The Fifth Sunday Fellowship: A Shared Pulpit Experience, First Parish Northfield, Unitarian

First Parish is joining in a project by the Fifth Sunday Fellowship: A Shared Pulpit Experience, a collaborative worship program created by several congregations together. Our Sunday service this week is titled “UU in Liminal Space.”

This joint online service begins at 10:30 am, Sunday, January 29. Note the later-than-usual starting time for this fifth Sunday event. First Parish participants may join from home or come to church to participate together. We will have a data projector and screen set up for the shared experience. To participate via Zoom, please send an e-mail message to fpnorthfieldma@gmail.com for a link. All will be welcome.

Lisa Napier and Chris McCann of the East Suburban Unitarian Universalist Church in Murrysville, PA, will lead the service. Here is how they describe the program:

“Love is the teaching of this Church. What does this line, in so many of our covenants, mean, in measurable, actionable human behavior? … What will be required of us if we feel this with all our Heart, and grow? And reflect on our failures? And make amends? And build our legacy?”

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About First Parish

The present First Parish Unitarian Church, built in 1879, is adjacent to the site of the first church in Northfield. The original was “in the street,” now the middle of Main Street, which was common land.

Here, cows, swine, and sheep ran free while the houses and people were fenced to protect the home gardens from the wandering beasts.

The church holds a fine E&GG Hook organ #48, built in 1842. The Town Clock in the steeple is an 1871 Howard Company clock.

The mission of First Parish of Northfield Unitarian is to embrace the spiritual through imaginative contemplation and reflection; to nurture fellowship, service and charity; and to share, celebrate and affirm diversity and explore common needs among members, friends and the larger community.

Growing out of the Judeo-Christian tradition, we also seek inspiration from great philosophers and world religions. We cherish diversity among our members, and require adherence to no creed.

As members of the Unitarian Universalist Association, we accept the following principles agreed to by its member churches:

– Every person is a person of inherent worth and dignity.

– Human relations should be based on justice, equity, and compassion.

– Spiritual growth should be encouraged in our congregation but we should accept one another without regard to judgments about our spiritual growth.

– The search for truth and meaning should be free and responsible.

– Within our congregation and society at large the rights of conscience should be respected and a democratic process followed.

– We should work for the goal of a world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.

– We should respect the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

By First Parish Northfield, Unitarian