Renaissance Module Resources

Note: All Renaissance Module Evaluations are accessible online and can be accessed through the left-side navigation bar: Leader Evaluation Form, Leader in Training Evaluation Form, and Participant Evaluation Form.

The tri-fold, Renaissance Program brochure (PDF), can be used by sponsoring groups to promote the Renaissance program in their districts:

The Personal Module Record (Word) (PDF) allows participants to keep track of the modules they have taken (participants may keep this).

The following resources are available for coordinating a Renaissance Module.

Administration of Religious Education Programs

• Note: This module is currently being revised and will be online soon. To minimize confusion between the old module and the new one, we have removed the old Administration resources. You may contact renaissance@uua.org if you have questions.

Adult Faith Development and Programming

• Leader's Guide (PDF, 33 pages)
• The Reader is Reframing Hope: Vital Ministry in a New Generation by Carol-Howard Merritt, published by the Alban Institute, 2010.
• Handouts (PDF, 36 pages)
• Display Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

Curriculum Planning

• Leader's Guide (PDF, 29 pages)
• The Reader is Fashion Me a People by Maria Harris, published by Westminster John Knox Press. 1989.
• Guide to Fashion Me a People (PDF, 8 Pages)
• Handouts (PDF, 54 pages)
• Display Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

Ministry with Youth

• Leader's Guide (PDF, 198 pages)
• Reader (PDF, 112 pages)
• Handouts (PDF, 46 pages)
• Display Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

Multicultural Religious Education

• Leader's Guide (PDF, 44 pages)
• The Reader is What If All the Kids are White? by Louise Derman-Sparks, published by Teachers College Press, 2006.
• Handouts (PDF, 17 pages)
• Display Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

Philosophy of Religious Education

• Leader's Guide (PDF, 59 pages)
• Leader Resources (PDF, 12 pages)
• The Reader is Essex Conversations, a Skinner House publication.
• The Guide to the Reader (PDF, 2 pages) prioritizes those essays which are most essential to the module and also indicates how the essays correlate with the module sessions.
• Handouts (PDF, 45 pages)
• Display Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

Teacher Development

• Leader's Guide (PDF, 71 pages)
• The Readers are The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer, published by Jossey-Bass, and this extensive Readings Packet (PDF, 134 pages).
  Both are well integrated into the module, as detailed by this Guide to the Reader (PDF, 3 pages) which correlates the chapters of the Palmer book and the materials from the readings packet with the module sessions in which they are used.
• Handouts (PDF, 4 pages)
• Display Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

Unitarian Universalist History

• Leader's Guide (PDF, 31 pages)
• The Reader is David Bumbaugh's Unitarian Universalism: A Narrative History, published by Meadville Lombard Press. 2001.
• Handouts (PDF, 33 pages)
• Display Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

Unitarian Universalist Identity

• Leader's Guide (PDF, 50 pages)
• The Reader is The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide, Fifth Edition, edited by Peter Morales and published by Skinner House. 2012.
• Handouts (PDF, 28 pages)
• Display Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

Worship for All Ages

• Note: This module is currently being revised and will be online soon. You may contact renaissance @ uua.org if you have questions.
• Leader's Guide (PDF, 45 pages)
• Reader (PDF, 138 pages)
• Handouts (PDF, 4 pages)
• Display Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)