ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: A Spiritual Moment in Art 10 Activity 2: Your Own Commandments 17 Activity 3: Story and Discussion – Two Monks 10 Activity 4: Ethics Play 15 Faith in Action: Changing Rules 30 Closing 3 Alternate Activity 1: Life and Death Role-Plays 30 Alternate Activity 2:...

As a single, unified thing there exists in us both life and death, waking and sleeping, youth and old age, because the former things having changed are now the latter, and when those latter things change, they become the former. — Heraclitus IN TODAY’S SESSION… We found a clock and a live...

ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: Conundrum Corner 5 Activity 2: Story and Discussion – The Brothers 5 Activity 3: Creating Right/Wrong Stories 20 Activity 4: A Spiritual Moment in Meditation 7 Activity 5: Creating Gods for Today 15 Faith in Action: You in the Other 20 Closing 5 Alternate...

The spiritual journey is the process of learning to know oneself and becoming self-aware. We learn to love ourselves as the sacred beings that we are, and discover in that love that we are connected to all that exists; thus we develop compassion and strength. — Elisa Davy Pearmain IN TODAY'S...

ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: The Youth and the Guru – A Play 17 Activity 2: A Spiritual Moment in Music 10 Activity 3: Putting Your Advisors in Order 10 Activity 4: Stories and Discussion – Hide-and-Go-Seek and Know Yourself 14 Faith in Action: Personal Sole Search 10 Closing 3...

[T]he making of justice does not define our faith. Rather, our faith calls us to work for justice. — Rev. William G. Sinkford IN TODAY’S SESSION… We heard about some of Jesus’ ideas about right and wrong, and we talked about UU social action projects. We shared our beliefs by moving between...

ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: Story and Discussion – Jesus and the Sheep 10 Activity 2: Conundrum Corner – Speaking of UUs and Social Justice 10 Activity 3: Finding Social Justice in Music 10 Activity 4: Ethics Play 15 Activity 5: Wall-to-Wall Questions 10 Faith in Action: Magazine...

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. — Buddha IN TODAY’S SESSION…We heard the story of Augusta Jane Chapin and her frontier ministry. We talked about the ideas of universal salvation and of being saved. We wondered which animals we would have saved if we had had a choice at...

ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: Playing Noah, Playing God 12 Activity 2: Speaking of Universal Salvation 10 Activity 3: Story and Discussion – Augusta Jane Chapin's Call to Ministry 15 Activity 4: Saving Other People 15 Faith in Action: Saving Animals Closing 3 Alternate Activity 1: Ethics...

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves. — Peter McWilliams IN TODAY’S SESSION… We talked about the kinds of punishments some early Unitarians faced because they believed in one God instead of the trinity. We heard the stories of James Luther Adams and James Reeb. We said that all decisions and...

ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: Conundrum Corner 7 Activity 2: Story and Discussion – Two Men Named James 15 Activity 3: Matching Punishments and Wrong Acts 20 Activity 4: Discussion – Getting Rid of Guilt 10 Faith in Action: Speaking with a Visitor 20 Closing 3 Alternate Activity 1:...

Instructions: On the left is a list of holidays that many people celebrate. On the right is a list of the UU Sources. On the line next to each holiday, write the letter of the Source that has the most to do with the holiday. You can put more than one letter per line if you like. If you think no...

My Church Believes in Civil Rights for All — Bumper sticker produced by the Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church in Portland, Maine, during a state referendum about the rights of sexual minorities IN TODAY’S SESSION… We performed a play about some UU youth meeting some bullies. We talked...

ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: The UUs and the Bullies – A Play 15 Activity 2: The Congregation's Parking Lot 17 Activity 3: Story and Discussion – Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom 10 Activity 4: Elevator Speeches 15 Faith in Action: Making UU Bumper Stickers 20 Closing 3 Alternate Activity...

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. — David Hume IN TODAY’S SESSION…We had a competition to see which groups could come up with the most virtue and sin words. We heard the story of “Amazing...

ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: Word List Competition 10 Activity 2: Meeting the Theme Song 15 Activity 3: Story and Discussion – When No One Is Looking 10 Activity 4: The Golden Rule 7 Activity 5: Wall-to-Wall Questions 8 Faith in Action: A Taste of Ethics 20 Closing 3 Alternate Activity...

Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity Ask your group to create a round-robin story featuring ways that small sins or wrongdoings that people commit mess up sixth-grade lives. If your group is large, you might want to divide it and create two stories, with one leader assisting each group.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson IN TODAY'S SESSION... We made up a group story about an awful day. We talked about whether we could have a day with just good acts and no wrongdoing—or the reverse. We tried to imagine what pure virtue and pure sin...

ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 10 Activity 1: An Awful Day – Round-Robin Story 10 Activity 2: Drawing Pure Virtue and Sin 15 Activity 3: Story and Discussion – Heaven and Hell 12 Activity 4: Ethics Play 15 Faith in Action: Group Strength Applied 30 Closing 3 Alternate Activity 1: Free Will by Age 15...