To close out our Program Year, the Children’s Religious Education classes will be leading the Sunday Service on Mother’s Day, with a focus on gratitude.  What are we grateful for in our families, in our communities, and in our Hopedale Community? How do we best like to say and to hear “thank you”?  This multi-generational … Continue reading Sunday Service: Gratitude

Join Diane Wright as we reflect on the “give and take” of our connections with others, and the ways our own actions can be reflected back to us. Service Leader: Bethany Smith.

Let’s all share in creating a unique orchestral rendering of the (new) year. Our shared composition in four movements will celebrate the four seasons. A variety of instruments that everyone can play will allow us to give voice to the several sounds of winter, spring, summer, and fall. We’ll have plenty, but feel free to … Continue reading Sunday Service: Hopedale Symphony

Join us this Easter Sunday when the Rev. Dennis McCarty, a self-described “gentle atheist,” will discuss a doctrine which continues to influence American culture.  The Doctrine of Original Sin has been abandoned by liberal Christian theologians. Not only does it fail to reflect what science has taught us about human origins, it’s not even an accurate … Continue reading Sunday Service: The Myth of Original Sin

Poetry Fest!!!  “Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments…”  Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Come and share your favorite poem–limerick, haiku, or even a sonnet.  Perhaps you have written a poem or remember lines from a poem you learned as a youth–bring them all, we’d like to hear them. Service Leaders: Susan Thrasher and … Continue reading Sunday Service & Congregational Meeting

Reflections on Parenting Kahlil Gibran, in a famous poem about parenting, says, “You are the bows from which your children, as living arrows, are set forth.” Come join Diane Wright as we reflect on the experience of parenting, and what it means for all of us within the Hopedale Community. This service will also provide … Continue reading Sunday Service: Arrows Going Swift and Far

Emerson said “The happiest person is the one who learns from nature the lesson of worship”.  Join us at Hopedale as we ponder and share our own unique relationships with the natural world. Service Leader:  Drew Ruther

James Baldwin wrote that no one is white before coming to America.  Let us have what Eula Biss calls a “bumbling conversation” about racial privilege and its intersection with other kinds of oppression. This is a study question for this year identified by the UUA as focus of national consideration.  Service leader:  Patty Klingenberg RE:  Class … Continue reading Sunday service: Whiteness

Lynne and Chris Myers will share reflections on the human-nature connection as expressed by a range of investigators, including children, an astronaut, and a monk. Chris is Professor of Biology at Miami, and founding director of Miami’s Project Dragonfly. It offers highly successful global degree programs, exhibits, and learning media, and launched an award-winning PBS … Continue reading Sunday service: On Dreams and Dragonflies at the Onset of Spring

Jon Branstrator, Neil Danielson, Valerie Elliott, Celia Ellison and Jennifer Blue will share experiences and perspectives from their combined 294 years in various UU congregations from childhood to adulthood.  We also mark the 29th anniversary of the founding of this congregation. Service leader:  Celia Ellison. RE:  Class Day. Note:  Daylight Savings Time begins.