“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
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 … Continue reading Sunday Service: Christmas With New Eyes
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 … Continue reading Arguing in Love
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 … Continue reading A Classroom Odyssey? Exploring the Humanities with Student Vets
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 … Continue reading Welcome Dayton Plan
