Worship Service: Sunday, August 17, at 10am.
August 17 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Summer Worship online via Zoom ONLY
“My Hindu Conversion”
Rick Eastwick, Lay Worship Leader
Lay leader Rick Eastwick will tell the story of his conversion to Hinduism starting his junior year in college in January of 1970. His life was not going well at that time, and with that as the backdrop, he decided to take a course in meditation and Eastern religious literature that the Experimental College at Tufts was offering on the subject. Rick will tell how that meditation program changed his life, and how those lessons are still relevant today.
During the summer our Zoom-only worship is led each week by a member of our congregation. Rick Eastwick grew up in New England and graduated from Tufts University in 1971 with a degree in Applied Physics. He worked in industry for 42 years mostly in technical staffing for high tech companies in the Boston area. He was married twice, the second time to Marie Raduazzo, who succumbed to ovarian cancer in October of 2020. He has a son from his first marriage, who lives in California. He was raised Congregationalist but converted to Unitarian-Universalism in college partially because of its tolerance for Eastern religious ideas. He and Marie began attending First Parish in 1983.
View or download the Order of Service. Generally posted the Thursday before the service.
Or use your phone to participate with audio only by dialing 929-205-6099 then enter 859 7713 3204 followed by the pound key.
If you have trouble connecting via Zoom, you may view the sermon on our YouTube channel at a later date.