First Parish in Bedford Earth Day Service “The Peace of Trees”
First Parish in Bedford, Unitarian Universalist 75 The Great Rd, BedfordThe guest speaker for this year's Earth Day Service is Reverend Fred Small, a Unitarian Universalist pastor, singer-songwriter and former environmental lawyer who serves as Minister for Climate Justice at Arlington Street Church, Boston. "The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence," wrote Trappist monk and peace activist Thomas Merton. "The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace… It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful." As we work together for social and environmental justice,