Recent and Upcoming Services

February 2010

Sunday, Feb. 7 – “ What Did Jesus Really Say?” – Rev. Richard Trudeau
The opinion of scholars is that Jesus didn’t actually say many of the things that he is most often quoted as saying. This sermon will be a brief guide to what the experts think he did and didn’t say, and the reasoning behind their opinion. (Postponed from Jan.24.)

 Sunday, Feb. 14 – “ Following the Dao” – Rev. Richard Trudeau
This sermon is about Daoism, the ancient Chinese religion that advises us to relax, chill, and go with the flow. (Postponed from Dec. 27.)

 Sunday, Feb. 21 – “ Learning to Understand the World”– Mark Robert Schneider, Guest Speaker
Mark Robert Schneider of Weymouth, an educator and author of Disconnect: Why Americans Don't Understand the World and How We Can Learn, will speak. He will describe creative and successful efforts to counteract Americans' insufficient understanding of the world and global problems. Mark Schlesinger will host.

Sunday, Feb. 28 – “ Finally ‘Getting’ Chaplin’s Little Tramp” – Rev. Richard Trudeau
Though Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp was on TV all the time when Richard was a child, he could never understand why people loved that character. This sermon tells the story of how, one day last month, Richard finally got it.

March 2010

Sunday, Mar. 7 – “ If Our Ideas Are So Good, Why Is Our Denomination So Small?” – Rev. Richard Trudeau
This sermon uses the new theory of “memes”—cultural counterparts of genes—to suggest an answer.

Sunday, Mar. 14 – “ The Widow’s Gift” – Rev. Richard Trudeau
A “Sermon on the Amount,” inspired by the story of a poor widow’s gift to the temple (Mark 12:41-44).

Sunday, Mar. 21 – “ Apes That Cook?”– Rev. Richard Trudeau
For years scientists have tried to figure out the single most important factor that spurred our evolution from ape-like ancestors. Are humans best understood as “apes that walk on two legs,” as some have proposed? Or “apes that use tools”? Or “apes that talk”? This sermon explains the reasoning behind a new and promising theory that we are basically apes that cook.

Sunday, Mar. 28 – Rev. Michael Leduc, Guest Speaker