Tonya Buchanan is Executive Director of Butler County Parachute, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). Parachute is a nonprofit agency dedicated to providing trained volunteers to work with children in the Juvenile Court system due to abuse, abandonment, or neglect. Last year nearly 3,000 Butler County children were identified as victims of abuse or neglect. Volunteers … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Casa”
March 10 is the Lutheran Feast Day of Sojourner Truth, the woman who was born Isabella Bomfree, a slave in Dutch-speaking Ulster County, New York in 1797. After escaping to freedom in 1827 Truth became a charismatic speaker, traveling the country orating for the abolition of slavery and advocating the rights of women. Join Diane … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Going Home Like a Shooting Star: The Feast Day of Sojourner Truth”
Join Kathleen Carels and others from our community who will say a few words about their creative process and share examples of things designed and created by them. Our worship space will be filled with the creative spirits of many among us. Service Leaders: Kathleen Carels. Children’s RE: Class Day during the service After the … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Visual Arts as a Spiritual Practice”
February 25 is the Episcopal Feast Day of the Missionary John Roberts. Roberts was born in England and made his way to the Bahamas, and then to Wyoming, where he worked with the Arapahoe and the Shoshone tribes for 66 years. Join Diane Wright as we consider the different lenses through which we can view … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Considering the Legacy of John Roberts”
As the earth sleeps in winter dormancy, it has traditionally been a time for adjusting life’s balance whether with fasting (Lent, Ramadan) or spring cleaning. What do we need to change? What are we putting off? What can be let go? What do we need to learn? We come together in community to share these … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Marie Kondo Revisited”
When people think about “sex” they could be thinking nearly anything, from the sublime to the biological to the harmful. Join Darrel Davis and Jennifer Blue, both trained to teach sexuality education to middle schoolers, as they talk about the circles of sexuality as defined in the Our Whole Lives curriculum. Service Leaders and Presenters: … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Circles of Sexuality”
UUs celebrate and/or recognize several religious holidays from other faith traditions. On this Sunday, February 4, 2024, we will celebrate Luminescence, which represents the light we generate as members of the Unitarian Universalist faith. Service Leaders and Presenters: Linda Amspaugh and Kathleen Carels. Children’s RE: Intergenerational Service
Each Sunday members of our community step forward to the microphone to share with us an event from their particular lives in that past week. For some of us this is the most powerful part of our hour that knits us together as Hopedalians. What are the sources that sustain the speakers and kindle the … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Beyond Joys & Concerns”
Hopedale member Darrel Davis will share his story about searching for faith, finding religion, and deciding community. His journey spans his youthful days in Belize and continues through to Hopedale here in Oxford. Service Leader and Presenter: Darrel Davis. Children’s RE: Class Day during the service. POTLUCK following the service.
The proclamation of World Logic Day was proposed to the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Executive Board in the middle of 2019, and in November of 2019, the 40th General Congress proclaimed January 14 to be World Logic Day. Join Diane Wright as we look at this newly recognized day. The date … Continue reading Sunday Service: “The Syntax of Things on World Logic Day”
