lindsey Sylvester served as our Worship Associate and Peggy Cardone led our Wonder Box story.
Today's online service is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Jed Holland, Sadie Kahn-Greene, Ben Atherton-Zeman, Robin Trudel, and Burns Fisher. Today is our Easter service. The title is "Going Through It Together". It’s a hard time in our world. Join us online for a service about getting through it together. We have some wonderful music by Jed, Steve Hedges, and a brass band (trumpets Bruce Dye, Andy Capen, Bruce Cleaveland; trombones Jon Lasselle, Lindsey Sylvester, Anthony Iovino, and Kathy Grossman). Rev Allison also does an online homily! Take a listen!
Today's Zoom online service is entitled "Going Through It Together" and is led by Rev Allison Palm and supported by Sadie Kahn-Greene, Ben Atherton-Zeman and Andy Capen. Special music performed by Brenna Woods, Jed Holland and Kathy Grossman. Listen in to receive all the connection and blessings shared throughout this service.
Third online service due to COVID-19 shelter-in-place. This Sunday, we are switching things up! After the first 25 minutes, we will go into break out rooms to explore various spiritual practices: chair yoga, art, prayer, sacred reading, making mandalas, singing and meditation.
Today's service is our second one held over Zoom due to social distancing efforts. It is entitled "Creating Sanctuary at Home" and is led by Rev Allison. Supporting her are Jed Holland, Chris Holland, Ben Atherton-Zeman, Eileen Herring, Brenna Woods, and musician Kathy Grossman. Listen and join in to make your own sanctuary corner at home, hear some thoughtful readings, and hear some beautiful music!
This was UUCN's first remote service in response to coronavirus health concerns where congregants participated using the Zoom video teleconferencing application. The service, led by Ministerial Intern, Ben Atherton-Zeman, and Director of Faith Formation, Sadie Kahn-Greene, is entitled "Befriending the Impostor". We are taught to think wisdom comes from books and from sages, not from inside ourselves. In this service, Ben shares his journey dealing with “Impostor Syndrome” and encourages us all to validate our inner wisdom.
Today's service is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Jed Holland, Bob Coulter, Lindsey Hedrick, and Robin Trudel. It is entitled "Too Soon To Tell".
In our first service on wisdom, we explored the difference between knowledge and wisdom. This service was led by Rev. Allison Palm, Ministerial Intern Ben Atherton-Zeman, Director of Faith Formation Sadie Kahn-Greene, Worship Associate Andy Capen and Music Director Jed Holland.
Join us for an all ages service on cultivating resilience in our everyday lives. Today's service "Everyday Resilience" is led by Rev Allison Palm and Sadie Kahn-Greene. The Stewardship Team presented a video made by some of the children and youth donors in our church, and it was so wonderful! I wish you could see it!
This service, led by our Ministerial Intern, Ben Atherton-Zeman, examines collective resilience that spans generations, focusing particularly on the intergenerational resilience of African Americans. Eileen Herring and Vengerflutta Smith serve as Worship Associates and Lindsey Sylvester narrates the Wonderbox portion of the service.
Today's service "Our Common Endeavor", is led by Rev Patrick McLaughlin. Rev Patrick is the minister of the UU Church of Manchester and is swapping pulpits with Rev Allison today. One of the things our form of congregational polity has long called for is cooperation with, and gentle correction from, sibling congregations. We’re starting to get better at this—what are we doing now?
Our first service on resilience was lead by Rev. Allison Palm, Worship Associate Bob Coulter, Ministerial Intern Ben Atherton-Zeman, Director of Faith Formation Sadie Kahn-Greene and Music Director Jed Holland. This was also the kickoff to our Stewardship Campaign: When did resilience become a solo project?
Today's service is "The Empty Pot", led by Rev. Allison Palm and Sadie Kahn-Greene. Join us for an all ages services about honesty and being true to yourself, using the story of “The Empty Pot,” by Demi. Listen to the fun story and the wonderful music!
This service, led by Rev. Allison Palm and assisted by Worship Associates Lindsey Sylvester and Robin Trudell, honors the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by exploring our responsibility to one another.
This worship service will explore our commitment as a congregation to raising lifelong Unitarian Universalists, and how we do that with integrity and love. Today's service is "Being True to UU", and is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, Lindsey Sylvester, and Brenna Woods. Today we have some lovely music too!
The title of this service and sermon are "Faith and Works" led by Worship Associate Robin Trudel, Ministerial Intern Ben Atherton-Zeman and Rev. Emily Burr. In this service we explored our covenant to affirm and promote our seven Principles and how if we truly want to promote our values, we must reach outward beyond ourselves with action.
In a service inspired by the 1977 film “Powers of Ten,” Ministerial intern Ben Atherton-Zeman will bring us from the expanses of the known universe down to the smallest particle.
It's Christmas Eve! Our 5pm Family Service is an interactive retelling of the nativity story. We feature our Christmas Choir and conclude with our traditional passing of the light, singing Dona Nobis Pacem and Silent Night.
It's Christmas Eve! Our 7 pm service is a modern take on lessons and carols. We feature our Christmas Choir and will conclude with our traditional passing of the light, singing Dona Nobis Pacem and Silent Night. This service is led by Rev. Allison Palm and Ben Atherton-Zeman.
Our Children and Youth will lead us in a service exploring gratitude and the winter solstice. Sadie Kahn-Greene leads some beautiful songs in the stories, and we have a lovely choir anthem as well as a solstice song quartet - take a listen!
In this service we explore the awe that arises in our connections with one another. What happens when you look into another’s eyes and realize that you are not alone? The service is led by Rev. Allison Palm, with support from Ben Atherton-Zeman, Sadie Kahn Greene, and Lindsey Sylvester.
Today's service "The Wonder of Discovery" is led by Rev. Allison Palm, with support from music director Jed Holland, ministerial intern Ben Atherton-Zeman, and worship associate Andy Capen. Sometimes we feel awe in looking at things we can’t understand, the parts of the world that are beyond our understanding. Other times, the awe is in understanding the complexity of our world. How do we appreciate our wonder at both understanding and mystery?
In this first service on awe we explored the difference between attention and awe. The service was led by Rev. Allison Palm, Worship Associate Robin Trudel, Director of Faith Formation Sadie Kahn-Greene and Music Director Jed Holland.
Today's Service "Focus on Beauty, Focus on Love" is led by Rev Allison Palm and Sadie Kahn-Greene. Join us for an all ages service exploring attention, gratitude, beauty and love. After the service, we packed bags for the Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter’s Holiday Gift Program.
This service, led by Rev. Allison Palm, is entitled "Pay Attention! To What?". It explores the questions "What is it that gets paid attention to in our world?" and "How do we decide what we pay attention to each day?"
Today's service is led by Ben Atherton-Zeman, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, worship associate Robin Trudel, and board member Burns Fisher. "Magic or Misdirection: Paying attention to what's important in life." Are you so busy making life that you don’t have time to have a life? What is diverting your attention from the important things, from those around you, from the still small voice inside your heart?
Our All Soul's service was led by Rev. Allison Palm, Ben Atherton-Zeman and Bob Coulter. We came to together to remember and honor our loved ones who have died and explored what it means to pay attention to loss, and the ways our loved ones live on in our memories.
Today's service is "I Am a UU, R U?" and is led by Rev Allison Palm, Sadie Kahn-Greene, and Ben Atherton Zeman, with support from music director Jed Holland, and Lyndsey Sylvester. This service is an adaptation of a service written by Becky Brooks and Erika Hewitt. We have plenty of music today too, including two soloists and our all ages choir!
This service, led by Reverend Allison Palm, is entitled "Why Belong?" and explores the following two questions: "What is the purpose of being a member of a community?" and "Why does belonging matter?"
Ben Atherton-Zeman leads today's service: "Melting the Iceberg: Domestic Violence Awareness". Assisting are Music Director Jed Holland, Worship Associate Andy Capen, and Board member John Burkitt. Our guest speaker is Amy Jo Muscott, from Bridges, a women's shelter in Nashua. The choir and Brenna Woods sing some very moving anthems today. And make sure to listen to the Wonderbox story!
Today's service entitled To Be Seen As We Are is led by Rev. Allison Palm, Director of Faith Formation Sadie Kahn-Greene, Ministerial Intern Ben Atherton-Zeman with support from Worship Associate Lindsey Sylvester, Board of Trustees Member Rick Spitz and Music Director Jed Holland. This service explores gender identity and talk pronouns. We heard the voices of Trans UUs and talked about how we can be welcoming to people of all genders in our congregation.
Today's service is "Repairing Our Foundations" and is led by Rev Allison Palm. Along with 7 other faith communities in our area, this Sunday we’ll be talking about the issue of affordable housing. Our faith calls us to care for our neighbors, because we are connected. What can we do about the issue of housing in our community?
Today's service is Defying Expectations, led by Rev Allison Palm. There are so many stories about times that the underdog has, unexpectedly, come out on top. What do these stories have to teach us about defeating the giants of our time?
On September 20, three days before the UN Climate Summit in NYC, young people and adults will strike all across the US and world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. This service, led by Reverend Allison Palm, explores climate justice and Unitarian Universalism, offering hope and a call to action.
Today is our Water Communion Ingathering Service - our first Sunday back after summer. Everyone is invited to bring a bit of water to symbolize their summer activities. Rev Allison is leading the service, called "The Tide Is Rising and So Are We". The choir sings a beautiful anthem "The River", we are excited to welcome our ministerial intern Ben Atherton-Zeman, and the congregation is so happy to be back together!
Today's service is led by Jess Woods and Lindsey Sylvester entitled "Embodiment of Healing" where our bodies and minds are connected in the way that we heal, worship, and connect. We explored how we might live in our bodies to enhance our well being and spirituality.
Today's service is led by Reverend Allison Palm and our Director of Faith Formation Sadie Kahn-Greene, with support from Worship Associate Jess Woods, our Ministerial Intern Ben Atherton-Zeman, and Charlotte Cardone.
Today's service is entitled "The Power of We" and is led by our church's delegates to the 2019 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly in Spokane, Washington. The delegates, Reverend Allison Palm, Sadie Kahn-Greene, Carol Houde, Lindsey Hedrick, Lindsey Sylvester, and Tristan Husby share their reflections on their experiences from General Assembly. A seventh delegate, Brenna Woods, was unable to attend this service.
Today's service is led by Carol Houde, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, worship associate Chuck Rehberg, and Brenna Woods.
Today's service is led by Grace Morton, Worship Associate Peggy Cardone and and Music Director Jed Holland. Grace's sermon is "The Call to Adventure" which is made even more personal given Grace is heading off on her own adventure at college this Fall. Special music sung by Ben Morton during the Outreach portion of the service.
Today's service is led by Grace Morton, Worship Associate Peggy Cardone and and Music Director Jed Holland. Grace's sermon is "The Call to Adventure" which is made even more personal given Grace is heading off on their own adventure at college this Fall. Make sure to listen to the beautiful and touching special music sung by Grace's brother Ben Morton during the Outreach portion of the service.
Today's service is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Worship Associate Peggy Cardone. Today's pianist and organist is Johnna Ross.
Today's service, entitled "Learning to Practice Imperfection" is led by Lindsey Sylvester, with support from Worship Associate Ellen McCahon and Music Director Jed Holland. Lindsey's sermon explores the traditional Japanese worldview of Wabi-Sabi and addresses the art of learning to practice and celebrate imperfection.
Today's service is led by Brenna Woods, with support from Worship Associate Lindsey Sylvester and Music Director Jed Holland. Brenna's sermon is "What Could You Talk About?" and explores the value of forming intergenerational relationships. There's a wonderful duet by Brenna and Kathy Grossman, and some lively music - check it out!
Today we viewed a broadcast of the Sunday service from our Unitarian Universalist General Assembly. The Rev. Marta I. Valentin delivered the sermon. Go to this link to see the service. UU GA 2019 service
Today's service is led by our Minister Emeritus, Rev Steve Edington. It's nice to have him back to preach! His sermon is based on his new book: God is not God's Name. Steve is supported today by worship associate Chuck Rehberg and Music Director Jed Holland.
Today's summer service is led by Peggy Cardone. Ben Telerski is today's musician, and Gwen Davis is our Worship Associate today.
Today's service is led by Maggie Woolsey, with support from Worship Associate Peter Bozzi and Music Director Jed Holland. Maggie's sermon entitled "Optimistic Nihilism" speaks to how the works and acts of actor and comedian, Bill Murray, have influenced her journey and affected how she thinks about her life.
Today's service is our annual flower service. "All This Beauty" is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from music director Jed Holland, Faith Formation Director Sadie Kahn-Greene, and Peggy Cardone. Everyone brought a flower for our annual Flower Communion. In this all ages service, we honor the unique beauty we each bring, and the collective beauty of our gathered community.
Rev. Allison Palm, Sadie Kahn-Greene and Jed Holland lead this all ages service celebrating the beauty of each of our journeys and honoring our graduating seniors. Special Music by Kathleen Griffis.
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