Come celebrate the winter solstice. This will be a very Celtic inter generational service looking at how many cultures and faiths explored the light and the dark.  The children (and celebratory adults) will brighten your day while they chase away the darkness with drumming. Bring your favorite percussion instruments to join the fun.   Service Leaders:  … Continued

This is the time of year when wishes (for a bike, a doll, a diamond ring, world peace) are pervasive in human society. Service leader, Doris Bergen, will help us explore the role that wishes play in our lives, their possible purposes, and their effects on human realities, accomplishments, fears, and hopes will be explored.  Monthly … Continued

This morning, Don Erikson will talk about his experiment leading Buddhist-Christian services at the Community Church of North Orange where he was the settled minister and the First Unitarian Church of Petersham, Mass where he served as supply minister for 3 years. Don will discuss his spiritual journey that birthed the idea, a journey that … Continued

World Computer Literacy Day was started in India on December 2, 2001, to encourage the development of computer skills, especially among children and women.  A lot has happened since 2001. Come join Diane Wright as we consider the evolution of technology and its connection to our core principles. Service Leader:  Linda Amspaugh.

Spouses Patrick O’Malley and Genevieve O’Malley Knight (Co-ordinator of Religious Education) The current political climate is often described as highly divisive.  We seem to be experiencing polarization of our media and discourse.  How do we have highly-charged, important conversations with people we love?  How do we disagree and stay in community and in covenant?  Hopedale members … Continued

That’s the Thanks I Give.” On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, come join Diane Wright for an intergenerational service where we consider the many ways we can (and do) give thanks.  Be ready for fun! Service leader: Patty Klingenberg (Intergenerational Thanksgiving Service)

Historian Matthew Smith recently secured a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ “Dialogues on the Experience of War” initiative. The project aims to build public programming and curricula for student veterans at Miami University regional campuses. It focuses on a team-taught seminar, “From War Zone to Home,” engaging student veterans and non-veteran students … Continued

Dr Migwe Kimemia, Program Director of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Dayton office will be speaking at Hopedale on the Welcome Dayton Plan: My Reflections on Extending Hospitality to Refugees in Dayton. The Welcome Dayton Plan is a community-driven initiative designed to transform Dayton into an immigrant-friendly city. The Dayton City Commission passed the … Continued

Vanessa Rivas & Berenice Acevedo will join us to discuss “Commemorating dead loved ones: Día de Muertos”. Their presentation will provide a description of the holiday, its origin & use. They will analyze its practice and perspective in the culture, as well as its transnational spread  across the world. Service Leader:  Linda Amspaugh.  Fall Congregational … Continued

On October 21, 1904, Isabelle Eberhardt, a 27 year old woman from Switzerland, died in a flash flood in the desert in Algeria.  She had been living in North Africa, and had taken a male, muslim name. We know about her life from her writings, and from the writings of people who encountered her.  Come … Continued