Founded in 2024, Sudbury Meetinghouse, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to expand the secular use of the historic meetinghouse. To mark the beginning of this exciting journey, Sudbury Meetinghouse invites the entire community to a FREE celebration in the Town Center on Saturday, September 13. In anticipation of the launch event, Tom…

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. The action-adventure video game No Man’s Sky was released in 2016 after a massive media push making incredible claims about the player experience — for the first time, a nearly unlimited space-based sandbox, where the main story arc was only the beginning. As it turns out, those claims…

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. I discovered something kind of wonderful, my daughter likes some of my music — at least the songs she doesn’t call “old and tired” — she’s seven, y’all. Country Road During this end-of-summer lull between camp and school, our membership to Davis Farmland has been pretty…

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. It’s not about you! If you’d just get your head out of your ass and worry about others, you could do some great things.  This is not only one of the most helpful pieces of pastoral advice I ever received, but it’s probably the most important piece…

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. Last week, I wrote about a type of powerful healing that — despite being accessible to us all, feels all-too-rare — the healing that comes from loving ourselves and others. In writing that, I also wrote a segment that didn’t make the edit, but it’s been on my…

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. Growing up, I dreamed of being powerful — not the political power, or even power over others, but powerful in my own right. Of course Superman’s power was alluring, but what I needed was healing. Hello, Fellow Humans For those of you madly looking for a…

INTRODUCTION An iron sculpture commissioned by the Friends of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail has been completed.   The sculpture was fabricated by Walter Clark at the Stonybrook Fine Arts workshop in Jamaica Plain.  It has been gifted to the Town of Sudbury as an artistic sculpture in iron to be installed along the Bruce…

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. Reflecting on human nature is kind of my thing, and it always has been. This is part of what drew me to study the Bible — it’s a massive anthology of humanity at its best and hot-messiest. It’s also what made me mildly obsessed with the Enlightenment. …