Circle Sundays Service Series ~
Summer 2021
Please join UCMH along with partnering UU churches in the region for a series of inspiring services throughout the Summer.
All services are held online and begin at 10am except where otherwise noted. Please see the line-up below.
Everyone is welcome to participate!
Sunday, July 4, 10:30am
Independence Day 2021
Voter Suppression
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Attorney, Bill Newman
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst
Please join us for a special online Independence Day Service with Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Lawyer, Bill Newman, and the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst. Attorney Newman has served as the Director of the Western Regional Law Office of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts since 1987 and will speak on voter suppression.
Passcode: 926225
Participants can also call in at 646 558 8656.
Sunday, July 11
Everyone’s Weird: Trans Love
Dennis Duquette
First Parish Northboro Unitarian Universalist
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Sunday, July 18
Names Have Power
Thandrie Davis
Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson
Names are powerful things. The names we use for ourselves, and for others, shape perception… and can help to shape reality. This applies to everything from ideas, and concepts, and brand names … and especially to people. Throughout history, even going back to biblical times, names and titles have been given, and changed, and claimed. In this sermon, we’ll reflect on the name(s) we choose for ourselves, and the names we choose for others, and the power those names have.
About Thandrie Davis ~
Thandrie Davis (they/them), known formerly as Andrea Shubert and as Nathan Davis, first attended UCMH in 2011. Having spent two decades as a designer, writer, and producer within the games industry, Thandrie is figuring out their next steps. Originally from Massachusetts, and currently calling Sydney, Australia home, they consider themselves blessed to connect with their church from afar.
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Sunday, July 25
Amy Martellock
UU Congregational Society of Westborough
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Sunday, August 1
Healing from Broken to Whole Together
Multi-Congregation Worship Service
Rev. Jill Cowie
Harvard Unitarian Universalist Church
Seminarian Paloma Callo said to her preaching class recently that “we are a whole, healing, and broken people, a whole, healing, and broken faith, a whole healing and broken world.” She added, “that it is our witness to the cracks and shattered pieces that enables healing.”
How do we find the courage to enter the pain? The compassion to help healing? How do we stay open to the grace of our wholeness in the midst of it all?
This year the participating churches include Harvard, Lancaster, Littleton, Stow/Acton, Fitchburg, Marlborough/Hudson, Bolton, and Leominster.
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Sunday, August 8
The Easiest is the Hardest
Rev. Janet Newton
UU Congregational Society of Westborough
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Sunday, August 15
Walt Whitman’s Spiritual Lessons for Democracy
Kris Comment
Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson
“The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are”: What spiritual lessons for democracy can we find in the work of Walt Whitman? Join us for an exploration of the poetry and writings of the “father of free verse.”
About Kris Comment ~
Kris Comment (she/her/hers) has been a member of UCMH since 2016. She earned a Ph.D. in American Literature and LGBTQ studies at the University of Maryland in 2002 and is currently a full-time English teacher at Belmont High School and part-time Visiting Associate Professor of English at Framingham State University. She fell in love with the Transcendentalists as an undergraduate and finds her greatest spiritual inspiration in literature.
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Sunday, August 22
Rev. Laurel Gray
UU Congregational Society of Westborough
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Sunday, August 29
Rev. Lynda Sutherland
First Parish Northboro Unitarian Universalist
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Sunday, September 5
Labor Day Weekend
Rev. Lynda Sutherland
First Parish Northboro Unitarian Universalist
Traditionally UCMH is closed on Labor Day and reopens for our Water Communion Ceremony. However, this year we have the opportunity to join our neighbors for a final Summer Circle Service. All are welcome!