Upcoming Services

Sunday Services

This year

We offer hybrid worship services. You are welcome to join us in the Sanctuary, but if you are unable to be there in person or feel safer staying remote, the services are live on Zoom.

May 19 – Evolution, Part 3: Together We Thrive

May 19, 2024

10:30 AM

Led by Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs and Elizabeth Foster

The theory of evolution was a breakthrough in human understanding of the world, but like all big ideas, the theory could be and was misused. However, scientists have persisted and listened to what Mother Nature has to teach.

This service will be in person in the Sanctuary and virtual on Zoom.

The Zoom link to join us is: https://zoom.us/j/95664457049?pwd=RjBpWERkZWllQjk4TjJ4YnVNQ1NqZz09

Or by phone 1-929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 956 6445 7049
Passcode: 607303

May 26 – Public Memory, Creative Art, and Theology

May 26, 2024

10:30 AM

Led by Rev. Dr. Michelle Walsh

Five Points Cluster Shared Service

As we honor Memorial Day, how can we broaden our reflection on the theological meaning of public memory as conveyed through public creative art? What role do public ritual and public art play in trauma responsiveness and in cultivating our social and spiritual moral imaginations?

This service will be virtual only on Zoom.

The Zoom link to join us is: https://zoom.us/j/95664457049?pwd=RjBpWERkZWllQjk4TjJ4YnVNQ1NqZz09

Or by phone 1-929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 956 6445 7049
Passcode: 607303

June 2 – The Way is Long

June 2, 2024

10:30 AM

Led by UU Urban Ministry, guest preacher Rev. Mary Margaret Earl

Justice work is the work of faithful people. How do we keep going when the way is steep and muddy and hard? A reflection and ritual to renew ourselves for the journey.

Bio: The Rev. Mary Margaret Earl has served as Executive Director and Senior Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry for 9 years. In this ministry, she strengthens connections between UUs and the Roxbury neighborhood where the UUUM operates. She has served on the leadership team of Moral Movement Massachusetts, the Roxbury Cultural Network, and currently serves on the search committee for the new Roxbury Community College president. Prior to her arrival at the UU Urban Ministry, she spent 10 years at a faith-based nonprofit in RI serving the homeless community. She is past president of the Board of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless, recipient of the Heroes of Faith Award from the Rhode Island State Council of Churches for her interfaith work, and she received a Courage of Conscience award from the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, MA. She also is a longtime vegan committed to standing up for nonhuman animals.

This service will be in person in the Sanctuary and virtual on Zoom.

The Zoom link to join us is: https://zoom.us/j/95664457049?pwd=RjBpWERkZWllQjk4TjJ4YnVNQ1NqZz09

Or by phone 1-929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 956 6445 7049
Passcode: 607303

June 9 – Legacies of Burden and Liberation

June 9, 2024

10:30 AM

Led by Elizabeth Foster (her final sermon for her FPUU ministerial internship)

For good or ill, our lives are shaped in large part by the institutions with which we interact. We’ll talk about institutions here in Canton and elsewhere that have been changed for the better, and some that haven’t. How can we move towards more liberative institutions in our community and beyond?

This service will be in person in the Sanctuary and virtual on Zoom.

The Zoom link to join us is: https://zoom.us/j/95664457049?pwd=RjBpWERkZWllQjk4TjJ4YnVNQ1NqZz09

Or by phone 1-929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 956 6445 7049
Passcode: 607303