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
Guest Unitarian Universalist minister, Denise Tracy, from Illinois, will be speaking on “Beloved Community” – How do we create a world where all are welcomed and loved? Service Leader: Susan Thrasher. Re: Class day
Let us all share in creating a unique orchestral recognition of the new year just beginning. Our shared composition in four movements will celebrate the four seasons awaiting us. A variety of instruments that everyone can play will allow us to give voice to the several sounds of winter, spring, summer, and fall. As with … Continue reading Sunday Service: Hopedale Symphony
SERVICE CANCELED TODAY DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER.
A new year means resolutions and new changes in front of us, but how do you prioritize what is worth your time and energy? How do you balance work, life, self, family, friends, and passions with a finite amount of daily energy and motivation? Bethany Smith will be speaking and visually demonstrating how we use … Continue reading Sunday Service: New Year, New Outlook
“One thing I believe profoundly: We make our own history. The course of history is directed by the choices we make and our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people.” Eleanor Roosevelt, 1962 As Unitarian Universalists looking back on 2018, what are our ideas, beliefs, values and dreams? What … Continue reading Sunday Service: Circle Worship
Join us as we celebrate Christmas with songs, readings, and more songs. This is an intergenerational service. Service Leaders: Genevieve O’Malley Knight and Jennifer Blue.
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: … Continue reading Sunday Service: Chase Away the Dark.
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 … Continue reading Sunday Service: Wishes and Realities
