Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Conundrum Corner poster/banner A cardboard sword Chalice and matches Recording of "Amazing Grace" and music player Optional: Newsprint, markers and tape Optional: Nametags and markers Optional: Decorative cloth for Conundrum Corner Preparation for...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Optional: Decorative cloth Preparation for Activity Set up a worship or centering table with the chalice and (optional) decorative cloth. Optional: Invite a participant in advance to act as...

Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Sign-in sheet and pen/pencil Name tags and markers Workshop 1, Leader Resource 1, Schedule Template Workshop 1, Handout 2, Time Line of UU History Preparation for Activity Create and post a workshop agenda on newsprint. The Workshop-at-a-Glance...

Activity time: 5 minutes Description of Activity Lead a group discussion about curiosity. Is curiosity in children a virtue or not? Start things off with questions like these: Has anybody here ever gotten in trouble because of curiosity? What about birthday presents or Christmas presents-have you...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Two dice (extra large, if possible) of different colors Ethics Play role nametags Ethics Play Scenarios (Session 1, Leader Resources 2-7) Optional: Masks, costumes, and wigs for roles Preparation for Activity If you are or your group is new to Ethi...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers and tape Optional: Index cards and pencils Description of Activity Ask participants to create their own lists of the seven worst (deadly) sins and the seven best (heavenly) virtues. The group can brainstorm its answers while a...

Activity time: 10 minutes Description of Activity This activity combines discussion with some simple movement as it leads participants to think about the meaning and purposes of religion and faith. It ends with an optional summary of faith definitions. Remind the group, as appropriate, that you...

Activity time: 7 minutes Description of Activity This activity solicits youth's ideas about which evils the world could do without. Ask the group to conceive the story of Pandora's Box written backwards. How would it go?...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 1, Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues Handout 1, Sins and Virtues Meanings for each team Index cards A pencil for each team Preparation for Activity Find a good, safe place for a lively relay race, if that is the approach ...

It wasn't the first of the Standing Order churches to split, but it sure made the biggest bang. In Puritan New England, each town was organized around its church. The members of the church were those who made a confession of Christian faith, while members of the parish were those who lived in the...

Excerpted and adapted from Frederick T. McGill, Jr. and Virginia F. McGill, Something Like a Star (Boston: Star Island Corporation, 1989). Used with permission.In July of 1896, Thomas H....

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Small slips of paper Fine-tipped markers or pencils The gift-wrapped box in your Conundrum Corner Description of Activity The group will create its own Pandora's box of daily evils. Begin with words like these: Sin or wrongdoing affects our lives...

Some of the first women ordained in the United States were Universalist or Unitarian. At the turn of the 21st century, a majority of Unitarian Universalist ministers were women. However, the path for women ministers in our faith tradition has not been easy. Of those early women who achieved...

William Ellery Channing was weary of having the epithet "Unitarian" flung at him in disdain. Ever since Henry Ware had been elected to the Hollis Professorship of Divinity at Harvard College, the temperature of public debate between orthodox and liberal factions of New England's Standing Order...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story "The Dedham Case" A copy of Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Optional: Bell or chime Optional: Computer and digital projector Preparation for Activity Print out the story and prepare to present it.

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Story, "Unitarian Summer - The Isles of Shoals" Paper and markers, pens, and pencils Optional: Child Hassam's painting, Poppies, Isles of Shoals and (optional) a computer and digital projector Preparation for Activity Print out the story and prepar...

Activity time: 3 minutes Materials for Activity Copies of Taking It Home Preparation for Activity Create a handout from Taking It Home that is specific to the activities used in this session. Description of Activity Briefly summarize what you have done in this session. Hand out any Taking It Home...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story "The Iowa Sisterhood" Handout 3, Remembering the Iowa Sisterhood One large candle or chalice, and lighter 21 tea light candles, or 21 LED battery-operated tea lights Centering table and decorative cloth Optional: A copy of Singi...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 2, From Antitrinitarian to Unitarian Handout 2, Defining Moments Preparation for Activity Print out Leader Resource 2, From Antitrinitarian to Unitarian and prepare to read or present it. Copy Handout 2, Defining Moments....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers and tape Any information you have found in response to youth ideas offered during the first session Small pieces of scrap paper Pencils Small pieces of string Preparation for Activity Collect and bring in any information that may...