Join us for a walk at Mt Auburn Cemetery, for reflection and prayer about what the practice of confession might teach us in this season. Questions we will explore together: What would it mean for our practice of confession, if…
As soon as we heard that singing together is considered a high risk activity, we started brainstorming. As someone who views singing as a way we experience God in the world I was eager to find a way to create…
As protests continue across the country many of us are looking for ways to participate and support this effort. If you can’t protest for any reason- if you have a chronic medical condition or need to be focusing on homeschooling…
This past Sunday we gathered as a church community on zoom for a virtual coffee hour to process all that is happening in our country. Jean Dany, our poet in residence, offered a recitation on his haiku poem “No Room…
This past Sunday our Christian Formation team members Ariel Ackermann and Hilary Hopkins co-lead a special 10 o’clock hour to make their very own flames to celebrate the birth of the church and bring to life the story we heard…
I started this embroidery project weeks ago in an attempt to ground myself in something speaking words of hope for the world when I couldn’t quite muster them myself. I grew tired of it and it’s been sitting on my…
is a question I have asked myself often as we continue to absorb the effects of living through a worldwide pandemic. Lately, there seems to be so much of it, so much to lament and to process. It feels like…
Wishing everyone a Happy Mother’s Day! Today we celebrate all who have nurtured and loved others into being in their midst and we also pray for all who are having a difficult day this year. We offer a blessing now……
A word about writing as a spiritual practice by Krysia Burnham, a member of First Church in Cambridge and a hospice chaplain. Ever since the cave paintings at Lascaux, humans have told their story, in pictures and—as soon as alphabets…
A reflection by Hilary Hopkins, a member of FCC and Chair of Christian Formation “Wanna walk?” I inquire of my husband. “Sure,” he says. And out we go. Has there always been that much bird song, during the day, or…