This week we will explore the tension between fear and the call to transformation through the intertwined lenses of the Biblical story of Jonah and Abraham Maslow’s concept of the “Jonah Complex.” Jonah’s flight from divine purpose mirrors the human tendency to shrink from our highest potential—the fear of greatness, creativity, and responsibility that Maslow … Continue reading Fear and Prophetic Possibility

This Sunday invites reflection on the sacred work of transformation — personal, cultural, and planetary. Drawing inspiration from Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s Hospicing Modernity and Outgrowing Modernity, the service explores how endings can be acts of care: tending to what must pass so that new ways of being may take root. Thus, we honor the grief and grace … Continue reading When The Ending Is Just The Beginning

In every age, the soil of the world grows hard with tyranny—systems that choke the tender shoots of truth, compassion, and imagination. Yet even in such seasons, the Spirit calls gardeners. Like Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, we are summoned to cultivate beauty and resistance in unlikely ground. Her nursery rhyme, whimsical on its surface, hides … Continue reading On Contrarian Gardening: Or, How To Sow Seeds of Revolution

This Sunday, in honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), we remember the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust and widen the circle of our remembrance to include all who were targeted by Nazi terror: Roma and Sinti people, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, political dissidents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and countless others whose lives were deemed … Continue reading Remembering As Resistance

On this Easter Sunday morning we will gather to celebrate the season with music, reflection, Easter Eggs and more to honor the holiday.  The service “On the Afterlife of Love” will explore how the story of Jesus lives on—not only in ancient texts or inherited doctrines, but in the countless ways communities across time have … Continue reading On The Afterlife of Love

Join the congregations of the Greendale Ecumenical  Group as we gather to welcome the arrival of Easter on the shore of Indian Lake.  We’ll share in song, prayer, and promise to welcome again this moment of rebirth.

Join the congregations of the Greendale Ecumenical Group, their musicians and a combined choir for this annual honoring of the darkest night in the Christian liturgical calendar.  This annual opportunity to remember and reflect on the sacrifices many in our history have made for the betterment of humankind and the divine spirit which continues to animate … Continue reading Good Friday Tenebrae Service – “Worship in Shadows” at Greendale Peoples Church, 25 Francis Street, Worcester

Join us for our annual service of Universal Communion which honors the season and the religious roots that bring us to this moment of contemplation and communion.  The service offers participants the opportunity to engage of litany honoring the sources of our sustenance, the reality of our own incompleteness, and the hope that is embodied in … Continue reading Maundy Thursday Universal Communion Service

This Palm Sunday, we pause to consider the story of Jesus ‘triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, not from the center of the crowd, but from the quiet perspective of the donkey. What does this humble creature know that the cheering throngs do not? Through the lens of Unitarian Universalist values—humility, interdependence, and reverence for all beings—we … Continue reading What the Donkey Knows