THEODORE PARKER CHURCH

Get a jump start on influencing legislation with the new Congress! The Social Action Committee is hosting a short session on how to make your values heard. Learn how we can create a TPC team of 5-minute legislative activists. We know it makes a difference.  We will meet in the parish hall parlor.

Your Social Action Committee will sponsor another in its series of Community Potlucks on Friday, January 11, at 6:30 p.m. in the parish hall parlor. The purpose of these potlucks is to help build community in our congregation around the "reaching out" aspect of our collective mission, and to connect it to our efforts to … Continue reading Social Action Committee Potluck: Racial Equity in the Boston Public Schools

All members and friends are invited to learn about implicit racial biases on January 13 from noon to 1 p.m. in the parish hall parlor. This session also serves as an introduction for those planning to attend the workshop on February 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Stan Gross and Kendra Pelojoaquin will lead … Continue reading Implicit Racial Bias: Introduction

This 50-minute documentary follows the lives of four young Palestinians who have been detained and imprisoned under the Israeli military system. Join us for the screening, plus food and conversation. Sponsored by Theodore Parker Church and UUs for Justice in the Middle East. More information:  Imprisoning A Generation Flyer

Stan Gross and Kendra Pelojoaquin will lead a day of workshops on implicit racial bias, which will introduce ways of gaining awareness of these often hidden biases.

Participate in the Kids for Peace Great Kindness Challenge with your family. Then, join us for the party — fun and friendship, games and music, pizza and snacks. Your checklist of Acts of Kindness is your ticket to enter. Complete one or many! www.greatkindnesschallenge.org   #GKCfamily Hosted by the Religious Exploration Committee. All are welcome. Believe in the … Continue reading The Great Kindness Challenge Family Edition Wrap-up Celebration

Have you had experiences that brought you into a space you might call Holy? "Holy" is capitalized to convey how deeply tender and vulnerable these experiences may feel, and also how they may shine, feel wondrous, and widen our sense of reality beyond anything explicable. Some of us may label them with words like Spirit, … Continue reading Adult Religious Exploration: Begin Again

The Theodore Parker Church's Racial Justice Task Force is a co-sponsor of this film being shown at the Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist Church (6 Eliot Street). Stories of gang-involved youth, entangled in the intractable violence haunting Boston's neighborhoods, and the StreetSafe Boston social and street workers tasked with helping to transform their lives.  Click here … Continue reading Film: This Ain’t Normal

All are invited to our annual Fellowship Fest. Guest musician Adam Feldman will kick off the evening as we gather to celebrate and begin our Gather & Grow Pledge Campaign. It's a festive pot luck affair with great hors d'oeuvres, music, and community.