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.

We’ve all heard the song, but is there something to it?  Join Diane Wright as we celebrate the third day of the third month by speculating on all the meanings of this special number. Service leader: Pete Carels. This is an intergenerational service.

We are moving into a new year, and new beginnings are always a good time to consider how we are doing with Forgiveness.  What does forgiveness mean in your life? Come join Diane Wright and Drew Ruther as we reflect on what it means to forgive. Service leader:  Peggy Branstrator. RE: Class day.

A Unitarian Universalist Holiday Luminescence has been created as a distinctly UU holiday, to honor the many paths our faith offers for attaining spiritual fulfilment and to celebrate the freedom our faith provides each individual in seeking their own personal truth. Today we celebrate our own religion’s wonderful, distinctive identity. Service leaders: Linda Amspaugh and … Continue reading Sunday Service: Luminescence

Here’s something we all can do, individually or together with one or more others, to add our special spice to the mixture that is uniquely Hopedale. We’ll share our special gifts of talent even as we share our resources in pledging to fill our Hopedale coffers for another year of successful operations.  Join us from … Continue reading Hopedale’s Got Talent

Many religious doctrines value compassion. Feelings of compassion and empathy can motivate us to engage in acts of generosity and charity. We often think of showing compassion to others, but what happens when we extend compassion to ourselves? What happens when we do not? Join us as Terri Messman-Moore, Professor of Psychology and Hopedale member, … Continue reading Sunday Service: Self care as spiritual practice.

Alexander Zomchek, Apiculturist at Miami’s Ecology Research Center, will join us to discuss how honey bees and humanity have a long history which has turned codependent. Alex will explore some of the elements impacting honey bees, our food pyramid, our personal health, and ultimately our global health care system. Alex will share some of his … Continue reading Sunday Service: Honey bees and Humanity