If you would like to purchase flowers in honor or in memory of a loved one, please make sure your donations are in no later than March 31. Order forms are on the table in the back of the sanctuary. You can also drop a check off at the mail slot on the office door. Please indicate which flower(s) you would like. Prices are below: Tulips: $10 Hyacinth: $10 Lily: $20

We are thrilled to announce that UUNB has been awarded grants from the New Bedford, Dartmouth, Mattapoisett, and Acushnet Local Cultural Councils to support the 42nd Annual Jazz Concert on June 28, 2026!

Free author talk, sponsored by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, will take place during Thursday, March 12, AHA! night at the First Unitarian Church in New Bedford. Details inside!

Greetings my friends! I’ve been keeping you all in my thoughts while we’ve been battling the blizzard and its aftermath. I hope you are all safe and warm and, hopefully, semi-dug out by now. As inconvenient as this storm has been, it has been a great time to exercise this month’s Soul Matters theme of Paying Attention.

How do we lean into the unknown while remaining rooted in our values? This is the tension at the heart of our faith, calling us both to question boldly and to remain grounded in our commitment to justice, equity, and the inherent worth of every person.

Breathe, my friends, breathe. Our Soul Matters theme this month is Embodying Resilience, following up on last month's Practicing Resistance. And we’ve had quite a month of resistance. I don’t need to tell you what you already know and have seen with your own eyes. The systems we relied on to follow the rule of law have broken down and communities are being intimidated and terrorized; there’s no other way to put it. People are afraid, but they are also practicing resistance ev

When we ask ourselves to “Reimagine Thriving”, what does that mean?  Why reimagine?   Can’t we just imagine and get on with it? Here’s why it’s important to reimagine: most of us already imagine thriving, and that usually means imagining what it means for me and people like me to thrive: for people of privilege, that means imagining thriving for people of privilege; white people for white people, Americans for Americans, global majority for global majority, and so forth.  

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." Albert Camus

The New Year has arrived, and I think many of us are glad to wrap-up 2025. The anxiety and chaos that has become our daily bread in this country won’t stop because it’s a new year, of course, but the beginning of something always gives us a little boost of hope that change happens, no matter what. How it changes is largely up to us and how bad we want it. Ask 80% of people who made a resolution this week how they’re doing with that in March. 

This is the last newsletter of 2025! Inside you will find a message from Karen & Jess....amongst other cool things.

What is hope? It is a hunch that the overwhelming brutality of facts that oppress and repress is not the last word. It is a suspicion that reality is more complex than realism wants us to believe and that the frontiers of the possible are not determined by the limits of the actual. -Rubem A. Alves