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"Share the Gift of Spirit" Dear UU Pen Pal, _______________________ My favorite song to sing is... My favorite game to play is... My favorite color is... I believe... I care about... . your UU Pen Pal, __________________________...

Read over all the questions. Ask yourselves: What do we need to learn? Who could teach us? Then go find the people who can help. Write down the names of all the people who help the scavenger hunt by giving you information: How old is our congregation? ___________________________ How old is the...

Please complete and return to a program leader. My favorite part of Amazing Grace: Exploring Right and Wrong was... My least favorite part of Amazing Grace: Exploring Right and Wrong was... I wish we had more time to... Something that would have made this program better is... When I started the...

Though their numbers were modest compared to other denominations, the Unitarians and the Universalists were each well represented at the Parliament....

The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition took place in the midst of a time of radical cultural and societal change in the United States....

Excerpted from "Of Madmen and Martyrs: A Unitarian Take on Knoxville," a blog post by Sara Robinson published July 28, 2008 on the Orcinus website. Used with permission. We are an odd group, we Unitarians. Conventional wisdom says that we're soft in all the places our society values toughness....

Excerpted from "Love and Power: The Universalist Dilemma" by the Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt, first presented as the John Murray Distinguished Lecture at the UUA General Assembly in Boston, June 2003. Used with permission....

On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act, the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the...

The inherent worth and dignity of every person Justice, equity and compassion in human relations Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations A free and responsible search for truth and meaning The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process...

Mary Livermore, in addresses to the Women's Centenary Aid Society and the mass meeting of the Centennial Assembly of Universalists in Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1870 said: I long for the women of our church to come up to their birthright, to take their places....

1. Greeley Forges a Strong Presidency In 1961 the first General Assembly elects the Rev. Dr. Dana McLean Greeley, last president of the American Unitarian Association, to be the first president of the new UUA. Charismatic and deeply engaged in public issues, Greeley raised visibility, membership,...

Christian: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Hindu: Do naught to others which would cause you pain if done to you. Buddhist: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. Jewish: What thou thyself hatest, do to no man....

English translation of Origen's De Principiis, Book I, Chapter 6.3, "On the End of Consummation" from Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., The Ante-Nicean Fathers Translations of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, Vol, 4 (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1994)....

Psalm 65: A Psalm of David. A Song. (1)Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion; and to you shall vows be performed, (2)O you who answer prayer! To you all flesh shall come. (3)When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us, you forgive our transgressions....

Match the sin or virtue with its definition. Write on the index card the letter below that matches the sin or virtue it describes. Sins A. Laziness B. Trying to get everything for yourself C. Being jealous D. Anger E. Uncontrolled desire for something F. Too much eating or drinking G....

The words "Great Over-Soul and Inter-Heart" were written by Mary Safford (1895) and edited by Eugene B. Navias to be sung to the tune Duke Street L.M., Hymn 35 in Singing the Living Tradition. Ministers of the Iowa Sisterhood Mary Augusta Safford Eleanor Gordon Florence Buck Mary Collson Caroline...

These readings accompany Leader Resource 2, From Antitrinitarian to Unitarian. SECTION 1: Arius's Letter to Eusebius (319 C.E.) But what is it that we say and believe, and that we have taught and teach?...

From Eugene B. Navias, Singing Our History (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 1975). The lyrics of "The Almighty Love" were written by Theodore Parker (1810-1860). In 1841, early in his ministry, Parker preached a controversial sermon, "The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity."...

Conrad Wright writes, in Congregational Polity: A Historical Survey of Unitarian and Universalist Practice, that in the Unitarian Universalist tradition of congregational polity, "it is left to the individual to decide whether he or she belongs within the covenant of a particular local religious...