Cynthia Kelley, one of our Hopedale friends and a hospice social worker for twelve years, was able to translate the experience of losing her son to help others cope with the death of a loved one. Join us as she leads us in a meditation on her journey of survival, affirmation and caring. Service leader: … Continue reading Lessons Learned from Loss: An Easter Meditation
J. “Yaacov” Delaney will present information about the mission of the Ohio Justice and Policy Center in Cincinnati. The goal of the OJPC is to create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal-justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform, and cross-sector community education. OJPC leads in serving the needs of people directly affected by the criminal justice … Continue reading Ohio Justice and Policy Center
This I Believe is an organization that encourages people to write about and share the core beliefs that guide their daily lives. In our non-creedal faith community at Hopedale we have a wide range of beliefs. What do our children believe? Let’s turn a service over to the children and hear from them. This … Continue reading This I Believe: Children’s Edition
With our UU diversity of belief, language can become a bone of contention. Does it need to be that way? Rev. McCarty looks at the way a concept can develop form stark fact to symbolic poetry and seeks to look at language of faith as a unifying, rather than divisive force. Myth, allegory, and metaphor. … Continue reading Thoughts on Religious Language
March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day! Come join Diane Wright as she helps us consider all of our opportunities to plant the seeds of beautiful things in our lives. Service Leader: Pete Carels.
Dr. Roxanne Ornelas, Geography and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Miami University, is a Water Walker. She will share with us her experiences of walking with indigenous women, and others, to protect water, the sacred source of life. This is the first of three services this spring, planned by the Social Justice Committee, that … Continue reading We Walk for the Water
Come join us for a hymn sing! We will join our voices in several hymns from both of our hymnals. Until February 19 you may submit your own requests into a box near the hospitality table, and every effort will be made to include all of our favorites. Service leader: Jennifer Blue (with enormous help … Continue reading Sing-Along
Luminescence has been created as a distinctly UU holiday, to honor the many paths our faith offers for attaining spiritual fulfillment, and to celebrate the freedom our faith provides each individual in seeking their own personal truth. Come and celebrate our own religion’s wonderful, distinctive identity. Service Leader: Linda Amspaugh. Join us after the service … Continue reading Luminescence: A Unitarian Universalist Holiday
In the mid 1990s, scientists around the world began organizing an annual observance of “Darwin Day” on February 12, the birthday of Charles Darwin. According to the organizers, the mission of International Darwin Day is to inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity, scientific thinking, … Continue reading Light will be Thrown: Reflections on Darwin Day 2017
After five years on Oxford City Council and more than a year as mayor, Kate Rousmaniere will share insights, strategies, and surprises learned from working with those with whom she agrees, as well as those whose opinions are different from hers. Service Leader: Linda Amspaugh.
