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
Vanessa Rivas & Berenice Acevedo will join us to discuss “Commemorating dead loved ones: Día de Muertos”. Their presentation will provide a description of the holiday, its origin & use. They will analyze its practice and perspective in the culture, as well as its transnational spread across the world. Service Leader: Linda Amspaugh. Fall Congregational … Continue reading Día de Muertos
On October 21, 1904, Isabelle Eberhardt, a 27 year old woman from Switzerland, died in a flash flood in the desert in Algeria. She had been living in North Africa, and had taken a male, muslim name. We know about her life from her writings, and from the writings of people who encountered her. Come … Continue reading Haunted by Thoughts of a Sun-Drenched Elsewhere: Lessons from the Life of Isabelle Eberhardt
19th Century Unitarian Lessons from the Lives of Moncure Conway and Peter H. Clark. Tim Kraus, First Unitarian Church of Cincinnati. As Unitarian Universalists continue to address their legacy of white supremacy and racism, historical perspective is useful in order to better understand the issues. Both Moncure Conway and Peter H. Clark were 19th c. anti-racist … Continue reading Skin in the Game
Peter W. Williams, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, will join us again, this time to speak on the evangelical movement in America, providing some attempts at definition, historical roots, recent developments, and entanglements with contemporary society and politics. Service Leader: Patty Klingenberg
