Join us this Easter Sunday when the Rev. Dennis McCarty, a self-described “gentle atheist,” will discuss a doctrine which continues to influence American culture.  The Doctrine of Original Sin has been abandoned by liberal Christian theologians. Not only does it fail to reflect what science has taught us about human origins, it’s not even an accurate … Continue reading Sunday Service: The Myth of Original Sin

Poetry Fest!!!  “Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments…”  Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Come and share your favorite poem–limerick, haiku, or even a sonnet.  Perhaps you have written a poem or remember lines from a poem you learned as a youth–bring them all, we’d like to hear them. Service Leaders: Susan Thrasher and … Continue reading Sunday Service & Congregational Meeting

Reflections on Parenting Kahlil Gibran, in a famous poem about parenting, says, “You are the bows from which your children, as living arrows, are set forth.” Come join Diane Wright as we reflect on the experience of parenting, and what it means for all of us within the Hopedale Community. This service will also provide … Continue reading Sunday Service: Arrows Going Swift and Far

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