To the Anchor: Today's WCUU broadcast explores UU answers to today's Big Question: "Is life fair?" Several candidates will try out for the position of Dr. Phayre, a TV advice person who answers viewer questions on-air, from a UU point of view. The current Dr. Phayre, a WCUU celebrity, is now...

1.a. Your name is Jay. You are one of three finalists for the single scholarship that Super Summer Camp offers every year. You hear the camp is a great place and you really want to go. But you will not be able to unless you win the scholarship. What will make tomorrow a perfect day for you? What...

You break your arm—the one you write with. A hurricane destroys the homes of 5,000 families in another part of the country. You had let go of your dog's leash for one minute and now you can't find your dog. A parent found all your hidden candy and threw it away. Fighting soldiers in a nation far...

To the Anchor: Today's WCUU broadcast explores UU answers to today's Big Question: "Why do bad things happen?" The script has three parts. In the first, a panel of four UUs share UU responses to the question....

Includes material from Why Do Bad Things Happen? by Charlene Brotman, Barbara Marsh, and Ann Field (Brotman Marsh-Field Curriculums, 1975)....

Paraphrased from the 1961 UUA General Resolution.All our laws must respect human life. Our laws and courts should help criminals, not hurt or kill them. Nobody can prove that capital punishment stops crime. If we make a mistake and put the wrong person to death, we cannot correct the mistake.

Find this 1961 UUA General Resolution text online....

The WCUU script includes short speaking parts for four UUville Citizens. You will need to decide exactly what to say when the Roving Reporter interviews you. The paragraph about your role will help you get started....

To the Anchor: In today's WCUU broadcast, Roving Reporter wanders around UUville and asks citizens what they believe happens when we die. Your job is to follow the script, read your part and otherwise keep things going....

Unitarian Universalism — We all can have different ideas about an afterlife, whether it exists, and what it might be like. We agree that after physical death, a person lives on through the people who have known them and the deeds they have done.(Our century-long Universalist heritage taught that...

Unitarian Universalism — We agree that after physical death, a person lives on through the people who have known them and the deeds they have done. We may hold different ideas about the nature or existence of an afterlife. Roman Catholicism — We believe people are judged when they die, based on...

1. Is the theory of evolution the best way to explain how life began? Yes — No 2. I would rather study . . . Myths — Science 3. I think that something or someone had to start the whole process of evolution. Call it God, or call it Mystery or whatever, but whatever you call it, it had to be...

To the Anchor: Today's WCUU program talks about a UU scientist's attempt to have life named the greatest wonder of the world. Your job is to follow the script, read your part, and otherwise keep things going. When the broadcast begins, you are alone on camera, sitting or standing in front of a...

Think of your small group as a detective agency and the following events as mysteries to be solved. Make up a story to explain what caused one of the mysteries numbered 1-5. Then, make up a story to explain mystery number 6. If you have more time, return to mysteries 1-5 and choose another to solve.

Copy, divide, and distribute appropriate parts of this page to these Activity 4 On-Air People: Atheist, Theist, Agnostic, Humanist, Mystery Seeker, God as Love-ist, and Pagan. Atheist — You do not believe God exists.. You try to live by the UU Principles. You like searching through the UU Sources...

To the Co-Anchors: Today's WCUU program talks about the beliefs of different people gathered in the UU tent at an International Camp of Faith. Your job is to follow the script, read your parts, and otherwise keep things going....

Make a copy of this page with enlarged type. Cut the terms and definitions apart so they can be given to (or pinned or taped on) each youth. Theist — Believes God exists Atheist — Believes God does not exist Agnostic — Says God might or might not exist Humanist — Says people's...

Make a copy of this page with enlarged type. Cut the lines apart so they can be placed in various points of your meeting room. YOUR PARENTS YOUR MINISTER YOUR FRIENDS YOUR SCIENCE TEACHER YOUR OWN INNER SELF...

Hand a copy of this resource to your Kid for the Day at the appropriate time during your Opening. For the Kid for the Day: You have two jobs: The first is getting your group excited about hearing Today's Big Question. The second is announcing the question. 1....

I was walking along the sidewalk minding my own business when I stepped on a wad of old chewing gum. My foot kept moving but my shoe . . . It's funny how the whole thing started. It was just a little, tiny fly that landed right on . . . I can usually throw a ball pretty well, but that time I did...