Past Weekly Services

Matt Meyer leading worship.

Ours is a faith guided by covenant. As Unitarian Universalists, we believe that some things are better accomplished in community. A spiritual life is one of those. Social justice work is another. Join us for a service of rhythm, music, covenantal community and collective action.

Matt Meyer is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and has studied abroad in Cuba, Ghana, and Central America. Matt has lead hundreds services for UU congregations across the country, has preformed at and lead worship at the last 6 General Assemblies of the UUA, served as Artist in Residence at a number of UU summer conference retreats, and plays with several world music groups in the Boston area. He is also on the planning team for the Lucy Stone Cooperative, a newly-forming Unitarian Universalist housing cooperative creating an intentional community and a center for social justice in the Boston area.For more about Matt and his music go to Rhythm Revelations

Michael Eselun preaching. ASL interpreted.

Michael Eselun is an oncology chaplain at UCLA Medical Center. He will share reflections on how we create meaning from our life experience. Is there such a thing as inherent meaning or is it all manufactured and does it matter?

Colleen Squires preaching.

Who has affected your life? An enlightened look at our seventh principal and our understanding of the interconnected web of which we are a part. Colleen Squires preaching.

Colleen Squires is originally from New Jersey and moved to the Boston area in the late 1980s. She is entering her last year at Andover Newton Theological School. Last year she did her Clinical Pastoral Education at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center/The Franciscan Hospital for Children and this fall she will start her internship at the UU Ubran Ministry and the First Parish Church in Dorchester. Colleen has been with her wife for 23 years and they are members of the UU Church of Medford.

Jennifer Channin preaching. ASL interpreted.

A striking feature of living in the 21st Century, in a cosmopolitan city like Boston with all sorts of communication and transportation tools at our disposal, is that we have the ability, more or less, to choose who we associate with. We can seek out those who share our interests or who are living the sorts of lives that we aspire to, and we can build communities with them based on values, interests, and activities we enjoy. The flip-side to this freedom is that the people who we depend on for our basic needs—for food, for shelter, for our clothing—are mostly people we do not know, sometimes thousands of miles away, anonymous to us. What role does needing each other play in deep, meaningful, healthy communities? This service will explore whether it is choice or need that makes a community strong, and how we might deepen and strengthen our relationships with others

Jennifer Channin recently completed her second year (out of three) in the Master of Divinity program at Harvard Divinity School and is preparing for UU ordination. While a student at HDS, she completed two field placements. The first was as a chaplain in the CPE program at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. The second was as an intern at the American Friends Service Committee, in Cambridge, MA, where she worked on projects involving the juvenile justice system in New England. Prior to beginning Divinity School, she lived in Brooklyn, NY, where she worked as a fundraising consultant to nonprofit organizations. She is a graduate of McGill University, class of 2004, and received a BA in International Development Studies. Jennifer grew up in the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, NJ.