Join service leader Jennifer Blue and speaker Diane Wright on September 18, International Water Quality Monitoring Day. We will reflect on the lessons and importance of water, and the nature of our relationship to it and with it. Kids will have a chance to use a water-testing kit to look at qualities of water from … Continue reading The Lesson of Water
Today we welcome each other back from our summer break. Please bring a rock and/or water representing your summer adventures and explorations. Service leader: Susan Thrasher.
The guest speaker will be Mary Harris Jones. Join Mother Jones as she shares her experience as a union activist and speaks in the courtyard of Charlestown, West Virginia to the striking miners of Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. Ponder what message Mother Jones would give today. Service Leaders: Libby Earle and Russ VieBrooks.
This summer’s General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association was held in Columbus, Ohio, with the theme “Heartland: Where Faiths Connect”. Hopedale’s attendees will fill us in on the workshops, worship, and work to be done for interfaith cooperation and racial justice. Service Leader: Genevieve O’Malley Knight.
There’s been a lot of talk about islands lately, from John Donne’s quote (“No man is an island”) to the news about China’s island constructions in the South China Sea. On August 21,1959, Hawaii became a state. Join us as Diane Wright returns to Hopedale, and we consider the meaning of islands, as metaphor, as … Continue reading I Land on an Island
There have been many attempts throughout history to define and adopt “the simple life”. Sages, theologians, and laypersons alike have espoused philosophic ideals and practical wisdom ranging from life-transforming principles to everyday “life hacks”. Join Drew Ruther as he leads a discussion about how we all might strive to lead simpler lives in the 21st … Continue reading Simple Living
Pat Meade will give a brief history of how the commission came to be. He will talk about why Oxford needs a commission like this, and provide information on what the commission has done so far. He will present our responsibilities as citizens to be an active part of solutions that help establish justice and … Continue reading Oxford’s Police-Community Relations and Review Committee
Hopedale members Linda Amspaugh and Don Isaac have been longtime participants in the Oxford Farmers Market Uptown. Linda and Don will talk with us about their work, and help us think about our own gardening as spiritual practice. Service leader: Ann Fuehrer.
This is our second field trip of the summer. We will meet at the easement-protected property of longtime Hopedale friend Ann Geddes on Indian Creek Road in Oxford. Ann will give us a tour of the property and talk about the importance of land protection. She will host us for lunch from her garden/chickens, though … Continue reading Tour and Picnic at a Three Valley Conservation Trust Property
Diane Ruther-Vierling, Faith Community Outreach Coordinator for the local chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays), will join us to talk about the organization. Service leader: Ann Fuehrer.
