By Welleran Poltarnees. Used with permission from Laughing Elephant Publishing.Use this text from the book A House Blessing by Welleran Poltarnees as inspiration and create a simple blessing of the building, appropriate for preschoolers....

The care and nurture of RE teachers and other volunteers is essential! These resources will transform your RE program into the ministry it is meant to be!

How to best support your child as they participate in the Religion in Life program.

DREs or other RE leaders should be aware of plans. They can help make sure safe congregations policies are being followed and might have ideas for advisors.

The program offers a great opportunity for a girl or group of girls to connect with other UU adults in the congregation or community.

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The Religion in Life for Girl Scouts program empowers girls to explore and decide how to complete the program’s requirements. These pages guide the parents, troop leaders, religion in life advisors, religious professionals, or other adults supporting the program.

A wonderful exercise to elicit emerging ideas and to discover where the energy resides in a large group.

Holmes (left), from the Unitarian Universalist Association archives. Taft (right) from the United States Library of Congress.

Print with the diagram on one side and the text on the back....

Teaching RE can be an opportunity for faith development, deeper engagement, and shared ministry with the proper tools and support.

THE LORD'S PRAYER Our Father Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done On earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive those who trespass against us....

Atheism has been granted protection as a religion under the law for purposes of freedom of religious expression and protection from religious persecution. It was established that not believing in a god or gods is a religious belief, and deserves equal protection under the law. Atheism is often...

"Pagan" comes from the Latin word "paganus." Its original meaning is not clear....

Chalice Candles Altar cloth Water Cell phone Hymnbook Bowl of soil Incense Photographs of family and friends Feather Money Photographs of the sick or others in need of prayer or attention Bowl of snacks Bread for a Bread Communion Beautiful stones Writing paper and pens Mementos from deceased fam...

Being in covenant together is a lot like a dance. There is give and take. Occasionally you step on someone else’s feet or they step on yours.

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...

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First Story When the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) conceived, created, and promoted a sexuality education program for youth, the project had no parallel in contemporary secular or religious education. Here's what happened. In the mid-1960s, the United States experienced liberation...

Explain that the term humanist has various meanings. A person described as a humanist might have all the opinions we just discussed. But the word "humanist" is also used to describe when something is being looked at through human experience and with regard to its effect on human beings....