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  • Emerged: Neo Paganism is based on what is assumed to be ancient, indigenous religions, but modern day Wicca is dated as beginning in 1959 and the current Neo-Paganism movement can be dated to the founding of the Church of All Worlds and Feraferia in 1967....
    Handout | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Hymn 78 in Singing the Living Tradition; words by Mark Belletini; musical arrangement by Grace Lewis McLauren.Summertime has turned the starwheel, autumn is upon us. Sweet the angling sun, sweet upon the air the smell of blue mist rising. Summertime has turned the starwheel, autumn is upon us.
    Handout | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Circle in red the beliefs that are commonly held among most Pagan sects. Circle in pencil beliefs held by some sects, though not universally. It is important to keep our lives balanced. Female qualities and male qualities should be balanced. Neither is more important than the other. They are both...
    Handout | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • The Catanna website published by Catresea Ann Canivan was a source for this story and offers deep information about Paganism. Come with me on a journey—a journey that is as old as time itself. Repeated so often, the earth knows the rhythm and follows it, like a cosmic dance. First steps of the...
    Story | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
    Tagged as: Paganism
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  • Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 4, Celtic Tree Art Art paper and other materials, such as pencils and color pencils, markers, and pastels Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Prepare work tables for participants to use the art materials you have...
    Activity | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 90 minutes Preparation for Activity If your congregation has a CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) chapter, contact that group....
    Activity | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 3 minutes Materials for Activity Religions Time Line (Workshop 1) Sticky notes and fine-point markers World map or globe Preparation for Activity Display the Religions Time Line. Create a sticky note saying "Paganism, Indigenous," one saying "Wicca, 1959," and another saying...
    Activity | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 3, Neo-Paganism and Wicca Fact Sheet Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 3 for all participants. Description of Activity Youth receive a fact sheet on Pagans to take home. Distribute Handout 3, Neo-Paganism and Wicca Fact Sheet. Review it...
    Activity | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity Share background about the Wiccan religion, in these words or your own: Gerald Gardner, an Englishman, is often credited as the father of the modern Wiccan religion....
    Activity | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, Pagan Beliefs? Pencils and red pens Newsprint with questions about Paganism generated in Opening) Preparation for Activity Copy the handout for all participants. Set red pens and black pens on work tables for youth to share....
    Activity | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 2 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED/battery-operated candle Taking It Home handout Optional: Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Download, adapt, and copy Taking It Home for all participants. Optional: Write the closing words on...
    Activity | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Materials for Activity Optional: Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook or copies of Handout 2, Lyrics - Chant for the Seasons Preparation for Activity Research possible clean-up opportunities to present to the group. Optional: Make this activity...
    Activity | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice, candle, lighter or LED/battery-operated candle Newsprint, markers, and tape Leader Resource 2, Paganism Background Preparation for Activity Read Leader Resource 2, Paganism Background so you will be comfortable presenting it. Post a blank...
    Activity | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Leader Resource 1, On the Altar Drawing paper and pencils, pens, and/or color markers Preparation for Activity Make and post a newsprint sign with this question: "What makes a good altar?" Place a few copies of Leader Resource 1, On the Altar, o...
    Activity | November 14, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • The first dictionary definition of "cult" is "a system of religious worship." In other words, by the first definition, all religions everywhere are cults. This is different, however, from the way the word is most commonly used today. The number of cult members worldwide changes radically based on...
    Leader Resource | November 14, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Abusers can be hard to identify because at first they can be completely charming. Skilled at gaining people's trust, they often seem approachable, honest, generous, and kind, as they ease into people's lives and hearts. Slowly, though, things start to go terribly wrong. The abusive behavior...
    Handout | November 14, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 75 minutes Materials for Activity One episode of the MTV program If You Really Knew Me Computer with Internet access, projector, and screen Handout 1, What Makes a Cult? Preparation for Activity Choose an episode of If You Really Knew Me, an MTV series about Challenge Day, a...
    Activity | November 14, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 15 minutes Description of Activity Participants consider what might make a cult attractive to a prospective member and how they might intervene if a friend became involved with a cult-like group. Engage participants to recall the reasons a cult might be attractive to someone which...
    Activity | November 14, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, What Makes a Cult? Optional: Cults/Religions poster the group created in the Welcoming and Entering activity Description of Activity Participants learn and discuss why some people might consider Unitarian Universalism to be a cult. Ask...
    Activity | November 14, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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  • Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED/battery-operated candle Taking It Home handout Optional: Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Download, adapt, and copy Taking It Home for each participant. Optional: Write the closing words on...
    Activity | November 14, 2013 | For High School | From Building Bridges
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