Join Hopedale and other UU congregations as we celebrate the 100 th Anniversary of the Flower Service, typically held on the final Sunday before congregations break for the summer. Presenter and service leader: Celia Ellison. Intergenerational Service. @ 11:30 – Thank You Evan! Plan to stay after the service as we have a thank-you social … Continue reading Sunday Service –Flower Communion
This intergenerational service will recognize and feature those in our Religious Education program. Service leader: Genevieve O’Malley Knight.
Join Jennifer Blue, Darrel Davis and our youth as they celebrate the first time that this important program has been offered at Hopedale. Children’s RE: Class/Activity in lower level during the service. Second Sunday Collection for Reproductive Rights.
May 7 th @ 10:30 a.m. – Choosing Barabbas: Reflections in the Weeks After Easter Christian scriptures tell the story of a prisoner named Barrabas, who was imprisoned with Jesus. There was a tradition of releasing a prisoner on the day before Passover, and when the guards asked the crowd who they desired to release, they … Continue reading May 7 Sunday Service and more
Greater Cincinnati Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) visits the Unitarian Universalist Council of Greater Cincinnati with a Sunday-morning service at First Unitarian Church in Cincinnati. You are invited to attend at First Church or Hopedale, where the service will be livestreamed. How do we stop systems based in relentless extraction and move toward ways of … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Connections that Heal: Partnering for a Just Transition”
Oxford should be greener as a result of several projects that are in the works. Some are City efforts and others are the result of citizen actions. Peggy Branstrator will share what is planned and how you can be part of the fun!! Service leader: Bethany Smith. Intergenerational Service.
April 16 is World Semicolon Day. Project Semicolon was founded in 2013 by Amy Bleuel when, after the death of her father, she posted a picture of her new semicolon tattoo and wrote, “A semicolon is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence but chose not to. The author is you, and … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Hope in Unexpected Places on World Semicolon Day”
Leigh Waltz, Unitarian Universalist seminarian and ministerial aspirant, will discuss symbolic and literal returning to life. Through a cross-cultural lens, he will briefly look at commonalities in the theme of “life’s broader proportions” represented in various historic sacrifice events and other public challenges to mortality as they may relate to the Jesus event. Considering physical … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Easter, Large Cycles and Consilience in Broad-Scope Yeshu Theory”
Associated throughout her professional life with death and dying, Kim Ogle has experienced and studied the subject of death from many perspectives. She will share how her recent training as a death doula provides compassionate and intimate understanding and insights to families and friends who surround someone living with dying. Service leader: Kathleen Carels. Children’s … Continue reading Sunday Service: “What is a Death Doula?”
Join Dr. Matthew Smith (Miami University Hamilton), author of The Spires Still Point to Heaven: Cincinnati’s Religious Landscape, 1788-1873, for an illustrated tour of the forgotten Queen City. Discover how immigrants made Cincinnati the sixth-largest city in America by the eve of the Civil War, how Cincinnati earned its nickname Porkopolis, how religion shaped civic … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Exploring Cincinnati’s Forgotten Religious Landscape.”
