This statement was passed on June 25, 2010 by the delegates to the 2010 General Assembly in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Unitarian Universalist theologians Dr. Sharon Welch, Dr. Dan McKanon, and Rev. Dr. Paul Rasor were consultants in the crafting of the statement, and all three spoke in support of it...

Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808-1884) There came a time when Universalists refused to go with me as an abolitionist, an advocate for the rights of women, for earnest temperance pleaders... Then it came to me that Christ's death as an atonement for sinners was not truth, but he had died for what he...

From the Library of Congress.

You will present a mock debate between two great Unitarians of the 19th century, Theodore Parker and Ezra Stiles Gannett. Both men were esteemed preachers who spoke eloquently and passionately for their cause. Review their arguments for and against the Fugitive Slave Law, and dive in!...

From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.

From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.

From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.

From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.

From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.

From the Library of Congress.

From the Library of Congress.

From The Shaking of the Foundations. Sometimes... it is as though a voice were saying: You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now;...

Excerpted from Tomorrow's Child: Imagination, Creativity, and the Rebirth of Culture by Rubem A. Alves (New York; Harper & Row, 1972). What is hope? It is the presentiment that imagination is more real and reality is less real that it looks....

Excerpted from a sermon, delivered at First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 6, 2009; used with permission. Diversity is the destiny of our world, and if Unitarian Universalism is to survive and thrive, it must be our destiny, too. We can be an island of whiteness in a river of many...

Sometimes a group rambles or has no spark (not a good thing for a simulation!). If a group seems lost and needs a sense of direction, "coach" them toward a more active and provocative stance by suggesting that they employ one of these strategies....

During the simulation, visit all the committees and groups and observe of what is happening. As committees and groups begin to achieve a sense of purpose or direction, it may be a good time to throw in a "wild card" to complicate their task. You may only have time for a few wild cards. You might...

These two roles are to be played by facilitators. Do not share candidate descriptions with simulation participants. Simply act out the roles extemporaneously if you choose to visit the various groups and committees, using your appearances as "wild cards" to keep the simulation engaging. The Job...

"Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (Far Corner Books. Portland, OR, 1995). Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, What you counted and...

"The Bridge Poem" from The Black Back-Ups: Poetry by Kate Rushin (Ann Arbor, MI: Firebrand Books, 1993). Permission pending. I've had enough. I'm sick of seeing and touching both side of things. Sick of being the damn bridge for everybody. Nobody can talk to anybody without me. Right?...

There must be always remaining in every life some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathlessly beautiful and—by an inherent prerogative, throwing all the rest of life into a new and creative relatedness—something that gathers up in itself all the freshets...