Kindness Advent Calendar

Kindness Advent Calendar

by | Dec 1, 2023 | News

Each day of Advent, this calendar will give you a suggestion for how to show kindness to strangers, loved ones, and even yourself. Click on the button below to open the calendar online. Each day will reveal a new photo, which when clicked on reveals a suggested act of kindness. Visit our Advent Calendar daily here, to reveal a new photo and suggested act of kindness. Or, click here to download a PDF of the calendar which you can print for easy reference. We hope you will find these ideas to be fun, easy, and meaningful ways to spread a little hope, peace, joy, and love during this holiday season.

Collecting Winter Gloves & Hats

Collecting Winter Gloves & Hats

by | Nov 30, 2023 | News

This December Crawford is again collecting hats and gloves for the homeless. Donations may be brought to church on Sunday and left in the box outside of the parlor or can be left in the bin on our front steps, along with any donations of food for the Woburn Council of Social Concern.  Hat and glove donations will be delivered to those in need in early January. This is our 10th year collecting winter wear for the homeless in Boston and we thank you in advance for your donations! If you have any questions, please reach out using our contact form.

Release The Kraken

Release The Kraken

by | Nov 19, 2023 | Sermons

In this, the final sermon of Pastor Anne Robertson’s Monster series, she asks us to consider why we might actually need monsters. Pastor Anne reflects on an essay by philosopher, writer, activist, and professor of psychology, Bayo Akomolfe

. “I say, ‘Release the Kraken!’ Unleash the primal on the familiar, disturb the edges, dispute the layers, find a place of stillness, press your ears to the ground to feel the rumblings of things outside your philosophy, linger by the shrubbery, improvise new rituals, pay homage to the nonhuman, and acknowledge the wilds whence you came.” —Bayo Akomolafe

Be sure to watch all the way to the end to see and hear our choir perform the Finale from Les Miserables. Soloists include James Guiterrez and Jenny Zuk, as well as Bryan Hilliard on trumpet and flugelhorn.

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The Monster Within

The Monster Within

by | Nov 12, 2023 | Sermons

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Werewolves, Vampires—these are all people who transform into monsters under certain circumstances. The warning they carry is that no human being is immune from taking a monstrous turn if the stars align; the struggle with our inner shadow is universal. How can we keep our own inner monsters in check?

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Saints and Heroes

Saints and Heroes

by | Nov 5, 2023 | Sermons

For All Saints Day, we will be remembering the saints of Crawford that we have lost. As we move into the final three weeks of Faith in an Age of Monsters, we will also take this week to look at not just saints, but heroes—those who fend off life’s monsters on our behalf or inspire us to become heroes ourselves.

The subject of heroes is more complex than you might think. To better explore the nuance, I have invited Sal Caraviello to join me in conversation on the topic instead of a traditional sermon. While Sal and I have talked through some general questions, the conversation during worship will be unscripted in the hopes of helping us all find some better questions rather than definitive answers.

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