Shows
Arlington Street ChurchSERMON: Clouds of Witnesses: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, May 25, 2025.2025-05-2520 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Seeing Whole: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, May 4, 2025.2025-05-0420 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: A Love Stronger Than Death: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Apr 20, 2025.2025-04-2013 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: What Is Luminous Among Us: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, April 13, 2025.2025-04-1319 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Of the Essence: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Mar 23, 2025.2025-03-2322 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Flourishes of Flourishing: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Mar 2, 2025.2025-03-0219 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: More than a Feeling: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Feb 23, 2025.2025-02-2317 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Walk this Way: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Feb 9, 2025.2025-02-0921 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Avoiding Shipwreck: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Feb 2, 2025.2025-02-0221 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Who Is Our Neighbor?: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Jan 26, 2025.2025-01-2617 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Being BeLoved: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Jan 12, 2025.2025-01-1222 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Only Connect: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Jan 5, 2025.2025-01-0520 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Night Work: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Dec 22, 2024.2024-12-2219 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: The People's Peace: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Dec 8, 2024.2024-12-0816 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Shining Through the Cracks: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Nov 24, 2024.2024-11-2419 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Looking to the Light: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Nov 7, 2024.2024-11-1020 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: A Song Like Sustenance: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Nov 3, 2024.2024-11-0325 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Ghosts & Ancestors: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Oct 27, 2024.2024-10-2718 min
Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | CommunicationsEp 214: Productive Conversations in Polarizing Conflicts (with Parisa Parsa)Nonprofit Leadership Lab CEO, Glennda Testone, and Parisa Parsa explore how nonprofit leaders can have productive conversations amidst polarization and division. Parisa shares practical strategies for addressing power dynamics and leading productive conversations across differences.2024-10-2648 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: A Joyful Mind: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Oct 20, 2024.2024-10-2019 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Days of Awe: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Oct 6, 2024.2024-10-0619 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: To Sing and Protect: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, Sep 29, 2024.2024-09-2916 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: Open Wide the Doors: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, September 22, 2024.2024-09-2219 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: The Selves We Bring Along: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, September 15, 2024.2024-09-1519 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: To Dwell in Possibility: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, September 8, 2024.2024-09-0815 minArlington Street ChurchSERMON: To Dwell in Possibility: Rev. Parisa ParsaRecorded live at Arlington Street Church, Sunday, September 8, 2024.2024-09-0815 min
From the Pulpit“Organized Love” by Rev. Parisa Parsa“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind,” we have heard. While we know that we don’t want to be punching or bombing or shooting people as a way to settle our differences or to get what we want, what does it mean to be nonviolent in how we approach community life? […]2021-11-2212 min
Commons Good: Stewardship and Starting PointsParisa ParsaThe Local Voices Network (LVN) is fueled by ordinary people sharing their voices in small-group, in-person discussions led by experienced conversation hosts in the community. LVN hosts organize these conversations in gathering spots such as libraries, community centers, and kitchen tables, where participants will have a unique opportunity to listen, learn, speak and be heard. LVN provides a new way for people to understand and engage with one another in their community. It also serves to amplify under-heard voices and perspectives for other local stakeholders (journalists, public officials, political candidates) who wish to tune into the community’s concerns. The LV...2020-04-221h 00Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | CommunicationsEp 84: Passion, Conflict, Diversity, and Leadership (with Parisa Parsa)Are you read to develop the skills, and manage the conflict that accompanies passionate and diverse points of view? As a leader, this is critical!2019-05-0456 min
Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | CommunicationsEp 84: Passion, Conflict, Diversity, and Leadership (with Parisa Parsa)Are you read to develop the skills, and manage the conflict that accompanies passionate and diverse points of view? As a leader, this is critical!2019-05-0456 min
?X21 ????????????? ???????Living into our 5th PrincipleSpeaker or Performer: Don Morrison
Date of Delivery: January 6, 2019
In our 5th UU principle, we affirm both personal conscience and collective, democratic processes. In the words of Rev. Parisa Parsa, “In our religious lives, the democratic process requires trust in the development of each individual conscience—a belief that such development is possible for each of us, as well as a commitment to cultivate our own conscience.” Considering that the oldest known model of participatory democracy in the world comes from Hau de no sau nee people (the Iroquois Confederacy), the roots of democracy are deep on...2019-01-0622 minNonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | CommunicationsEp 28: Difficult Conversations in Uncertain Times (with Parisa Parsa)Nonprofits are needed now more than ever. Strong leadership is needed more than ever. And we have to start doing a better job of listening to each other...2017-01-2135 minNonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | CommunicationsEp 28: Difficult Conversations in Uncertain Times (with Parisa Parsa)Nonprofits are needed now more than ever. Strong leadership is needed more than ever. And we have to start doing a better job of listening to each other...2017-01-2135 min
Good News from HopedaleFinding Our StarRev. Parisa Parsa of The Public Conversations Project/Essential Partners reflects on how we might hold to the call of the spirit in a nation that feels like it is tearing apart at the seams. What signals do we need to practice and send to find each other and begin to tell a different story?2016-10-0600 min