Current Work
Reimagine Policing in Brookline
The Task Force to Reimagine Policing in Brookline will explore and recommend new approaches to public safety and policing in Brookline. The Task Force will utilize a data-informed approach to interrogate our current model and provide a distinctly alternative approach to public safety.
Brookline Select Board’s Committee on Policing Reforms
The charge of this committee is to review and identify provision of the policies and procedures, aspects of training and education, and the practices and methods of supervision of the Brookline Police Department that, where necessary and appropriate, can be improved and updated. The Committee’s review shall be designed to determine changes that would result in better policing and wider support in the community, with special attention to support from Black and Hispanic communities, immigrant communities, residents of Brookline Public Housing, the LGBTQ community, and residents from other vulnerable communities. First Parish member Ron Wilkinson is a member of the committee.
Sermons and Services
Rev. Karlene Griffiths Sekou Preaches at First Parish
Rev. Griffiths Sekou is an international public speaker, preacher, scholar, with over 25 of experience working in grassroots community organizing and development, human rights advocacy, health equity, and cultural regeneration. Her research intersects gender, ritual, performance aesthetics, and political identity formation through and within social movements.
Living Into Our Faith
Our Living Memorial
The 8th Principle in Unitarian Universalism
The Black Lives of UU (BLUU) Organizing Collective encourages all Unitarian Universalists to advocate for the formal adoption of an 8th principle, articulating a commitment to the dismantling of white supremacy, within the stated principles of our faith. Learn more about the 8th Principle
UUA General Assembly: Call to Action
During the 2020 Unitarian Universalist Association’s (UUA) General Assembly, the resolution “Amen to Uprising: A Commitment and Call to Action was adopted. Read the full text of the Call to Action
Past Programs and Workshops
Brookline Select Board Member, Dr. Raul Fernandez
First Parish in Brookline’s Racial Justice Action Committee Forum with Select Board Member, Dr. Raul Fernandez on August 5, 2020. Watch a recording of the conversation with Dr. Fernandez