Archives: Services

Broken and Free

We’re all imperfect – broken, fixed, healed, scarred, stronger, different, enduring – this is human nature and inevitable as we live and move through life. Our service this Sunday will revisit this topic from ten years ago, and re-examine what it means to navigate experiences … read more.

Diwali

Join us to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights! This multigenerational service of storytelling and song will be led by DRE Jenny, Music Director Mahima, Assistant Music Director Asa, and Rev. Roger, with special guest Swami Yogatmananda from the Vedanta Society of Providence.

All Souls

They say the veil between the living and the dead is most permeable this time of year. Join Revs. Liz and Roger for this moving annual tribute remembering and honoring All Souls. All Are Welcome.

True Legends & Real Myths

The stories we tell tell something about us. Our histories shape our future and our legends shape our present. So join us for a service of myths and legends, told with rhythm and song, as we reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re going.

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Living In Love

The annual highlight of our worship year, Music Minister David Smith is with us from Tulsa, Oklahoma along with Pastor Howard Jenkins (AME) and Rabbi Sarah Mack from Temple Beth-El in providence and of course Reverend Liz.  Join us for an uplifting morning of music.

Dignity, Belonging and Hope!

Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministries, and the Council of Churches have joined with Common Cause, the Womxn Project and others on a Campaign for Voting Rights in Rhode Island. Volunteers will be available during coffee hour with postcards to help anyone who would like to have … read more.

Drag

The entertainer RuPaul has elevated drag to cultural celebration but drag is not only about dresses and wigs. Rev. Roger will explore how this art form can inform our own UU identities. Welcome All. Join Us.

The How-ing of Love

Our service this week will look at a few sometimes-overlooked components of how we love, in the light of ancient definitions of goodness and happiness.  We’ll draw on points made by Ben Franklin, Charles Dickens (a Unitarian!) and many others.  Join us for a rich … read more.

Wrestling and Reconciliation

We are now in the Jewish calendar’s Days of Awe, the nine days between the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. A time of recovery, possibility, and healing. In this week’s sermon Rev. Liz will explore what the Days of Awe can … read more.

In-Gathering and Water Communion

Join your church friends and family for the first service of the new year! Greet one another and the staff, and celebrate the life of First U. As we come together after our various summer adventures, bring some water that symbolizes something important that happened … read more.