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 as Leadership

• Leader's Guide (PDF, 156 pages)
• Handouts (PDF, 66 pages)
• The Reader for this module is the Handouts PDF document.
• Resource Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

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)
• Resource 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)
• Resource Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

Ministry with Youth

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

Unitarian Universalist History

• Leader's Guide (PDF, 37 pages)
• Participant Guide (PDF, 53 pages)

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)
• Resource Box Checklist (PDF, 1 page)

Worship for All Ages

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