Our congregation provides many opportunities for friendship and community fellowship, intellectual stimulation, spiritual growth, involvement in social justice and other important issues, and pastoral support and mutual support of one another.  Ours is a diverse community of life-long learning and growing. We have no creed, but are joined together in the spirit of love and the light of our mission and vision, and Unitarian Universalist principles , which you will find elsewhere on this web site

We are a congregation for children, youth and adults of all ages.  We are intentionally inclusive, embracing and appreciating people of every age, race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and economic circumstance. We welcome people from all religious backgrounds and beliefs and we support you in your seeking and growing.

First Unitarian Church is seeking to fill the position of Director of Religious Education

For information about this opening, click HERE

Bill Epes

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A Paean to Teachers

If it takes a village to raise a child, who teaches? What is taught? Who decides? And does it require faith to teach school in 2010? If so, should we treat “the call” to teach as respectfully as Unitarian Universalists treat the call to ministry? As classroom teachers approach spring break, new First Church member Bill Epes reflects on the meaning of teaching, searches for its historical roots as a spiritual act, and asks whether teaching has become a ministry – especially in schools where students continue to be targets of gang, gun and even on-line violence. He suggests that UU congregations may be uniquely positioned to inspire teaching at its best, especially as a life-long practice, and to reap, and sow immeasurable benefits.

Bill Epes, son of a career pre-school/kindergarten teacher and arts educator, joined First Church in 2009. He has taught The Odyssey to ninth graders, forest ecology to high schoolers, fish anatomy to third-graders, inquiry-based science education to elementary and secondary teachers, and poetry to anyone who will listen. He is a former editor of the third-grade edition of Scholastic News; has reviewed PBS science programming for the U.S. DOE’s on-line Consumer’s Guide to Afterschool Science Resources; and once served New York State’s largest environmental center, piloting science courses for homeschoolers, and professional development workshops for New York City teachers.