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Online Only As our Song of Welcome (“Gather the Spirit”) will have us sing: “Gather in hope, compassion and strength. Gather to celebrate once again.” Yes, we will celebrate the conclusion of a most irregular “regular” church year. We will sing the praises of this year’s volunteer award recipients. We will honor a range of … Continue reading Flower Communion Sunday: Gather to Celebrate Once Again
Online Only “Come, Sing a Song with Me” will be our “Song of Welcome” as we celebrate the power of music in softening and strengthening our hearts to the many new songs we are called to sing right now. The choir will unveil renditions of their long-standing favorites “Order My Steps” and “Hallelujah” and present … Continue reading Music Sunday: When I Have A Brand New Song to Sing
Online Only There are certain books, poems, pieces of music or art that have a timeless quality, a quality we like to lean on again and again for nourishment, courage, and care of the heart. Pema Chödrön’s book “When Things Fall Apart” has played that role for many. The service will highlight a number of … Continue reading When Things Fall Apart: The Power of Sacred Texts
Online Only When a crisis hits, we focus on the essentials, for ourselves and for our communities. Yet what are those essentials? Physical survival matters. And, as Seven of Nine famously proclaims in the 1999 episode of Star Trek: Voyager: “Survival is insufficient.” How do we spend our time, pandemic and all, to keep our … Continue reading Survival is Insufficient
Online Only Is your soul in need of saving? Do you feel like flashing signals of distress from the hull of your home that threatens to drown (you)? Are you ready for some Spontaneous Outbursts of Smiles or Silliness or Surrender? Good, because that’s what I need right now, so that’s what you’ll get this … Continue reading SOS – Spontaneous Outbursts of Smiles/Silliness/Surrender
Click for Online Service The Rwandan genocide of 1994 sent shock waves around the world and left the Rwandan population emotionally traumatized and physically devasted. A quarter century later, Rwanda serves as a model of how national trauma can be transformed, step by step, into a journey of healing and hope. Whitney Howarth will share … Continue reading Toward Resilience – Lessons from Rwanda
Online Only Click Here for Live Stream Fifty years after first celebrating Earth Day how do we stay grounded and motivated to do what it takes to maintain our planet as the life-giving home we depend on for our future and our children’s future. Michael will be joined by college friends Rick Duke (Senior Fellow … Continue reading Staying Grounded on Earth Day – Every Day
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
