To create a soul mask: 1. Make an outline of your head on heavy card stock. You can do this by placing the card stock on a table, pressing your face down on it, and drawing an outline around your head with a pencil. Or, ask a friend to draw around your head. 2. Use scissors to cut the mask out in...

To the Kid for the Day: You have two jobs. The first is getting your group excited about hearing today's Big Question. The second is announcing the question. 1. Say to the group, "Give me a drum roll!" Then wait for a minute while the drum roll builds....

A speaker in the Bible says to God: "Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel." This is verse 15 from Chapter 45 in the Book of Isaiah. But the Bible is not the only place people talk about God hiding. Stories from different times and cultures tell of the same thing....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Recorded music and player Long piece of mural paper and tape Paints, paintbrushes, containers for water and paints and clean-up supplies Newspaper or tarps to protect floor Optional: Color pastels, thick markers or other media Optional: Smocks or o...

Activity time: 5 minutes Description of Activity Ask the group to respond to two quotes from Rabbi Harold S. Kushner. Say that he is a Jewish rabbi in the Conservative (moderately traditional) movement and a popular author. His books include When Bad Things Happen to Good People, When All You've...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Optional: Newsprint, markers and tape Preparation for Activity Optional: Write the challenge question on newsprint, and post. Description of Activity Challenge questions guide a deeper inquiry for especially thoughtful individuals and groups....

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Copy(ies) of Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Optional: A recording of the song and a music player Preparation for Activity Decide how best to present the song "Voice Still and Small," Hymn 391 in Singing the Living...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Bag or box containing participants' Big Questions notebooks (see Session 1, Alternate Activity 1, Notable Thoughts) Blank notebooks for new participants Pencils or pens Masking tape Preparation for Activity Retrieve participants' Big Questions...

Activity time: 17 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, Making Soul Masks Heavy, plain 11"x14" card stock or paper plates Scissors (including left-handed scissors) Fine-point color markers Optional: Single hole-puncher and string Optional: Long wooden craft sticks Preparation for Activity Pla...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Microphone(s), video camera(s) and tripod(s), real or simulated For studio set Backdrop made in Session 1 Painter's tape or masking tape Leader Resource 2, WCUU Script - Soul Talk Leader Resource 3, Reporter Stories Paper for On-Air People's name...

Activity time: 8 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 1, Soul Statements Preparation for Activity Familiarize yourself with Leader Resource 1 and add other statements to reflect your congregation if you wish. Description of Activity Explain that different people and different religions...

Music for Souls Unitarian Universalist Association. Singing the Journey: A Supplement to Singing the Living Tradition. Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2005. This hymnbook supplement includes "There's a River Flowin' in My Soul" as Hymn 1007 Unitarian Universalist Association....

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. — Chinese proverb Big...

Use these descriptions to prepare youth to role-play a prominent historical Unitarian Universalist on the WCUU advice panel (Activity 3). Susan B. Anthony You were a famous Unitarian who was born in 1820 and died in 1906. You fought hard for women's rights—especially the right to vote. You never...

You are in the audience at a WCUU panel discussion about how to decide what to do with your life. When the Anchor invites questions, ask anything you want. Use one of these, if nobody else has yet asked it, or make up your own. I am just a sixth grader....

UU Parent You are a UU Parent on a WCUU panel helping young people decide what to do with their lives. Here are some ideas you may base your answers on. You can think of other ideas yourself. Know who you are and what you want. Make your family proud of you....

To the Anchor: Today's WCUU program features a guest panel of informed Unitarian Universalists answering questions from UU youth about what to do with their lives. Your job is to follow the script, read your part, and keep things moving. When the broadcast begins, you are facing the UU panelists.

Parents A feeling deep inside you Your teachers Laws Money you get paid Friends Your happiness The government Schools Unitarian Universalism Your doctors Other peoples' happiness Love Status in society The needs of the world...

To the Kid for the Day: You have two jobs. The first is getting your group excited about hearing today's Big Question. The second is announcing the question. 1. Say to the group, "Give me a drum roll!" Then wait for a minute while the drum roll builds....

Based on a wisdom tale of Japanese origin. Once upon a time, there was a stonecutter. He spent his life cutting up rocks for use in this and that and the other. He liked his work. He was a happy man. At least he thought he was, until one day he was cutting stone for the house of a rich family.