Please join Carla Blackmar, board member of the MOON cooperative; to discuss the ways producer, consumer, and worker cooperatives can help build thriving communities. She will present three types of cooperative economic structures, and provide local examples of how cooperatives prioritize people over profit. Service leader: Patty Klingenberg

Taking ideas from personal experience, books, and the comics, service leader Linda Amspaugh will explore the process of growing older.  What do you have to look forward to?  How do “old people” cope?  Are there advantages in being the oldest one in the room?  Are there connections between growing older and our Principles and Traditions?  … Continue reading Sunday ZOOM Service – On Growing Older:  It’s Better Than the Alternative.

Sex and gender are not the same thing, and both of them exist on a spectrum. During LGBT History month, on the day before Coming Out Day, service leader Jennifer Blue will lead us in a discussion of sex and gender and sexuality, and how understanding these concepts ties to our principles.

In the words of the Reverend Emily Gage, of Chicago, “Justice, equity, and compassion in human relations points us toward something beyond ‘inherent worth and dignity.’ It points us to the larger community. It gets at collective responsibility. It reminds us that treating people as human beings is not simply something we do one-on-one, but … Continue reading Sunday ZOOM Service – Reflections on the Second Principle: Justice, Equity and Compassion in Human Relations.

Presenters Cynthia Kelley and Genevieve O’Malley Knight will lead a discussion on the different types of things learned during the past year and a half. If you have learned something new or unexpected that you’d like to share, please contact Cynthia or Genevieve by mid- September. Service Leader: Celia Ellison.

The autumn religious holidays in the Jewish tradition, Rosh Hashanah [New Year] and Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement], have been celebrated for centuries. Terry Perlin, Miami Professor Emeritus and Hopedale Emeritus, examines the mythic, and moral, roots of the religion’s communal life. It concludes with an evaluation of contemporary political and ethical issues in Israel, … Continue reading Sunday ZOOM Service: The Jewish New Year:  Myth and Reality. 

This year marks 20 years since the attacks of 9/11.  We will reflect on what was happening the day after the attacks:  how people responded in many different ways, and how individuals, and our nation as a whole, began on new paths of many kinds.  Join Diane Wright as we reflect on the ways we … Continue reading Sunday Zoom Service: Shock and Fright and Quiet Candlelight: 20 years later, remembering the day after 9/11.  

This is the first of our year-long examination of the principles outlined in the Unitarian Universalist Association Covenant. Service leader Doris Bergen will discuss the first principle, which asserts that UUs affirm and promote “The inherent worth and dignity of every person.” We will think both about the meaning of that statement and about the … Continue reading Sunday Zoom Service: Our First Principle.

Please join our annual service of gathering and rededication, a celebration of the beginning of a new church year. Normally our ritual requires bringing water and/or rocks from your summer travels; since our service will be Zoom only, just bring your memories and plan to tell us what they have meant to you. Presenter and … Continue reading Sunday Zoom Service: Rock and Water.

Every year the Unitarian Universalist Association holds an annual conference in which denominational business is voted upon by some 4,000 or so delegates. For a second pandemic year, the entire conference was held virtually via Zoom. Hopedale delegates, Libby Earle and Liz Woedl, will fill you in on the inspiring and challenging issues that were … Continue reading Sunday Zoom Service: Virtual GA.