Join us as we kick off a new program year at First Church Boston. Starting September 8, we return to the sanctuary for Sunday services at 11am each week. Each week is an opportunity to experience a time of spiritual community and reconnection to deeper values as well as excellent music by the professional First Church Boston Choral Ensemble. Services are also available live and recorded on YouTube.

Each Sunday service is collaboratively crafted by First Church ministers, staff, and lay leaders to connect with the spiritual and religious needs of living in our diverse, multi-religious world. Drawing from both religious and secular resources, the texts and music of each service explore that day’s theme from multiple angles. Following the Sunday service, attendees are invited to linger over coffee and light snacks for conversation. On some Sundays, additional programming is also available from our Social Justice Community, Learning Community, or others.

Over the course of the month, the Sunday services will also examine the monthly theme of “Rootedness.” As a community, First Church in Boston began by forming a covenant—a set of promises with each other and the God of their understanding. Beginning with the words, “In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,” this 1630 covenant roots the Puritans within a particular religious tradition and understanding which may not be one that speaks to us today. What could it mean for us to be “rooted”?  What traditions, communities, and ideas frame our sense of how we belong in the larger world?  To learn more about this theme and the larger project of revisiting the 1630 covenant, please read Rev. May’s September Community Voice column.

To stay up-to-date on each Sunday service theme as well as weekly events at First Church Boston, please sign up for our weekly e-news. Or, to learn more about First Church or Unitarian Universalism, please reach out to our minister, Rev. Dr. Stephanie May, or intern minister, Lindsay Donnelly-Bullington.