Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Write on newsprint, and post: Can civil disobedience be undertaken as a mean between extremes, a middle path? If so, how do you recognize the middle path? If not, why not? How is the practice of...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Description of Activity Introduce the activity with these or similar words: What we view as virtuous is frequently driven by context. The virtuous action in one situation may be different from the virtuous action given...

Activity time: 15 minutes Preparation for Activity This activity offers a choice of two scenarios. Consider carefully whether the first scenario can be safely discussed in the group....

Activity time: 2 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter, or LED/battery-operated candle Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Preparation for Activity Arrange the worship table or designated space. Description of...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Pocket folder, pen/pencil, and paper for each participant Name tags, single-use or durable Newsprint, markers, and tape Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity Using the Workshop-at-a-Glance as a guide, create and post the agenda on...

Transgender individuals face much discrimination in the United States, in part because their struggles and their journeys are not well understood. In the spring of 2007, a public battle arose in Largo, Florida, around the struggle of one transgender person. Susan Stanton, then known as Steve, had...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Journals or notebooks, one for each participant Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Write on newsprint, and post: When have you had to make a choice between unappealing or downright undesirable options (i.e., what we sometimes cal...

Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity Share this scenario: You are on a television game show. You are offered a choice of two doors to open. You are told that if you open door Number 1, you will receive a million dollars....

Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Transgender 101 resources (UUA website) Preparation for Activity Find the Transgender 101 page of resources on the Unitarian Universalist Association website. Print the page and copy for all participants. (Also, send participants the electronic...

Activity time: 2 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter, or LED/battery-operated candle Preparation for Activity Arrange the worship table or designated space. Practice reading the excerpt (below) from "The Basis of Morals," so you feel...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Pocket folder, pen/pencil, and paper for each participant Name tags, single-use or durable Newsprint, markers, and tape Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity Using the Workshop-at-a-Glance as a guide, create and post the agenda on...

Immanuel Kant, a key figure in the field of philosophy, was born in what is now Germany. He grew up in a Lutheran household, part of a family that particularly emphasized piety and vigorous religious devotion. At the age of 16, he enrolled at the University of Konigsberg, and went on to spend his...

Activity time: 20 minutes Description of Activity Use this activity as an extension of Activity 4, Kant's Moral Law. Introduce the activity with these or similar words: Believing that moral rules need to be universally applicable, Kant arrived at some interesting conclusions about the nature of...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Description of Activity Invite participants to brainstorm a list of Unitarian Universalist moral/ethical statements....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Drawing paper Crayons, markers, and/or color pencils Preparation for Activity Prepare the meeting room so that participants have adequate table space for drawing, alone and in pairs. Set out materials where all can reach them....

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Journals or notebooks, one for each participant Variety of writing and drawing materials, such as pens, pencils, fine point color markers, and color pencils Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Write on newsprint, and post: Recall ...

Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity Share this question: If you steal one paper clip, is it okay for everyone else on the planet to also steal a paper clip-leading within the space of one day to six billion stolen paper clips?...

Activity time: 2 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter, or LED/battery-operated candle Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Preparation for Activity Arrange the worship table or designated space. Description of...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Pocket folder, pen/pencil, and paper for each participant Name tags, single-use or durable Newsprint, markers, and tape Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity Using the Workshop-at-a-Glance as a guide, create and post the agenda on...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leading 19th-century philosopher, father of the Transcendentalist movement. Before he became a philosophical and literary luminary, he was a Unitarian minister and served the Second Church in Boston between 1829 and 1832. In pursuing ministry, Ralph Waldo followed in the...