Readings: Words for Worship
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A Day!
by Naomi King
Responsive Readings
A Knock At The Door
by Ken Nye
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A Lamp in Every Corner
by Janeen K. Grohsmeyer
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A Litany of Wholeheartednes
by Dawn Skjei Cooley
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A Person Is a Puzzle
by Mark Mosher DeWolfe
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A Religion For Greatness
by Clarence Skinner
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A Time To Mourn: for the gulf oil spill
by Becky Post
Readings | Meditations | Variable
A Unison Affirmation
by Jay E. Abernathy, Jr.
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies | Variable
Acknowledgment of Limitations
by Maryell Cleary
Other Readings
Acknowledgment of Limitations
by Calvin O. Dame
Other Readings
Acknowledgment of Limitations
by Burton D. Carley
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All too often, we pace the geometries of our walled gardens
by John Millspaugh
Responsive Readings
And How Are the Children?
by Pat Hoertdoerfer
Readings | Children's Sabbath
Anyone's Ministry
by Gordon B. McKeeman
Readings | Meditation Manuals
At the start of the Religious Education year
by Ruth E. Gibson
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies
Be ours a religion...
by Theodore Parker
Readings | Prayers
Beatitudes for Earth Sunday
by Richard S. Gilbert
Responsive Readings | Spring | Earth Day
Blessing of Hurricane Katrina Convoy Participants: A Sending-Forth Ritual for Gulf Coast Volunteers
by Ali Woodworth
Other Readings
Children's Easter Story
by Heather Lynn Hanson
Other Readings | Spring | Easter
Christmas Eve
by Ken Nye
Readings | Winter | Christmas Eve / Christmas
Comfort Ye My People
by Barbara Rohde
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Dark and Light, Light and Dark
by Jacqui James
Readings | Winter | Martin Luther King Sunday
Easter and Ostara
by Adrianne Ross
Other Readings | Spring | Easter
Einstein on Time
by Ken Nye
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Enter with me that still place within, the center
by Linda J Hoddy
Other Readings | Winter | New Year's Day
Every Third Thursday
by Joanne Fortaine Crawford
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Expect Life!
by Elizabeth Tarbox
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For Palm Sunday
by Charles F. Flagg
Responsive Readings | Blessings | Spring | Palm Sunday
For religion to be significant
by Mark L. Belletini
Readings | Variable | Association Sunday
For the Flowers have the Gift of Language
by Reginald Zottoli
Readings | Spring | Flower Communion
For the gifts we have been given
by Thomas Rhodes
Offerings | Variable
Generosity of spirit—words for the offering
by Victoria Weinstein
Other Readings
Good Friday
by Elizabeth Tarbox
Readings | Spring | Good Friday
Gratitude Circle
by Jane E. Mauldin
Readings | Meditation Manuals
Green Sanctuary Kick-Off Responsive Reading
by Molly Housh
Responsive Readings | Variable
Hey Ain't That Good News!
by John Corrado
Responsive Readings
Hide-and-Seek with God
by Mary Ann Moore
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Higgins: a Drop With a Dream
by Christopher Buice
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How To Discuss The Truth
by Mark L. Belletini
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How To Write Your Own Affirmations/ Covenants/ Doxologies
by Erik Walker Wikstrom
Readings | Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies | Variable
How To Write Your Own Litanies
by Erik Walker Wikstrom
Readings | Litanies | Variable
How To Write Your Own Offering
by Erik Walker Wikstrom
Readings | Offerings | Variable
How To Write Your Own Responsive Readings
by Erik Walker Wikstrom
Readings | Responsive Readings | Variable
I am a Unitarian Universalist
by John Corrado
Responsive Readings
I pledge allegiance to the earth and all life
by Vern Barnet
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies | Spring | Earth Day
I pledge allegiance to the earth on which I stand,
by Vern Barnet
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies | Spring | Earth Day
If I Should Die (and I will someday)
by Ken Nye
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It's Not Easy Being A Unitarian Universalist
by Charles Magistro
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Know that Love Is True
by Kim Adami
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Let Me Die Laughing
by Mark Morrison-Reed
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Let us pause now to look inward
by Michael A. Schuler
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Litany for the Season
by Peter Friedrichs
Litanies | Prayers | Winter | Christmas Eve / Christmas
Litany of Comfort for Blue Christmas
by Debra Faulk
Litanies | Winter | Christmas Eve / Christmas
Litany of Spring
by Addae Ama Kraba
Responsive Readings
Living Your UUism
by Anonymous
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Looking For Love in All The Wrong Places
by David S. Blanchard
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Love In Tangible Form
by Susan Karlson
Offerings
Making Love
by Ken Nye
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Marginal Wisdom
by Leslie Takahashi Morris
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Mattering
by Mark Hicks
Readings | Variable | Association Sunday
May means Mother’s day
by Katie Lee Crane
Readings | Spring | Mother's Day
May our time together renew our hope
by Calvin O. Dame
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies
Meeting the Messiah
by Jeffrey B. Symynkywicz
Readings | Winter | Christmas Eve / Christmas
Mother's Day Proclamation
by Julia Ward Howe
Readings | Spring | Mother's Day
My Father's Things
by Ken Nye
Readings | Father's Day
New Members Words of Welcome
by Victoria Weinstein
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies | Spring
No One Is Empty-Handed
by Ma. Theresa Gustilo Gallardo
Offerings | Variable
Nurture This Precious Light
by Naomi King
Responsive Readings
O Spirit of life, let us resolve to move on with our lives
by David G. Sammons
Other Readings
Offering Call For A Community Seeking Change
by Naomi King
Offerings
Offering Call For Growing Our Diversity
by Naomi King
Offerings
Open Our Hearts With Love
by Naomi King
Responsive Readings
Praise the sun, the moon, the stars
by Kathy A. Huff
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies
Prayer for our Children
by Robert F. Kaufmann
Other Readings
Reading for four voices and unison response
by Sydney A. Morris
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies | Spring | Earth Day
Recognition of Volunteers: A Litany
by Jay Libby
Litanies
Religion in the Ribbons
by Ken Nye
Readings | Winter | Christmas Eve / Christmas
Reluctant Goodbyes
by Kaaren Solveig Anderson
Readings | Meditation Manuals
Responsive Reading by Parents and Youth
Responsive Readings | Spring | Coming of Age
Ritual for The Day of the Dead/All Souls
by Christine C. Robinson
Other Readings | Fall | All Souls Day / Dia De Los Muertos
Share the Wealth
by Roy Phillips
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Simply Cherish The Earth
by William F. Schulz
Responsive Readings
Some came here looking for solace.
by Mel Harkrader-Pine
Litanies
Some of us are struggling with sorrow or grief
by Jay Atkinson
Responsive Readings
Some people say that Jesus is the light of the world.
by Rebecca A. Edmiston-Lange
Litanies | Winter | Martin Luther King Sunday
Sometimes we do what is wrong.
by Linda Anderson
Other Readings
Special Collection for Partner Church Sunday
by Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council
Offerings
Spring
by Charles F. Flagg
Responsive Readings | Spring
Spring Surprise: Interactive story written for an Easter Service
by Kirsty Johnson
Other Readings | Spring | Easter
Testifying—a reading for five voices
by Mark Hicks
Readings | Plays | Variable | Association Sunday
The Fire Is Not About Money
by Kate Bortner
Offerings | Association Sunday
The Glove in the Subway
by Jane Ranney Rzepka
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The Happy Accident
by Carie J. Johnsen
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The Hardest Thing
by Lucas Hergert
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The Healing Cup: The Story of the Flaming Chalice
by Noreen Kimball
Other Readings
The Idiocy of Flight
by Jane Ranney Rzepka
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The Kindness of Lo Mein
by Kaaren Solveig Anderson
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The morning's offering
by Erik Walker Wikstrom
Offerings | Variable
The Offering As Hospitality
by Victoria Weinstein
Offerings
The Offering as Pastoral Ministry
by Victoria Weinstein
Offerings
The Offering is a sacrament of the free church
by Victoria Weinstein
Offerings
The Tomb Is Empty
by Carl Scovel
Other Readings | Spring | Easter
The Womb of Stars
by Joy Atkinson
Responsive Readings
They Say I Am Illegal
by Julia Hamilton
Responsive Readings
Thou who are the heart of being, we come together but often feel alone
by John H. Robinson, Jr.
Other Readings
Title Poems from 'Singing The Journey
by Jaco ten Hove
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To be human is to be aware of our separation
by Thomas Fritts
Other Readings
Truck Driver
by Gordon B. McKeeman
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Unitarian Confessional to the Ute Indians
by Nathan C. Walker
Readings | Fall | Thanksgiving
Unto that which is noblest in each of us we make appeal.
by Edward A. Frost
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies
Wake up O my Soul
by Ma. Theresa Gustilo Gallardo
Responsive Readings
We are all more human than otherwise.
by Richard S. Gilbert
Readings | Variable | Association Sunday
We are bogged down by the details of life.
by Richard F. Boeke
Other Readings
We are here because we are people of faith
by Kendyl R. Gibbons
Other Readings
We are not alone.
by Michael DeVernon Boblett
Litanies
We Are Not Guests
by Alicia Roxanne Forde
Other Readings
We are people of all ages who enter this space
by Carol Meyer
Responsive Readings | Opening Words
We Can Never Know
by Jay E. Abernathy, Jr.
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We Come To This Time And Place
by David C. Pohl
Responsive Readings
We covenant with one another and do bind ourselves together
by Michael W. Hennon
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies
We create a web of life.
by Sarah Lammert
Litanies
We gather here to seek unity of spirit
by John C. Morgan
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies
We Give Thanks for Need
by Claudia A. Ramisch
Offerings
We Pause This Hour
by Bruce Southworth
Responsive Readings
What Do Our Children Need on Sunday Morning?
by Lowell Brook
Readings | Children
What If Nobody Forgave?
by Barbara Marshman
Other Readings
What the Clamoring's For
by Tracey Robinson-Harris
Readings | Variable | Association Sunday
When Life Is Messy
by Richard S. Gilbert
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When We Seek Wisdom
by John A Buehrens
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Why Diversity?
by Leon Spencer
Readings | Variable | Association Sunday
Why should we intentionally work for diversity?
by Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley
Readings | Variable | Association Sunday
Why They Sing
by Carie J. Johnsen
Responsive Readings
With faith to face our challenges,
by Gary Kowalski
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies
Words for Offering
by Victoria Weinstein
Offerings
Words of Affirmation
by Lucas Hergert
Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies | Variable
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