In a time filled with as many violent images, incidents, and impulses as ours, how can we hold to a vision of nonviolence? When we wish people “the peace the season” in the coming holidays, can we imagine how peace might feel and seem — for us

Touchstone of Non-Violence

Dec 10th, 2021 7m 16s

As we continue to explore our 2021-2022 Touchstone theme of “Repairing the World,” we recognize how imperative an ethic of non-violence is for everyone’s survival. Hear worship associate Lynn Foreman give her reflection on the November Touchsto

“Elemental Gratitude” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Nov 29th, 2021 17m 59s

What are the elements of a grateful outlook on life? How can we frame the past, present, and future tenses of our lives in terms that reinforce gratitude for our very existence? Apart from the fourth Thursday in November, where and when can we

“Organized Love” by Rev. Parisa Parsa

Nov 22nd, 2021 12m 6s

“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind,” we have heard. While we know that we don’t want to be punching or bombing or shooting people as a way to settle our differences or to get what we want, what does it mean to be nonviolent in h

“Shared Remembrance and Singular Loss” by Rev. Kelly Murphy Mason

Nov 16th, 2021 17m 43s

Why has it always been so important for us to share our individual losses with others in our community? How are our experiences of grief unique? What makes our mourning more universal? Hear Senior Minister the Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason preach

“Two Trinities and One Point” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Oct 31st, 2021 18m 49s

How do we come to understand who we truly are as people: by the words we use, by the choices we make, by the commitments we keep, by the relationships we form over time? What does it mean for us to keep faith with with one another — and with ou

“Life of Reverence” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Oct 24th, 2021 16m 53s

“The ripeness that our development must aim at is one which makes us simpler, more truthful, purer, more peace-loving, meeker, kinder, more sympathetic,” Dr Scweitzer wrote. “That is the only way in which we are to sober down with age.”Accor

“Living in Mysterious Times” by Rev. Hank Peirce

Oct 17th, 2021 18m 34s

During this prolonged pandemic, in times as uncertain as ours, what might help us find our way back to feeling more at home in the world? Hear Guest Minister the Rev. Hank Peirce preach his sermon “Living in Mysterious Times.” This sermon was g

“Keeping Agreements” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Oct 10th, 2021 19m 44s

"One of our guiding UU principles is respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part, and we need to understand the part we play in it America now, the part we have played, and the part we would like to play well into

“Flock of Us” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Oct 3rd, 2021 19m 30s

It is often said that human beings are social animals — but what sort are we: herds or packs or gaggles or flocks or… ? How can connecting with creature life make us more fully (and joyfully) human? Hear Senior Minister the Rev. Dr. Kelly Murph

“What Possible Reason?” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Sep 26th, 2021 13m 4s

How reasonable can we be when we cannot fully understand the reasons behind things? How can we better understand our and others’ reasons for doing things — and for not doing them?

“Principled & Purposeful” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Sep 19th, 2021 18m 58s

What principles and purposes guide us in our choices and actions and commitments — both as community of faith and as a collection of faithful people? How well do we understand our call to covenantal relationships — and how well do we maintain

“Waterways and Our Ways” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Sep 12th, 2021 17m 54s

2021 Ingathering Celebration and Annual Water Ceremony -- our very first in-person worship service for more than 18 months!

“This Is How We Rise” by Joan DeArtemis, M.Div.

Jun 6th, 2021 23m 31s

How did we go from the FBI "surveillance of homosexuals" in the 1950s to having an openly gay Secretary of Transportation and the highest rated cable news program hosted by an openly lesbian political commentator? How did people who were memb

“A Family Expanding” by Michael Packard

May 30th, 2021 12m 27s

"Despite the constraints of our psychologicaldevelopment, and whether our needs are being met or not, we still have thecapacity to take control of a difficult situation and turn it into something thatleads to our personal growth. Our faith c

“Accepting Acceptance” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

May 23rd, 2021 12m 7s

"We had to accept that the dangers the pandemic posed were real and take them seriously enough to rearrange all our lives accordingly. And soon, we will need to rearrange our lives all over again as we emerge from quarantine. While this might b

“Many Madonnas” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

May 9th, 2021 17m 4s

"It was on these particular drives that I met Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted. She shelters at a parish in Waltham, for those of you who were wondering. Having been raised Catholic and educated in parochial school, I have known many a Lady

“Rising Eastertide” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Apr 4th, 2021 19m 34s

"Once more I am reminded of how durable and expansive faith communities are, and, indeed, have been for millennia now."

"After Captivity" by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Mar 28th, 2021 17m 50s

"Don’t let the deepest impressions that this difficult time has made on you be lost. Don’t overlook your own spiritual accomplishments this past year, however minor you might believe them to be. My guess is that most of you found something libe

“In All Respects” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Mar 21st, 2021 13m 24s

"Perhaps we should all be a little less certain of ourselves these days and a great deal more curious about others — including others quite unlike ourselves."

“A Wider Power” by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Mar 14th, 2021 18m 3s

"Astrophysicists teach that we live in rapidly expanding universe whose grandeur is almost immeasurable, whose growth outpaces our metrics, whose billions and billions of galaxies containing billions and billions of stars call us to awe and hum

“The Disparity” by Joan Artemis, M. Div

Mar 7th, 2021

When we talk of gender equality, what do we mean?What is it like to have the same access to everything, irrespective of gender?Does history always have to be “His Story?” What does it mean when it isn’t? Whose story is this?

“Living History’ by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Feb 28th, 2021

"The history of UU Wellesley Hills is thick with the history of this town, of Boston and also the Commonwealth — and beyond that, with the history of these United States and yes, colonialism and Europe and Western civilization and global histor

"Plea for Mercy" by Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason

Feb 21st, 2021

"However guilty we think or feel ourselves to be, however guilty we actually are of major and minor transgressions, our innocence somehow remains, incontrovertible as our souls."