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The gift of time can be the greatest gift of all.Story | By Denise Tracy | October 20, 2014 (reviewed August 2025) | For Children, Families, Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: Family, Father's Day, Fathers, History, Love, Mindfulness, Parents, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Simplicity, UnitarianismCurriculum page -
"My UU Experience" is taken from the website of the First Universalist Society in Franklin, Massachusetts, and used by permission of its author, Margaret Barthel....Story | October 20, 2014 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning)Curriculum page -
Adapted from an anecdote told in A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (Bantam, 1988), Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein (Penguin Group, 2007) and other sources. What if I ask you where everything comes from? What will you say? Leader: Invite responses.Story | October 20, 2014 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryTagged as: Belief, MysteryCurriculum page
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A service trip overseas leads to a personal transformation.Story | By Erik Mohn | April 23, 2014 (reviewed June 2025) | For Children, Youth | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: Caring, Multiculturalism, Poverty, TransformationCurriculum page -
A mother and daughter story about being able to feel good about one's body.Story | April 2, 2014 (reviewed July 2025) | For Youth, Families | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: Acceptance, Beauty, BodyCurriculum page -
A retelling of the Greek myth where evils are released into the world, but hope remains.Story | By Gail Forsyth-Vail | November 22, 2013 (reviewed June 2025) | For Children, Families, Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: HopeCurriculum page -
Mary McCarthy's parents died in the influenza epidemic of 1918 when she was six years old. She lived first with an aunt and uncle, who mistreated her cruelly, then was taken in by her maternal grandparents in Seattle. Her grandmother was Jewish and her grandfather Episcopalian, but to honor the...Story | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building BridgesTagged as: AtheismCurriculum page -
Once upon a time, two sisters lived side by side. They both owned farms: One grew the sweetest grapes for miles around, the other raised vegetables. A small creek ran between the two farms. For decades, the sisters were as close as could be....Story | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building BridgesTagged as: ConnectionsCurriculum page
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The Catanna website published by Catresea Ann Canivan was a source for this story and offers deep information about Paganism. Come with me on a journey—a journey that is as old as time itself. Repeated so often, the earth knows the rhythm and follows it, like a cosmic dance. First steps of the...Story | November 15, 2013 | For High School | From Building BridgesTagged as: PaganismCurriculum page
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Between 1948 and 1967, Unitarianism experienced a period of enormous growth, perhaps the most significant increase in numbers for any time in Unitarian, Universalist, or Unitarian Universalist history....Story | September 24, 2013 | For Adults | From Faith Like a RiverCurriculum page -
The story of Caroline Hewins, one of our nation’s first female librarians.Story | By Susan Dana Lawrence | September 23, 2013 (reviewed June 2025) | For Children, Families, Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: Happiness, History, Living Our Faith, Personal Stories, Transformation, UU HistoryCurriculum page -
Connecting a personal joy of reading to the history of libraries and the role of UUs in establishing them.Story | By Andrea Greenwood | September 23, 2013 (reviewed June 2025) | For Children, Families, Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: Happiness, History, Living Our Faith, Personal Stories, Transformation, UU HistoryCurriculum page -
At the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, Minnesota, people of all ages carry their own Passport to Justice. They are on a journey to help others....Story | By Jan Devor | September 16, 2013 | For High School | From Building BridgesTagged as: JusticeCurriculum page
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"What Can One Person Do When 6.8 Billion Are Frying the Planet?" by Franke James. Posted December 28, 2010 on the YES! Magazine website. YES! Magazine encourages you to make free use of this article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Printing This Handout Download a...Story | July 18, 2013 | For Multigenerational | From Circle of TreesCurriculum page -
From The Kids' Book of Awesome Stuff (Brotman-Marshfield Curriculum, June 2004). Used with permission. Take a deep breath. The air you just breathed in is different from the air you just breathed out. The air you breathed out is a gas that can suffocate you if too much of it gets in the air. That...Story | By Charlene Brotman | July 11, 2013 | For Multigenerational | From Circle of TreesTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Connections, Earth, Gratitude, Humanism, Interdependence, Nature, Salvation, Science, Stewardship, WonderCurriculum page -
Today we will hear about two girls from long ago, who both had the last name of Brown. As you hear the story, see if you can notice other things they had in common, besides a name. Let's go back in time together, about 200 years, to meet Antoinette Brown....Story | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our FaithTagged as: Brokenness, Courage, History, Identity, Leadership, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarianism, UniversalismCurriculum page -
One day in Alabama, in 1968, as farmers worked in their fields, a small airplane swooped into view. The farmers looked up wonderingly as papers fluttered out of the plane, into the sky and came swirling down to earth all around them. The papers were flyers about the upcoming elections—flyers with...Story | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our FaithTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), 6th Principle (World Community), America, Anti-Oppression, Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb, Conscience, Democracy, History, Identity, Justice, Politics, Power, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Unitarian UniversalismCurriculum page
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Abby always liked school, but she was especially excited about today. Her class had earned a reward: a game day! Their teacher, Dr. Liu, promised they could spend most of the day playing games. Abby's best friend, Kamal, hoped they would play his favorite board game. Abby hoped they would play...Story | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our FaithTagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Authority, Choice, Compromise, Democracy, Identity, Unitarian UniversalismCurriculum page
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Based on a Santerian story. Special thanks to Lesley Murdoch for her insights to Afro-Caribbean religions. The Orisha are gods that came originally from Nigeria, in West Africa, as part of the Yoruba religion....Story | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our FaithTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Beauty, Brokenness, Challenge, Commitment, Community, Courage, Diversity, Indigenous American, Justice, Limitations, Multiculturalism, MulticulturalismCurriculum page
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Ricardo and his grandparents arrived at Camp Taylor for the congregation's weekend retreat. This was Ricardo's third year at the retreat and he had been looking forward to this weekend for months. He helped bring the bags to their cabin....Story | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our FaithTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Culture, Direct Experience, Identity, Meaning, Reverence, Spiritual Practice, Unitarian Universalism, WorthCurriculum page