Welcome!
We're different. Oh, are we different!
Don't let the name of the church fool you: we're not a Catholic nor an Episcopalian church. We're liberal
in that we expect people to think for themselves -- and we'll always discuss anything with anybody. There's the
joke about a group of people who came upon a fork in the road. One path had a sign that directed them to Heaven.
The other invited them to a discussion about Heaven. The UUs, of course, chose to discuss.
We're right here in Palmer, a couple of streets up from Main Street at the corner of Central and Park
Streets (on Route 20). You can't miss us- we're the huge cathedral-looking pile of gray granite with its beautiful
architecture and wonderful stained glass windows.
Sunday Services are at 10:00 am followed by coffee and social hour in Fellowship Hall.
During the Summer, we share services with 2 other Protestant churches in town:
The Principles of the
Unitarian Universalist Association
WE, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote:
- The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
- Justice, equity and compassion in human relationships;
- Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
- A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
- The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
- The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
- Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
Come as you are.
What you believe, bring with you as you come.
If you have doubts, bring them with you also.
Come as you are, and inescapably
you must come if you would be yourself.
Of others, ask no more or less.
Let us be what we are as best we can.
No one is perfect.
No one is better or worse than another
for no one has lived the life of the others.
All are seekers, no matter how much they have found.
All are in need, no matter how much they resent it.
All are proud, no matter how humble they wish they were.
Let beliefs, doubt, shame, pride, humility,
and the inescapability of self set side by side in mutual
and self respect until there comes the feeling
that, in depth of understanding and of feeling.
WE ARE ONE.
Reverend J. Donald Johnston
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