All members and friends are invited to learn about implicit racial biases on January 13 from noon to 1 p.m. in the parish hall parlor. This session also serves as an introduction for those planning to attend the workshop on February 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Stan Gross and Kendra Pelojoaquin will lead … Continue reading Implicit Racial Bias: Introduction

This 50-minute documentary follows the lives of four young Palestinians who have been detained and imprisoned under the Israeli military system. Join us for the screening, plus food and conversation. Sponsored by Theodore Parker Church and UUs for Justice in the Middle East. More information:  Imprisoning A Generation Flyer

Stan Gross and Kendra Pelojoaquin will lead a day of workshops on implicit racial bias, which will introduce ways of gaining awareness of these often hidden biases.

Participate in the Kids for Peace Great Kindness Challenge with your family. Then, join us for the party — fun and friendship, games and music, pizza and snacks. Your checklist of Acts of Kindness is your ticket to enter. Complete one or many! www.greatkindnesschallenge.org   #GKCfamily Hosted by the Religious Exploration Committee. All are welcome. Believe in the … Continue reading The Great Kindness Challenge Family Edition Wrap-up Celebration

Have you had experiences that brought you into a space you might call Holy? "Holy" is capitalized to convey how deeply tender and vulnerable these experiences may feel, and also how they may shine, feel wondrous, and widen our sense of reality beyond anything explicable. Some of us may label them with words like Spirit, … Continue reading Adult Religious Exploration: Begin Again

The Theodore Parker Church's Racial Justice Task Force is a co-sponsor of this film being shown at the Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist Church (6 Eliot Street). Stories of gang-involved youth, entangled in the intractable violence haunting Boston's neighborhoods, and the StreetSafe Boston social and street workers tasked with helping to transform their lives.  Click here … Continue reading Film: This Ain’t Normal

All are invited to our annual Fellowship Fest. Guest musician Adam Feldman will kick off the evening as we gather to celebrate and begin our Gather & Grow Pledge Campaign. It's a festive pot luck affair with great hors d'oeuvres, music, and community.

Come dance with us! A band of enthusiastic musicians from the TPC community will play for the dance, and there will be a professional caller who is experienced with teaching contra and folk dance styles. All are welcome, including newcomers. Contra dancing is a lively and fun tradition, strong in New England since Colonial times. … Continue reading Contra Dance

Nancy Wilber, Steve Greene, and Rev. Anne invite you to the second meeting of Begin Again. In this group, we share our various experiences of the "Holy," however we might view and name that. In this month's meeting we will "begin again" with our feelings and reactions to God -- as images, experiences, beliefs, doubts, … Continue reading Begin Again: Sharing Experiences of the Holy

As we move toward an Annual Meeting discussion of this idea of a Theodore Parker Church "sister" relationship with the Salvadoran community of Plazuelas, we have more opportunities to discuss the idea from various angles. On Saturday, April 27, you're invited to a gathering designed for you to hear from representatives of Boston-area congregations who … Continue reading Plazuelas-Parker Project