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  • A binder marked board policies with a UUA chalice
    Starr King UU Church shares their Zoom Inclusion Policy as an example for other churches to adapt.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Bylaws & Policies, Disability & Accessibility
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  • An image of a live electrical circuit with two interconnected transistors that look like brains.
    Micro-signals – Key Concepts Micro-signals are the little messages we send and receive that are subtle, contradictory, or unconscious. They’re the unstated messages you get when you “read between the lines.” They can be intentional or unintentional, conscious or unconscious, positive or...
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • A group of people on a chancel with a large screen behind them showing Zoom participants
    In this section of the Guidebook your team is invited to do a deeper dive into the ministry of inclusion as we share our story at Starr King UU Church, including some theological reflection, frameworks, and tips.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • Graphic showing a teeter-totter with a group of humans outweighing a few people on computer screens.
    Multiplatform Ministry strengthens our communities, helps attract and retain members, and provides valuable inclusion lessons applicable to other inclusion efforts.
    Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • his is a sketch of our rectangular physical sanctuary with rows of congregants in chairs, and windows along the left wall. The front of the sanctuary is on the right. The worship leader stands at a podium with the chalice on the left and a piano on the right. The sound booth is in the back right corner of the room.
    The Starr King UU Church tech team shares how they arrange their space and set up their technology with an emphasis on the value of inclusion.
    Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | January 21, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • A black and white image of two video screens -- one with people in chairs in a church sanctuary and the other with people in Zoom participant windows -- with cartoon arms enabling the screens to hug one another.
    Multiplatform worship is the way of the future! Here are ideas on how to strengthen connection and community with improved multiplatform inclusion.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | January 9, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • Two teal brushstroke waves create a spiral.
    What is sexual abuse within the ministerial relationship? This article was originally published on the Faith Trust Institute by the Rev. Dr. Marie Fortune.
    Leader Resource | January 7, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Activism, Professional Misconduct
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  • White text on light green background reads Serious Challenge in Parental Well-Being and How UU's Can Respond
    Webinar centering parent voices on how UU congregations can support families in response to the recent US Surgeon General report "Parents Under Pressure", where he says that the stresses of parenting children right now is such a heavy lift that it has become a health concern for parents
    Leader Resource | December 6, 2024 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
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  • A young adult in a sweater and hat with eyes closed lays their head on the shoulder of another person in a knit hat who is looking away.
    Is your young adult group feeling "meh?" Here are 5 ideas to reverse decline and bring back the energy!
    Leader Resource | November 22, 2024 | For Emerging Adults (18-24) | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)
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  • A Progress Pride flag on a flagpole, with a blue sky and bright sun behind it.
    LGBTQ+ people are under attack; we need to be prepared to fight for ourselves and each other. Together, we have what we need to survive. Here are some resources for community care and mutual aid.
    Leader Resource | By Nico Van Ostrand, Ember Oak Kelley , Mylo Way | November 21, 2024 | For Middle School, High School, Emerging Adults (18-24) | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, Community, Discernment, Education, Faith, Growth, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Homecoming / Ingathering, Leadership, LGBTQ Issues, Multiculturalism, News, Prayer Practices, Rights, Secular, Teaching Methods, Truth, Unitarian Universalism, UU Identity, Worship
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  • A wide shot of a pond surrounded by trees and shrubs, in a green season.
    Ember Kelley writes, "I’m a survivor of the youth leadership-to-seminary pipeline. In elementary school, I made a statement that would end up shaping the course of my entire life. When asked about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I dared to name “Pastor” ...
    Leader Resource | By Ember Oak Kelley | November 20, 2024 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Leadership, Youth Ministry
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  • Sheet music for "Shared UU Values"
    Shared UU Values by Kate Gillis "I was having difficulty remembering the seven values so I made up a song to make them more memorable. Now I would like to share my song to help other UUs become more comfortable with the words."This memorable tune can be used in worship, religious education, and...
    Handout, Leader Resource | November 14, 2024 | For Multigenerational | From Shared Values
    Tagged as: Faith Development
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  • A black and white image of a flame with the words TEAM: The Emerging Adult Ministry in an arc above the image
    A heaping list of resources for supporting 18-24 year olds in UU congregations. Help your emerging adults connect to pastoral care, ministry tools, broader networks, and other EAs nationwide.
    Leader Resource | By Eric Dew Bliss | November 13, 2024 | For Emerging Adults (18-24) | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Campus Ministry, Hospitality, Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)
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  • Picture of Melissa James. Light skinned person with shoulder length dark hair wearing a dark red shirt.
    Melissa James, UUA Congregational Life Field Staff with the Pacific Western Region, invites us to notice and to re-imagine what thriving in RE / faith formation might mean in our own contexts, right now.
    Leader Resource | November 5, 2024 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
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  • Screenshot of Erica Baron, short reddish hair, glasses, light skin, sitting in front of a busy background with green walls.
    Religious education teams in our congregations are experiencing some significant challenges right now, and that’s partly because parents are having a particularly hard time right now. Knowing some of the larger patterns can help us feel less alone and also point to new ideas.
    Leader Resource | November 5, 2024 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
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  • The camera is looking down at someone's lap wearing black pants and a blue shirt. Their hands are playing with a rainbow fidget.
    In many congregations, adults of different generations have different understandings of neurodiversity leading to gaps in expectations of children. To better welcome families, it's important for older adults to understand the expectations of adults currently parenting!
    Leader Resource | By Erica Baron | November 5, 2024 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
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  • Image of Time Demands "There's never enough time" with a clock
    As UUA staff I get asked a lot of questions about parents and families from “where are the families?” to “how come parents aren’t volunteering in RE?” Parental stress is a big part of the answer to all of these questions.
    Leader Resource | November 5, 2024 (reviewed August 2025) | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
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  • A hammer is lying on a board surrounded by nails partly hammered in, most of them bent.
    Rev. Tandi Rogers wrote this blog almost fifteen years ago. Then, the idea seemed a good one for a break from the curriculum-focused Sunday School most congregations used. We are republishing it because this is one example of a religious education model that is working really well in a variety of...
    Leader Resource | By Tandi Rogers | November 5, 2024 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
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  • People gather around a garden plot. A green bucket is in the foreground. To the right an adult and and two children hold a hose.
    You are member of the religious education community garden, too! Your congregation has a plot, and you have neighbors who are ready to support and share in the journey.
    Leader Resource | By Lauren Wyeth | November 5, 2024 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
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  • A twig is horizontally across a light green background. From the twig hangs a darkened butterfly chrysalis, a butterfly with dark wings just emerging, a butterfly with light dotted wings hanging on an empty chrysalis and a fully emerged butterfly with open dark wings with light dots in rows.
    What’s Working in RE? A project of the New England Region: In the spring of 2024, we convened ministers and religious educators from congregations whose RE programs are vibrant and/or growing . This is our report on what we heard from these congregations.
    Leader Resource | By New England Region of the UUA | November 5, 2024 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, Family Programs
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