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.
Peter Carels will provide a variety of instruments. Our traditional service will be slightly re-arranged to provide opportunity to share our spirit with the help of percussion. Service leader: Kathleen Carels. Children’s RE: Class from 9:30 – 10:15 a.m., then they will join their families for the service.
Join the Sunday Service Committee for a combined coffee hour/New Year’s Day informal intergenerational service which will feature expanded Joys & Concerns and Congregational Reflection about the Old and New Years. Intergenerational service.
Join us for lessons and carols, many carols. If you are joining us on Zoom please have a candle with you, if possible, so you can participate in sharing of the light that ends the service. If you are coming in person please bring cookies to share after the service. No Sunday-morning service on Sunday, … Continue reading Special Saturday Evening “Christmas Eve Service”
