Rev. Leuchtenberger is our senior minister. Read more.
Online only: Click Here for Live Stream Living through a pandemic is new for most of us yet many of the elders in our church community have lived through other times of tragedy and uncertainty in their long lives. Come listen to stories of resilience and compassion that can help inspire us today to grieve … Continue reading Stories of Resilience, Wisdom of our Elders
Click Here for Live Stream Our covenant calls us to seek the truth in love. Few in the Concord community embody this aspiration for social justice as consistently and eloquently (and forcefully) as Arnie Alpert. For almost 40 years Arnie led the American Friends Service Committee of NH creating our state’s most potent and visible … Continue reading To Seek and Proclaim the Truth in Love
ONLINE ONLY Today’s service will be doubly unusual. It will be online only AND offer a more contemplative format than most Sundays. You will still get to hear our virtual choir, be part of Joys & Sorrows, and sing along to Calvin playing some of our favorite hymns. So please join us and enter “the … Continue reading Resting in the Heart of Silence
LIVE STREAM ONLY Last week close to 200 of us connected in worship during our first ever online only worship service. Come join us again as we light our chalice, share stories, open our hearts to music and joys & sorrows, and listen to a sermon that will attempt to speak to the agony of … Continue reading Feeling our Hearts, Strengthening our Spirits
LIVE STREAM ONLY While we practice physical distancing to slow the spread of COVID19, please connect with us online for our live-streaming at 10 a.m. on Sundays: www.concorduu.org/live/. You Tube Recording of this Service
We are our stories – as individuals and as a community. We create a sense of purpose through the narratives we share and our shared understanding of purpose helps highlight the stories that matter most in our lives. Congregant and Life Coach Nick Devlin will guide us in this exploration of our own wisdom stories.
Talking about taboos, breaking taboos, ignoring taboos seems like fun for some and is abhorrent to others. Context clearly matters. How do we create safe(-enough) spaces to talk about taboos? How do we create safe(-enough) spaces to talk about what taboos to talk about – or not talk about? What process has worked for you? … Continue reading Let’s Talk About That (or Not) – To Be Revealed
Human touch and being at ease with our bodies are fundamental to what most of us desire to feel connected and whole. Yet the horrific abuses associated with unwanted touch have torn the healing, welcoming, playful, love-expressing qualities and powers of touch from our cultural toolkit of connection. And the unrealistic, commercialized, stereotyped images of … Continue reading Touchy Subjects
In “The Soul of Sex” Thomas Moore refers to ‘lovemaking as the ritual that invites the goddess of sex to be present.’ Yet he acknowledges that ‘in our society sex is wounded by a deep-seated masochism, which finds distorted satisfaction in the suppression of desire.’ Organized religion hasn’t always been helpful as we embrace sex … Continue reading Sex
Cultural no-nos help to avoid chaos and harm. Taboos create group identity and cohesion. Social prohibitions reinforce power relationships. And the things we are not talking about often relate to our most intimate and sacred experiences. The power and potential of psychedelics to have “mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance” … Continue reading Let’s Not Talk About That
