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Sunday Service: Circle Worship

“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

Christmas Eve Service at 7:00 pm

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.

Sunday Service: Chase Away the Dark. 

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. 

Arguing in Love  

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 Get

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)

A Classroom Odyssey? Exploring the Humanities with Student Vets

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

Welcome Dayton Plan

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