Pride: Joyful Resilience

This Sunday we celebrate Pride at First Parish! Join us for stories and music about the joyful resilience embodied by queer and trans people throughout time. Receive a Glitter Blessing to carry you into the week. Stick around for our Coffee Hour Pride Fest where we’ll have nail art pens, temporary tattoos, stickers, and Pride … Continue reading Pride: Joyful Resilience

Milestones

 It’s our annual Milestones service! Join us this Sunday as we welcome new members, celebrate our graduates, and extend our gratitude to all of the people whose time, energy, and enthusiasm filled our congregational life this year. 

Celebrating John C. Kimball – Eighth Minister, First Parish Church – 1860-1870

It was a time of great stress in our Church. As the American political environment spiraled out of control with threats of the South’s secession, the abolition of slavery, and the activism of organized labor, our congregation, being without a minister for a year and a half, was desperate for a strong religious leader to … Continue reading Celebrating John C. Kimball – Eighth Minister, First Parish Church – 1860-1870