Copy this page. Cut apart the different skits and assign them to groups. Knowledge Skit Your job as a small group is to create a skit that shows how new knowledge can change a right into a wrong or a wrong into a right....

Police officer Doctor Parent Schoolteacher School counselor Same-age friends Adult friends Minister or religious-education leaders Brother or sister Who else? Who else?

Props needed: Hanging name tags with character names A hand-held GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver, real or fake Long-haired wig for Guru Characters Narrator First UU Youth Second UU Youth Third UU Youth Fourth UU Youth Guru Scene The entrance to a high mountain cave....

The International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) Following the success of the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions, there was interest in forming an organization that could continue the work of bringing together different religious groups in dialogue and cooperation. In 1900, the...

Unitarian and Universalist women have a history of creating important organizations of their own. Some of these organizations came to play a role in supporting the work of Unitarians and Universalists in places beyond their own country's borders. In 1869, the Women's Centenary Aid Association was...

Africa In 2000, there were only a handful of Unitarian Universalist congregations in Africa. Now there are dozens. The first Unitarian Universalist churches were founded in South Africa, where four congregations were organized between 1867 and 1986, and in Nigeria. In Lagos, Nigeria, the First...

The World's Columbian Exposition, a spectacular and exuberant world's fair, was held in Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1893 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in North America. The architecture alone, Daniel Burnham's "White City," was unlike any other temporary...

From the Social-Justice Statement Book of the UUAHere are a few sample resolutions. 1. END OF TOBACCO PRICE SUPPORT PROGRAM—1978 WHEREAS, tobacco smoking is harmful to human health; and WHEREAS, the world needs more food crops grown on the limited areas of fertile land; and WHEREAS, the United...

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The spiritualist movement that emerged in Europe and the United States in the 19th century held that humans could communicate with the spirits of those who had departed the earthly realm....

From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empires but is not the immutable universal law....

In the climate of 19th-century Romanticism, a philosophy of religion arose that incorporated the new ideal of personal emotional experience. Transcendentalism was never an organized religion in its own right; many who espoused a Transcendentalist philosophy remained part of the Unitarian church....

One of the most remarkable periods of idealism for both Unitarianism and Universalism arose during the 1800s. Spurred by the mechanical and industrial revolutions, the 19th-century was a time of great fermentation of new ideas. On the scientific front, the century saw the development of general...

Unitarian Universalism has historically embraced both an exalted view of human nature and a confidence in the grace of God. Our Universalist forebears embraced the doctrine that all are saved....

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The debate about slavery in the United States proved contentious within both Unitarianism and Universalism. While some of the country's leading abolitionists were women and men who identified as Unitarian or Universalist, each of the young denominations struggled to articulate a unified stand.

Characters Narrator First UU Youth Second UU Youth Third UU Youth Fourth UU Youth First Bully Second Bully Third Bully Fourth Bully Props Name tags for characters, on card stock with string for hanging around the neck Scene A city sidewalk outside a tall parking garage NARRATOR: Some UU youth arr...

Angus MacLean and Sophia Lyon Fahs, two of the most important religious educators for the Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist movements, left indelible—and foundational—marks on the landscape of liberal religious education. Angus MacLean was Professor of Religious Education and...