Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Post blank newsprint. Description of Activity Participants identify positive and negative aspects of the day's virtue. Choose a volunteer to take notes on newsprint. Ask the group to define...

Description of Activity Participants examine the press for dishonesty. Invite the group to discuss a political or social issue that is important to them. It could be immigration or gay rights or racism....

From Hebrew scripture (New Revised Standard Version).1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a tim...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Research organizations in your area that provide assistance for addictions....

Materials for Activity "Bicycle Rack" newsprint sheet from Opening Description of Activity Youth discuss ethical challenges they have faced. If someone shared an experience in check-in or during any workshop activities that the group would like to explore further, do so now. This could be...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Participants' journals, and writing instruments Participants' clipboards with anklets (Workshop 1, Activity 3, Practice) Beads, and waterproof markers and/or other decorations Extra clipboards and string/hemp, and sciss...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Post two sheets of newsprint, one headed "Moderation - Up Side", the other headed "Moderation - Down Side." Post a third sheet headed "Moderation means... " and write these definitions:...

Immanuel Kant (1724 -1804) was a German philosopher. Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher. Moral system Consequentialism: An action is right if it produces best consequence Deontology: An action is right if it follows a moral rule Virtue Ethics: An action is right if it is what a...

Based on Aesop's "The Belly and the Other Members of the Body."Once upon a time, the various parts of the brain got together to discuss their contributions to the uniqueness of the human being....

Activity time: 20 minutes Preparation for Activity Prepare several scenarios that involve making a decision. Description of Activity Participants use knowledge of brain science to examine decision making. Invite participants to role play making decisions....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Ask your religious educator and/or youth advisor for a standard covenant youth groups use in your congregation. If one exists, ask if you may build on it with the youth in this group. If no...

The Katie Tyson Fund for Youth and Young Adult Ministries exists to kindle the sparks of leadership among Unitarian Universalist youth and young adults. The fund supports scholarships, grants, and youth and young adult projects, conferences, outreach, and more.

This program utilizes poems that are concerned with elements of the spiritual life: acute observation, conscious and continuous inquiry, the unveiling of reality, hope and hopelessness, the afterlife, and the tenderness of the human condition.

These are names by which Satan is called in the Bible: Abaddon — Hebrew for "destruction" King of the Bottomless Pit Accuser Lawless One Adversary Leviathan Angel of Light (a being Satan can transform into) Liar Angel of the bottomless pit Lucifer Antichrist Murderer Apollyon — Greek for...

Excerpted, with permission, from an article by Greg Damhorst posted February 15, 2011 on the Faith Line Protestants website. Read the full article online: "Feeding the Hungry: an Example that Compels us Toward Interfaith Work."Just over a year ago I was on a train home to visit my parents in the...

Description of Activity Youth participate in spreading the "good news," Unitarian Universalist style, by supporting One Laptop Per Child to provide computing capability to children in a developing nation. Tell youth that Evangelical Christians aim to spread what they call "good news"-that is, the...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Bibles - Hebrew and Christian scriptures Preparation for Activity Obtain Bibles for everyone in the group-preferably a New Standard Revised Version, but use multiple versions if necessary. Post blank newsprint....

Activity time: 90 minutes Materials for Activity Computer with Internet access and a large monitor or a digital projector and screen and (optional) extra audio speakers Optional: Bibles Preparation for Activity Test equipment. Choose an evangelical Christian worship service to view online or as a...

Materials for Activity Optional: Bibles Preparation for Activity Choose an Evangelical Christian congregation to visit. You might want to visit a traditional black church, such as an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) congregation, or a nondenominational Christian "megachurch" if you are near one.

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Optional: A Bible (Christian scripture), preferably the New Standard Revised Version Optional: Participants' drawings from Welcoming and Entering Preparation for Activity Recall big and small ways you have experienced...