Continuing our exploration of UU sources, the Reverend Alix Klingenberg will help us trace the connections between our origins in Transcendentalism and today’s religious naturalism, with a nod to pagan traditions surrounding the spring equinox. Spring is just around the corner, so come get ready. Rev Alix will join us via the magic of Zoom. … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Nature Is Enough”
March 12 marks the 101 st birthday of Jack Kerouac, the writer who became a symbol of cultural change in the United States. Join Diane Wright as we look at the details of his life and the themes of his writings. Service leader: Doris Bergen. Children’s RE: Activity in lower level during the service. Note … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Something Good Will Come of All Things Yet: Reflections on the Birthday of Jack Kerouac”
“A Little History: The Unitarian Universalist Flaming Chalice and the Hopedale Community’s Mission Statement and Covenant.” Presenter and service leader: Celia Ellison. Please note that Hopedale will be celebrating its 33 rd birthday with a birthday party social hour. Please come! Children’s RE: Class from 9:30 – 10:15 a.m., then they will join their families … Continue reading Sunday Service: “A Little History”
Join Terry Perlin, Miami Professor Emeritus and former member of Hopedale to explore one of our sources. Humanism – the theory that humans are the true source of values and morality – has roots in Ancient and Renaissance teachings. It is alive today and includes the spread of a “religion of Ethics.” Service leader: Celia … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Searching for Humanism: Then and Now”
UUs celebrate and/or recognize several religious holidays from other faith traditions. On this Sunday we will celebrate Luminesence, a UU holiday which represents the light we generate as members of the UU faith. For the past two years we have celebrated this candle-lighting service only on Zoom. Please join us in person as we have … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Luminesence: A Holiday UUs Can Call Their Own”
The UUA lists six categories of sources that inform and guide our faith. This list is not exclusive, and many of these tend to overlap or enhance each other. This leads to the conclusions that in each individual’s free and responsible search for truth and meaning some sources will have a greater resonance than others, … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth: Symbolic Freemasonry as Personal Source”
Come join Diane Wright as we reflect on a larger understanding of our assets, liabilities, and the meaning behind our choices to save and to share. Service leader: Libby Earle. Children’s RE: Class from 9:30 – 10:15 a.m., then they will join their families for the service.
At this time of year, when the cold seeps deep into the landscape, the days are also lengthening, and we find ourselves halfway between solstice and the beginning of spring. Join Diane Wright as we reflect on the importance of acknowledging these last weeks of winter, and the ways they hold the seeds of spring. … Continue reading Sunday Service: “What Does the Groundhog Know? Celebrating Imbolc and the First Hints of Spring.”
As Unitarian Universalists we affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning; thus, we do not always believe the same things as one another, even as we worship together. Join service leader Jennifer Blue as we hear from four of our congregants, ages 17 to 92, about their personal religious beliefs. … Continue reading Sunday Service: “This I Believe.”
Genevieve O’Malley Knight and Curt Ellison will share the message of Dr. King’s sermon to the UUA at General Assembly in 1966, and we will hear his own voice on this same topic in a 1968 sermon at the National Cathedral. Service leader: Genevieve O’Malley Knight. Children’s RE: Activity in lower level during the service.
