Virtual Tour   As Andrea Reber said during her Emotional Intelligence speech, “despite our differences in skin color and class, we can connect deeply by being deeply human together. What a gift”. This is what Unitarian Universalists are all about, even after our world was struck with COVID. Never did anyone imagine a global pandemic…Read more Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence

Virtual Tour Worship During the Pandemic at the Pioneer Valley Shambhala Center   In the early morning of a cool fall day in Northampton, MA, members of the Pioneer Valley  Shambhala Center (PVSC) wake up and prepare themselves to head to the center’s meditation service. Instead of getting in their cars and driving to the…Read more Shambhala Center

Virtual Tour At the start of the pandemic, the Northampton Friends Meeting adapted to worship using online Zoom meetings. Each week, most members leave their cameras on and microphones muted as they worship in silence, unless they feel compelled by God to share vocal ministry, just like in an in-person meeting. However, one mother-daughter duo…Read more Northampton Friends Meeting

    Noah Barondes interrupted his October bar mitzvah ceremony to ask, to no one in particular, “Where are they going?” This ‘they’ would be the twenty some masked and socially distanced bar mitzvah attendees, caught in the act of an awkward, would-be surreptitious shuffle to the sunlight from the cold shaded tent they were…Read more Congregation B’nai Israel

Virtual Tour Two students sat in a room. It wasn’t just any room, though. It was an online Zoom personal meeting room. Soon after, a third participant appeared, a pastor. Pastor Bill Hodgeman of College Church, a non-denominational church with evangelical roots in Northampton, Massachusetts, was there to converse with and explain to us, the…Read more College Church

Virtual Tour Worship During the Pandemic at the Christian Science Society of Northampton     In times of crisis, religious communities remain beacons of hope, stability, and connection. However, this crisis poses a new set of challenges for everyone, and churches in particular have been forced to find new ways of providing support to those…Read more Christian Science Society of Northampton

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Virtual Tour Changes Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic Men, women, boys, and girls frantically walk to and fro anxiously getting ready for the day. Mother and son, father and daughter dressed in their finest formal dresses and button-down shirts. As they prepare for their weekly hour renewing the presence of Jesus’s spirit into their souls, they…Read more St. Valentine Polish National Catholic Church