A Unitarian Universalist pastor, singer-songwriter, and former environmental lawyer, Rev. Fred Small serves as Minister for Climate Justice at Arlington Street Church, Boston.
Join us for our Sunday Service led by Rev. Fred Small. All of us are products of our upbringing and environment, some of it positive, some less so. Are we destined to repeat the reactive patterns of our past, or are we free to chart a new course? Order of Service
Join us for our Sunday worship service led by Rev. Fred Small. With escalating threats of violence, authoritarianism, and ecological and social breakdown, some argue that hope has become a harmful distraction—“hopium,” they call it. But the more we are tempted by despair, the more we need hope to sustain us through hard times. Order … Continue reading Sunday Service: In Defense Of Hope
Our Sunday Service will be led by Rev. Fred Small. Our service will be in person in our sanctuary. If you can’t join us in person, you are welcome to join us on Zoom in any of these ways: Before attending service in person please read our Covid Policy. Order of Service
Join us for our Sunday Service, led by Rev. Fred Small. A glass vase will one day shatter. If we accept it as “already broken,” Buddhists advise, we may appreciate it more while it is whole. In this sense, everything is already broken: our bodies, our relationships, our government, our planet. But at the soul level we are also “already whole”—innocent, … Continue reading Sunday Service: Already Broken, Already Whole
Join us for our Sunday Service, led by Rev. Fred Small. In the difficult decades to come, we will need courage, fortitude, and love. But we will also need equanimity: the ability to see things as they are, without attachment or aversion. We are most effective when we are calm and at ease, able to … Continue reading Sunday Service: Be Not Afraid
Join us for our Sunday Service led by guest minister Rev. Fred Small. Joy is making a comeback! In times of suffering and danger, joy can seem unrealistic, even irresponsible. Yet in the long struggle for peace, justice, and freedom, joy may be indispensable. How can we nourish and cultivate authentic joy? Our service will … Continue reading Sunday Service: Risking Joy
Join us for our Sunday Service led by Rev. Fred Small. In the face of intersecting crises like climate change, racism, and rising authoritarianism, it’s easy to become disheartened. How do we sustain our spirits in these challenging times? How do we know what action to take? How do we love this world? Before attending … Continue reading Sunday Service: How to Love This World
Join us for our Sunday Service led by Rev. Fred Small. “The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence,” wrote Trappist monk and peace activist Thomas Merton. “The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace… It destroys the fruitfulness of our own … Continue reading Sunday Service: The Peace of Trees
Join us for our annual Christmas Eve service led by Rev. Fred Small. The service will feature carols, a candlelit circle and singing Silent Night. Alex Cumming, the choir, and Russell Tripp will share their musical talents. Our offering will go to the World Wildlife Fund, whose mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most … Continue reading Christmas Eve
Join us for Sunday worship as we continue to explore October’s theme of Belonging with guest minister Rev. Fred Small: “Any contemplation of global climate change, its frightening consequences, and the tardiness and timidity of nations in response is necessarily a meditation on hope. When the earth and its peoples are in such distress, where do we find hope?” … Continue reading Radical Hope
