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Attitudes toward older people have varied—and continue to vary—across time and cultures. In some times and places, elders have enjoyed positive acceptance and embrace; in others, the reception has been negative. Traditional Near Eastern and Asian cultures revered their elders. The ancient Greeks...

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During budgeting and pledging time, there are often questions about the UUA Annual Program Fund (APF). Here are some talking points!

Ministerial compensation is quite confusing. What do congregations and clergy need to know about clergy taxes?

These earthquake lights were observed minutes before the 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan, China in 2008. Photo is from a video posted on YouTube.

The photograph of ball lightning is reproduced from the HypeScience website. The 1886 illustration of ball lightning, “Globe of Fire Descending into a Room,” is public domain from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

From the Climate Kids pages of the website of the Southeast Regional Climate Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; used with permission.

Excerpts from Gil Bailie’s discussion of the Miracle of Fish and Loaves, in Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads (New York: Crossroad, 1995). …Jesus seems to have found the popular appetite for miracles exasperating. At times he fled from crowds looking for a miracle worker, and he...

“The Story of the Loaves and the Fishes,” adapted by Patti Walzer, M.Ed. Narrator: Wherever Jesus went, thousands of followers would come to hear him teach and to be healed of sickness. He and his disciples decided to escape awhile so that they could rest together undisturbed by the crowds of...

From Gathering for Gardner, a conference, foundation, and community of people connected to Martin Gardner, 1914-2010, who popularized the flexagon. Permission pending. Printing This Handout Download a high-resolution copy of this Handout (PDF) for printing.

Melting Ice Experiment ...

Tree and pinecone illustrations show Fibonacci patterns in nature, courtesy of the Fractal Foundation.

Photo credit: Robert Hurt, IPAC; Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF. From the website of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a facility of the National Science Foundation.

The Universe The Sun Stars Earth Seasons Love Snowflakes Human hands The brain Fingerprints A beating heart Childbirth Our senses Growing Breathing Thinking Healing A stone statue crying real tears A baby found alive five days after a tsunami A mother chimpanzee caring for a baby tiger One person...

Smaller congregations in many denominations are struggling to survive. This doesn't mean they are necessarily "doing church" badly. But it does mean they need to do church differently. Intuiting this need, church leaders often begin gearing up for a strategic planning process....

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Across the top of a blank 8 1/2 x 11-inch page, write "Goodbye, Chalice Children!" Across the bottom, write the name of your congregation, and the year (optional: and the season or months) of your program. If you wish, draw thick lines along borders to make a frame for the contents—the drawing or...