A hospital intensive care unit is challenging for everyone involved: the doctors, nurses, patients and family members. Terry Perlin, a long-time member of Hopedale and emeritus professor of Miami, will address the ethical challenges based on his 22 years of experience as a consultant on medical ethics, and focusing on actual cases. Service leader: Patty … Continue reading Sunday Service: Life and Death in the ICU
What do we most need to know? What truths we can hold dear and live by? This morning Denise Tracy will help us reflect on these questions. Service Leader: Susan Thrasher
Bring your favorite costume, ghost story and Halloween memory as we celebrate and honor the many trick-or-treaters who came before us. Although we may not summon real spirits, we’ll definitely conjure up some fond memories of Halloweens past. If you wish, bring a favorite treat that reminds you of past loved ones. This is an … Continue reading Sunday Service: Halloween Like a Child
Unitarian Universalists are responding with love and resistance to overt white supremacists in Charlottesville and across the country. This past April, May, and June, 682 of the 1,038 UU congregations– and 32 UU communities– held UU White Supremacy Teach-ins. Through public witness, education, and introspection, our faith is coming to understand that fighting white supremacy … Continue reading Sunday Service: White Supremacy Teach-In 2
On October 15, 1582, Pope Gregory XIII implemented the Gregorian Calendar. October 4 of that year was followed directly by October 15 to implement the new calendar system. The Gregorian Calendar has become the most widely used civil calendar system in the world. Come join Diane Wright to reflect on the ways human beings track … Continue reading Sunday Service: As Time Goes By: A Unitarian Take on the Gregorian Calendar
This illustrated presentation will briefly discuss some of the origins of a land conservation ethic in the United States, especially in the Midwest and Cincinnati area, and how a group of concerned Miami professors in the early 1990s banded together to establish the area’s first land trust. Re-named in 2001, the Three Valley Conservation Trust’s … Continue reading Sunday Service-Caring for the Land so the Land Will Care for Us: What You Should Know about the Three Valley Conservation Trust
Edna Southard, a member of Oxford City Council, will share with us how it came to be that she became politically active. She will also discuss some of the issues that are facing all of us and are being discussed in Council. There will be time for feedback and conversation after her presentation. Service leader: … Continue reading Sunday Service: The Journey to Political Involvement
Muriel Blaisdell and Cynthia Kelley will join us in this Sunday’s exploration of Mary Oliver’s poetry. Service leader Linda Amspaugh
William Carlos Williams, who worked as a doctor by day, and wrote poetry at night, wrote, “It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” On this 134th birthday of a distinctive American literary voice, come join Diane Wright and service leader … Continue reading Sunday Service: The Poetic Cure: Reflections on the Birthday of William Carlos Williams
This service, in celebration of Grandparents Day, will focus on traditional roles that grandparents’ have played in their grandchildren’s lives; recent trends in grandparents’ roles due to societal changes; and possible future trends in such involvement. Speaker is Doris Bergen. Service leader is Patty Klingenberg.
