Join us for our annual joyous Flower Communion Sunday. We will also be honoring the transitions of our children and youth in our religious education program, including our youth bridging to young adulthood. Let us celebrate this community where at every age and stage we support the journey of becoming…

Our spiritual theme this month is Blessing.  What does it mean to be a blessing? What does it mean to be blessed? And as we are about to recognize the blessings around us and our own potential to bless, can we contribute to the healing of the world? Click to watch…

It is a beautiful thing to experience a sense of belonging—whether it is the spiritual work of learning to belong to oneself, the joys of belonging to a community, or the moral awakening that comes when we recognize we belong to the earth and to one another. Poet David Whyte…

This amazing Requiem depicts the timelessness of human existence, the procession of generations, human longings, profound sorrow, fear of the unknown, as well as light, hope, the ultimate joys of heaven, and, above all, peace.  Come take in the beautiful music presented by First Unitarian's Radiance Choir, members of our Chalice…

Mother’s Day is a day that is both particular and expansive for our community, which celebrates many kinds of families. As we explore our spiritual theme of “Join the Journey” through the lens of belonging, let us reflect on the role of family in our lives. Does it bring up…

**This was the sermon topic bid on by Laurie Lester for the 2024 – 2025 program year.** ... Our congregational year’s spiritual theme is “Join the Journey,” and our topic for the month of May is Belonging. The story of humanity can be told as a journey of migration. People move around the…

Ramadan, Passover, and Easter — with their rituals, joyful gatherings, and remarkable stories — are all behind us now. We are “back to our regularly scheduled programming,” so to speak. But we know we are living in times that are anything but ordinary. How do we keep these sacred stories…

People of all ages are invited to our festive annual Easter Service followed by an Easter Egg Hunt for our children. We are living through a season, where a metaphorical winter threatens to take over our lives. We are living through a moment where some may fear that oppression will…

Join Rev. Alison and Danielle Garrett at 7 p.m. in Eliot Chapel for our Good Friday service. This contemplative service is an opportunity to reflect on the pain and suffering of Jesus and remember the difficult price that is often paid in the work towards liberation and resurrection. Click here…

Join us for this very special service where First Unitarian’s Youth will lead us in worship on this month’s theme of liberation. They will offer inspiring poetry, original reflections and music, and a fun story for all ages in a celebration of the gifts and wisdom of this intergenerational community!…

All are invited to come to our Membership Celebration Sunday! We will be welcoming our newest members and honoring our longtime members – our spiritual companions on our shared religious journey. Our community is dynamic and always reforming as new people join with us in upholding Unitarian Universalist promises and…

Peace activist Philip Berrigan once said, “The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.” Clarity of vision, about both what’s happening in the present and what’s possible in the future, is dangerous to the…

Our inner vision helps guide us on our individual and collective faith journeys. What we hold as significant religious intuitions and what we claim is of ultimate importance - these both shape who we are becoming. In a faith where people hold many differing beliefs and philosophies, where can we…

The Jewish holiday of Purim, which has a Carnival like atmosphere, falls this week beginning Thursday evening. The holiday centers around retelling the Book of Esther – a memorable story that is both serious and silly – where fate and freedom hang in the balance. Let us explore the themes…

Our spiritual theme this year is “Join the Journey” and the topic for the month of March is “Vision.” In our congregation, we hold a vision of weaving the fabric of community from the strands of our separate lives. We are also about to embark upon a journey to articulate…

Rev. Sara LaWall from Boise UU Fellowship Ministry in a conservative, red, Christian Nationalist State often feels like a constant battle for a vision of the world that holds love at the center; protecting the rights and freedoms of every human. Holding on to that vision can sometimes feel exhausting…

We experience grief after people who are dear to us die. Yet there are pressures to quickly “get over it” and “move on.” If we succumb to them, the suppressed response will likely return to bite us and may be transferred across generations. That does not serve us. We’ll look…

When is it acceptable to cry in public? What national tragedies merit the flag being flown at half-staff? Who has access to bereavement leave when a loved one dies? Although it seems like a deeply personal topic, there are many social conventions dictating when and how we grieve. Two weeks…

Can you have religion without God? Our answer is yes as a religiously diverse movement, which includes humanists (atheists, agnostics, skeptics) and theists of all stripes. This feels especially relevant as the numbers of people who identify as nontheists and as religiously unaffiliated are on the rise. In honor of Black…

 Our spiritual theme of the year is “Join the Journey,” and this month’s topic is Grief. At the very beginning of the journey with a new US president, we may feel as if we are disoriented and without a compass. For many, a sense of trust in our democracy has…

Poet Maggie Smith begins her poem “Threshold” with the line, “You want a door you can be on both sides of at once.” But our society often prioritizes either/or thinking, constraining our imaginations and leaving little space for folks whose identities and experiences don’t fit neatly into boxes. Can we…

Join us for a special multigenerational service this weekend when we celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who preached about the triple evils of racism, poverty, and militarism. In addition, many leaders believe if he were still alive today, he would add ecological devastation. In…

In Celtic spirituality, thresholds, both literal and metaphorical, are associated with “thin places” where the distance between heaven and earth shrinks. Although not always comfortable places to remain, there is a magic that happens in these in-between places. What spiritual gifts are present in our own threshold moments and how…

Our annual spiritual theme of the 2024-2025 congregational year is “Join the Journey,” and this month we are specifically exploring “Threshold” as a way into the theme. As we arrive at 25 years into this century, it is an opportunity to reflect on where we have been and where we…

Join us for the 100th anniversary of our church Christmas pageant. An old story of mystery, love, and connection--made anew each year by our care and attention. May it always be so! Bring cookies to share and stay for socializing and Christmas carols after the service.  Click here to watch…

Our spiritual ancestor Henry David Thoreau once said, "Time measures nothing but itself." Do you agree? For some people, Jan 1st is a chance to reflect on what's happened the past year and make a fresh start. For others this turning of the calendar feels arbitrary. As we approach the…