On Thanksgiving, families gather to be together and to eat. On this Sunday before Thanksgiving, let’s gather as a Hopedale family to share themes of the holiday, including recipes, dishes and stories from our personal Thanksgiving traditions. For this intergenerational service, bring a special recipe (and any story that might accompany it), and maybe a … Continue reading Sunday Service: Thanksgiving with our Hopedale Family
Join Diane Wright as we think about Preparing for the Journey: Reflections on National Take a Hike Day. Thoreau said, “Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” November 17 is “National Take a Hike Day.” Come join Diane Wright as we consider the importance of venturing out … Continue reading Sunday Service: Preparing for the Journey
Our UU Principles point us towards universal responsibility for the well-being of all members of our community. Food insecurity is one indicator of the struggles that the most vulnerable among us face on a daily basis. Ann Fuehrer, Consulting Executive Director of TOPSS, Talawanda Oxford Panty and Social Services, will update us on the organization’s … Continue reading Sunday Service: A Celebration for Good
Matthew Smith joins us to talk about the history of religion, ethnicity, and immigration in early Cincinnati. He will show the evolution of the city’s cultural landscape and the social organization of organized religion. Service Leader: Linda Amspaugh. RE: Class Day.
Every week at Hopedale, we are reminded that we are certified as a Welcoming Congregation. The Unitarian Universalist Association’s Welcoming Congregation Program was launched in 1989 to help us learn how to undo homophobia – and later, transphobia – in our hearts and minds, our congregations, and our communities. Hopedale’s Religious Education Co-ordinator, Genevieve O’Malley … Continue reading Sunday Service: Welcoming Congregation
Joe Wegwert helps us examine the contradictions within and between the 7 Principles and explores how the demographics and identities of UUs complicate – and sometimes create barriers to – living the 7 Principles most powerfully and authentically. In this cultural and historical moment we are witness to the erosion of our most cherished values: … Continue reading Sunday Service: Caught in the “Interdependent Web” of the 7 Principles: Unitarian Universalism in the Age of Trump.
Music is an important part of our worship services, and today we will especially celebrate it. Service Leader: Jennifer Blue. Fall Congregational meeting will immediately follow the Sunday Service.
Join us as we explore the importance, and challenges, of discussion our plans for end of life. In the town of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, community leaders made it their goal to inspire and support the whole community to have early conversations about end of life issues. Join Diane Wright and Service Leader, Susan Thrasher, as we … Continue reading Sunday Service: Learning from LaCrosse, Wisconsin:Building Our Vocabulary for Discussions of End of Life
Carla Blackmar-Rice joins us to help us consider whether eco-friendly lifestyle choices are a distraction from the large-scale systems changes we need in order to sustain human life on earth and how we should use our time and energy in the face of climate and ecological breakdown. Too often we are immobilized by the immensity … Continue reading Sunday Service: Taking Acton for a Livable Future
At its Nashville premier, Ken Burns described his new documentary as an eight-year “labor of love” drawing on more than 100,000 photographs, 3,000 movies, 1,000 home movies, and 300 hours of recorded music. It could only have been done, he said, by already having made all his previous films about American experience. Country Music offers … Continue reading Sunday Service: A Guide to Ken Burns’ Country Music for Unitarian Universalists
