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​January 2026

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January 4 | Going Softly

In case we have come barreling into the New Year, resolute with purpose, power, and productivity, let us take a moment to pause. To resolve to move more slowly. To be softer. And to hold on to the power of vulnerability.

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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January 11 | Service for the Animals

In this service led by the Animal Ministry team, we celebrate the sentience of animals. Humanity has a long, complicated history with nonhuman animals. How should we treat animals today, both wild and domestic? What does it cost us—or what can we gain—by treating them the same way we want to be treated? (Please leave beloved animals at home)

— Adam Durand

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January 18 | No One Stands Alone

As we celebrate the bold life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let us remember that he was not a lone hero but the representative of an entire movement, spanning nations and generations. Power, when it moves toward justice, is broad and diverse.

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

 

​January 25 | Beginning Again in Love

In this season of Power, let us honor one of the cornerstones of community–the power of accountability. When we bind our lives together in community, we need to get good at apologies, forgiveness, and beginning again in love. 

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell​

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*First Universalist has a long-standing tradition of having one Sunday sermon a month be presented by someone other than our minister. Our lay-led services give our minister well-deserved unscheduled time, as well as allowing us to share our individual spiritual journeys, experiences and diverse world views, which is an important part of our rich Unitarian Universalist heritage.