Online Only As the United States marks over 150,000 deaths from COVID-19, the president retweets a press conference by Dr. Stella Immanuel, who is promoting hydroxychloroquine as a cure for the virus – and who has also claimed that alien DNA is used in medical treatments and scientists are working on a vaccine to prevent … Continue reading What Now? What Next?
Online Only As we reflect on another year of our country’s existence, what can we truly do to honor and celebrate the best of America’s principles? I suggest that this cannot simply be another year, where we mark the passing of time, with fireworks and frivolity; instead, I will offer some of my perspective on … Continue reading Of Civics and Civility
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
This weekend, ministers, rabbis, priests, and pastors around the state of New Hampshire are preaching about the impact of the Death Penalty on our lives. UUs have officially opposed capital punishment since 1961 and have repeatedly reaffirmed the need to find alternatives. It it time to close the book on this chapter of our state’s … Continue reading Death Penalty Obituary
Sometimes we find our everyday lives separated from our innermost being. The passion and zeal or earlier times can grow stale and alien. The prospect of being “divided no more” is something we all can work toward, generating both energy and tranquility.
The Sufi mystic Rumi wrote: “Out of kindness comes this world and certain arrangements of stars. With just the right conjunction, you appear. One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.” This service will explore what we can learn about promoting kindness in our own “ocean” from Fred Rogers, a Presbyterian minister and the … Continue reading Out of Kindness
