Category: Adult Learning

Find Your Oxygen Mask – An Interactive Workshop 

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Sunday, January 19, 2025 11:45 am–1 pm The FUSF Welcoming Congregation Initiative Team invites you to an interactive workshop titled, “Find Your Oxygen Mask.”  Members of the LGBTQIA+ community, their allies, and anyone interested in learning more, are welcome to attend. We will connect, learn, and share resources, fears, and hopes during these uncertain times. We hope that whoever you are, wherever you are from, whomever you love, whether your heart is heavy or light, … Continue reading Find Your Oxygen Mask – An Interactive Workshop 

An Evening of Conversation Regarding Food Sovereignty and Access

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with Special Guest Speaker Sister Anna Gilbert-Muhammad Thursday, April 24, 2025, 7–8.30 pm The FUSF Food Justice team invites you to share an evening of thoughtful discussion with our special guest, Sister Anna Gilbert–Muhammad. Sister Anna will focus on the current state of food justice, access and sovereignty issues in Massachusetts. This is a particularly timely topic given the current pressures on our food system from climate change and the rapidly changing policies at the … Continue reading An Evening of Conversation Regarding Food Sovereignty and Access

FUSF Whole-Food Plant-based/Vegan Potluck

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Monday, May 5 at 6:00 PM Please bring a whole-food plant-based dish to share (completely vegan). We will discuss food, health and share ideas. If you don’t know what to make, just ask. Or, just come without something. There will be plenty of food! No matter what you usually eat, please join us to eat delicious food together! Questions? Contact Stirling Cousins. (Contact info can be found in Breeze.)

Conversations on Walden

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Join us as we read and discuss 8 chapters in Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, focusing on how Thoreau’s ideas relate to the ways we may choose to live in the twenty-first century.  Bobbi Gerlits and Ann Parsley will be facilitating this Adult RE class. The class will meet in-person at the FUSF meetinghouse from 2–3:30 pm on 7 consecutive Sunday afternoons: February 11, 18, and 25; March 3, 10, 17, and 24.

Movies with a Message: Groundhog Day

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Friday, February 2, 7 pm Groundhog Day shows us that if we lived long enough, all of us would eventually choose to live more morally. In Groundhog Day, we learn that there’s no point worrying about the past or future. We should worry most about the present and how we treat other people in the moment. Popcorn will be provided, or bring your own favorite movie snack! Join us – Come for the comedy, and … Continue reading Movies with a Message: Groundhog Day

Ware Lecture Potluck

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Please join us Friday, November 17, 6-8 pm, at the Meetinghouse, for a potluck dinner where we will view the 2023 UUA General Assembly Ware Lecture, by Imani Perry, with discussion to follow. Imani Perry was the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American studies at Princeton University and a faculty associate with Gender and Sexuality Studies and Jazz Studies. In the summer of 2023 she joined the faculty at Harvard University as a Radcliffe Professor. She … Continue reading Ware Lecture Potluck

Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth: A Discussion Series

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Mondays from October 2–November 6 7–8.30 pm, at the Meetinghouse Please join us at the First Universalist Society in Franklin for an engaging spiritual journey, centered around the groundbreaking PBS six-episode series. World-renown mythologist and professor of religion Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers discuss myths as metaphors and the path to transcendence in dialogues that adroitly span millennia of history and far-flung geography. We will view each episode, and then engage in a lively discussion of … Continue reading Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth: A Discussion Series

The New UU

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In-person after worship services from 11.30-1 pm Are you new to Unitarian Universalism? Are you just getting to know FUSF? Have you been attending FUSF for a while? Then you’ll want to attend The New UU sessions!  Join Rev. Bev, members of the Connections Committee, and other special guests for this three-session Adult Education Program. The New UU is designed to introduce Unitarian Universalists to our faith tradition as well as to congregational specific programs, … Continue reading The New UU