Speaker: Rev. Anne Bancroft

Hello, I Must Be Going

June 20, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Anne Bancroft

Borrowing from Groucho Marx, we’ll celebrate our final service together with thoughts on where we’ve been, where we’re going, respectively, and the roadmap to get there. We’ll certainly honor the … Continue reading Hello, I Must Be Going

Playing at What We Want to Be: Infused with Joy

June 13, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Anne Bancroft

With the June theme of Play in mind, we’ll reflect back on words from a prayer I offered in June, 2015: May we find here a place of healing, to … Continue reading Playing at What We Want to Be: Infused with Joy

Carbonated Holiness (with thanks to Anne Lamott)

June 6, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Anne Bancroft

How exciting to begin the theme of PLAY—you can imagine my enthusiasm! So often we think of the spiritual life in contemplative terms: serious, thoughtful, and quiet. But joy and … Continue reading Carbonated Holiness (with thanks to Anne Lamott)

The Distance from Then to Now

May 30, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Anne Bancroft

On this last Sunday of May, with the theme of Story, we’ll consider how it is we humans make change: from despair to joy, from war to peace, from an … Continue reading The Distance from Then to Now

One Among Many — A Lesson in Humility

May 23, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Anne Bancroft

We’ll be honoring the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for the Earth in considering biodiversity and how our presence on this earth is shared – sometimes well, and sometimes not! How is … Continue reading One Among Many — A Lesson in Humility

Stories That Bind, or Set Us Free

May 16, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Anne Bancroft

With the theme of Story still fresh upon us, we’ll consider the ones we tell ourselves individually as well as collectively and wonder how it is they keep us constrained … Continue reading Stories That Bind, or Set Us Free

Once Upon a Time

May 2, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Anne Bancroft

We begin the theme of Story for the month of May. Storyteller and Coach, Lani Peterson, reminds us that our stories are our identities. We build them as we go … Continue reading Once Upon a Time

A Little UU Review

April 25, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Anne Bancroft

The Akan people of Ghana offer the Sankofa bird image as a symbol of retrieving what is good from the past, bringing it into the present, and using it in … Continue reading A Little UU Review

Finding the Messiah Among Us

April 4, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Anne Bancroft

Our Unitarian Universalist theology does not include the resurrection of Jesus. Still, there can be room in our hearts for the way that holiness is acknowledged in our midst. Join … Continue reading Finding the Messiah Among Us

Lenten Vespers

April 1, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. Rev. Anne Bancroft

On this last Thursday of Lent, we offer a half hour Vespers service at 6:00 p.m., using this Lenten period as an opportunity to consider what it is we are each … Continue reading Lenten Vespers

THEODORE PARKER CHURCH

Speaker: Rev. Anne Bancroft