Lenten Series: Death and Dying Well Tuesdays March 11th through April 15th 6:30-8:00pm – Tucker/Palmer Rooms Lent is a season of humble reflection on our mortality in general and specifically the passion and death of Jesus Christ and how that speaks to our own lives and deaths. We begin Lent on Ash Wednesday with the […]
Tonight is our first session in our Lenten Death and Dying Well series. We’ll gather at 6:30pm and after some simple soup and bread to break together (thank you Julianne and Elizabeth!), Rev. Will will present the night’s topic – Death and Christian Theology. We’ll meet in the Tucker Room and wrap up by 8pm. […]
Wed. Feb 12 7 PM on Zoom Join Rev. Will on Zoom on Wednesday night, February 12th at 7pm for a conversation around the scriptures slated for the following Sunday. We’ll be digging into Jeremiah 17:5-10 and Luke 6:17-26. Feel free to come if you know the Bible well or hardly at all. We welcome and […]
We’re PLATYPUS, FCCW’s long-running men’s group, and we’re looking for fresh faces and minds to join us. We meet on Zoom every Wednesday morning from 8:30 to 9:30. We chat about a variety of things. Sometimes it’s personal, sometimes it’s a matter of great interest to our locale, our state, or the whole world. Our motto: “We solve […]
Unfortunately, this event has been postponed. When a new date has been scheduled, we’ll be in touch again to let you know. The Congregational Library & Archives, located at 14 Beacon St, brings old and new together, carrying forward a tradition of care for the world’s future by preserving and interpreting the 400+ year Congregational […]
Sign up extended to October 7th. Welcome back to Roots and Branches Roots and Branches begins again soon. It’s time to sign up for our third season! For each of the last two years we have had about fifty people participate in these small discussion groups, building friendships, having fun and probing areas of faith. […]
In the midst of this tense election season, we must work to meet “the other” as one beloved of God for whom Christ died. Loving our neighbors as ourselves takes practice and disagreeing in ways that honor the dignity of others is a skill to be learned. Toward that end consider joining us for “Disagreeing […]
For each of the last two years, there have been about 50 people meeting in these small groups, which are designed to help strengthen our church community, deepen friendships and encourage us each to examine our own faith. We are hoping to build on that again this year. “A Prayer for the Kingdom” is a series […]
Mondays with Jesus and Buddha When the heart is open, we are able to give and receive love freely, heal and transform emotional wounds, and engage with life with a spirit of curiosity and kindness. How do we cultivate such beautiful states of being? In the Buddhist tradition, there is the teaching on the Four […]
Sunday, January 21 7-9 pm on Zoom The month’s book is “Here in the Night” by Rebecca Turkewitz. It’s a collection of short ghost stories by an author who grew up in Winchester. Contact this year’s co-coordinators, Lynne Rahmeier or Susan Sawyer with questions.