Activity time: 7 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter, or LED/battery-operated candle Optional: Musical accompaniment for "I Would Be True," Hymn 559 in Hymns of the Spirit, the maroon Unitarian Universalist hymnal last published in 1958....

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Pocket folder, pen/pencil, and paper for each participant Name tags, single-use or durable Newsprint, markers, and tape Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity Using the Workshop-at-a-Glance as a guide, create and post the agenda on...

Sharon Welch was raised in a small farming community in West Texas, the daughter of two social gospel ministers. She writes of her parents: They lived lives of service but with no sense of guilt, duty, or sacrifice. They acknowledged defeat, but with no sense of fallenness or original sin. They...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Journals or notebooks, one for each participant Writing and drawing materials, such as pens, pencils, fine point color markers, and color pencils Preparation for Activity Set out writing and drawing materials where all can reach them. Write on...

Activity time: 15 minutes Preparation for Activity Review the two scenarios and select the one you will use. Description of Activity Share one of these two scenarios and lead a discussion using the questions in your chosen scenario....

Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Research your congregation's social justice projects that involve local community issues. Examples include fair housing, homelessness, environmental justice, and immigration. Choose a project that involves a significant...

Activity time: 2 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter, or LED/battery-operated candle Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Preparation for Activity Arrange the worship table or designated space. Description of...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Pocket folder, pen/pencil and paper for each participant Name tags, single-use or durable Newsprint, markers, and tape Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity Using the Workshop-at-a-Glance as a guide, create and post the agenda on...

Adapted from Workshop 12 of the Tapestry of Faith curriculum Building the World We Dream About by Dr. Mark A. Hicks....

Dr. Anthony Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. He serves as a trustee of Meadville Lombard Theological School. This article is abridged, with permission, from one published in Religious Humanism (Winter-Spring 1998)....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Self-sticking magnetic strips Unlined index cards Fine point markers or calligraphy pens Preparation for Activity Make sure each person has a surface suitable for writing. Set out supplies where all can reach them....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Journals or notebooks, one for each participant Writing and drawing materials, such as pens, pencils, fine point color markers, and color pencils Preparation for Activity Set out drawing materials where all can reach them. Write on newsprint, and...

Activity time: 15 minutes Preparation for Activity Read the scenario and facilitator notes in the Description of Activity. Prepare to present the scenario and facilitate the conversation that follows in such a way as to ensure the emotional and spiritual safety of people of color and/or...

Preparation for Activity Arrange for your minister, religious educator, a social action committee representative, and/or another congregational leader involved in congregational social justice projects to talk with the group about the social justice projects the congregation supports. Give guest...

Activity time: 3 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter, or LED/battery-operated candle Preparation for Activity Arrange the worship table or designated space. Practice the opening reading aloud. Description of Activity Share these words of...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Pocket folder, pen/pencil, and paper for each participant Name tags, single-use or durable Newsprint, markers, and tape Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity Using the Workshop-at-a-Glance as a guide, create and post the agenda on...

In A Different Voice In 1982, developmental psychologist Carol Gilligan published a groundbreaking book, In a Different Voice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,1982)....

In January 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr searched for a location for a settlement house in Chicago that would serve as a place for young women of means to live cooperatively with recent immigrants and migrants whose living and working conditions were horrible. Addams' idea was that...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Journals or notebooks, one for each participant Variety of writing and drawing tools, such as pens, pencils, fine point color markers, and color pencils Preparation for Activity Set out drawing materials where all can reach them....

Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity Share this scenario: Your congregation has an ongoing relationship with a local organization serving at-risk youth. The relationship includes advocacy financial support....