Speaker: Rev. Beverly Waring

It Is Time Now!

Join us for our annual, inspirational Stewardship Service.  It is indeed time now. You have worked so very hard with your transitional minister over the past 18 months and it shows. It shows in the energy, in the fun you are having, in the environment we worship and learn and celebrate in together. It shows in the fact that you are ready for that next big step – the step towards calling your next settled … Continue reading It Is Time Now!

Brick Walls and Cathedrals

Join Rev Bev as we reflect on the difference between being focused on a task without a sense of a larger goal and being able to imagine a larger vision for one’s action. Let’s explore what it means to be inspired by the sublime rather than being mired in the mundane. Some say to hold out that larger vision requires exercising imagination. It means seeing what is not yet there and possibly may never be. … Continue reading Brick Walls and Cathedrals

Be Not Afraid

I want all of you to become evangelists. Before you go running from the room let me explain. Evangelism is about reaching out. But before we can reach out we have to reach in and reach down. When each of us can answer why we are Unitarian Universalists and why being a member of First Universalist Society in Franklin is important to us, then we are on the way to being evangelists.

The Examined Life

Our current Unitarian Universalist principles include the 4th Principle in which we affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. We all understand the free part. This service will focus more on the responsible part. As we make decisions and choices, how mindful are we of the responsibility, the impact, of our choosing to do something or not to do it?