June’s Worship Theme at Follen is “Pilgrimage.”
Spiritual Exercise
We are lucky to live in a place where so many of our spiritual Unitarian and Universalist ancestors once lived, and where so many elements of our UU history happened and are happening now. In some ways, the Boston area is the UU “Mecca”!
Take a pilgrimage to one of these places, or another one you know of, and—do a little research on why they matter:
Walden Pond (Henry David Thoreau)
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s house (Concord MA)
The Alcott house (Concord MA)
The UUA (24 Farnsworth St, Boston MA)
The statue of William Ellery Channing (Arlington St, Boston)
King’s Chapel (Boston MA – oldest still-active church in America)
Margaret Fuller House (Cambridge MA)
UU Urban Ministry (Roxbury MA)
Covenant Groups
Read/Download June’s Covenant Groups Session on Pilgrimage
Suggested Community Reads
Every month Amy Newmark and Jane Spickett suggest some books related to the worship theme. For those who would like to connect a bit more with the theme of “Pilgrimage,” here are this month’s selections:
Ages 4-6
Hank Finds Inspiration Craig Frazier
The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Ages 5-8
The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams
Ages 8-10
Stuart Little E.B. White
Ages 9-12
The Inquisitor’s Tale, or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog Adam Gidwitz
Traveling Man : The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 (biography) James Rumford
Adults
How May I Help You?: An Immigrant’s Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage by Deepak Singh