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At the end of each workshop, participants will be given Internet links to material to read or view in advance of the next workshop. Workshops often include secular materials about the topic in question and offer many resources for further reflection and study.December 3, 2015 | From Facing Death with Life -
Goals This program will: Build community among participants and increase their comfort in talking about death and dying Invite participants to find their own personal meaning and theology of death Offer information about cultural and religious perspectives on death Invite participants to reflect ...December 3, 2015 | From Facing Death with Life
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As this program came to life over several years, death was a part of our own lives. Lee Ann’s mother died in December 2004 from cancer. Kate’s mother died in May 2006 after a 30-year struggle with multiple sclerosis. One day before her mother’s death, Kate’s uncle died a lonely, isolated...December 3, 2015 | From Facing Death with Life
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A curriculum that offers personal reflection, learning, and spiritual growth focused on the topic of death and dying. It brings death, dying, and grief into the light of our daily lives, and invites participants to experience death and dying as a healthy part of life.Curriculum | By Kate R. Walker, Lee Ann Wester | December 2, 2015 | For Older Adults | From Facing Death with LifeTagged as: Aging, Death, Life Transition, Older Adult Faith Development
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During a war between the birds and mammals, bat kept switching sides. After the truce, which side welcomes bat into their community?Story | November 26, 2015 (reviewed June 2025) | For Children, Families, Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: Accountability, Character, Regret, Relationships, War -
We humans are deeply, fundamentally, inescapably, relational beings. Our spirituality, our experiences of the sacred, revolves around how we relate to ourselves, to each other, to the cosmos. - Rev. Peter Morales, in Bringing Gifts, a publication of the Latino/Latina Unitarian Universalist...Taking It Home | November 6, 2015 | For Families | From Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults -
The work of building a just community means individually and collectively working in right relationship with people of historically marginalized groups and holding ourselves accountable for changing the things that create injustice. — Paula Cole Jones, contemporary Unitarian Universalist educator...Taking It Home | November 6, 2015 | For Families | From Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
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. . . For all the significant identities that constitute each of us, there is a personal essence that defines who we are, a singular soul that is hidden deep within beyond the layers of identity that protect it. When we make initial contact with each other, we only see the outside of that soul at...Taking It Home | November 6, 2015 | For Families | From Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
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Whatever any of us concludes about race relations, we should start by including all of us. — Frank Wu, author of Yellow Read (or reread) your journaling notes and reflect on the voices and perspectives shared in your small group. Then, write questions, puzzlements, observations, and new insights...Taking It Home | November 6, 2015 | For Families | From Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
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The struggle for racial justice in America calls those of us who are White to make this journey. Our presence is needed. We have been absent too long. — Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, from Soul Work: Anti-racist Theologies in Dialogue, Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley and Nancy Palmer Jones, editors (Boston:...Taking It Home | November 6, 2015 | For Families | From Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
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To consider "Whiteness" . . . is not an attack on people, whatever their skin color. Instead, [it] is an attempt to think critically about how white skin preference has operated systematically, structurally, and sometimes unconsciously as a dominant force in American—and indeed in global society...Taking It Home | November 6, 2015 | For Families | From Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
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I sometimes find myself "examining my identity" as other people examine their conscience ... I scour my memory to find as many ingredients of my identity as I can. I then assemble and arrange them. I don't deny any of them. — Amin Maalouf, contemporary Lebanese author, from In the Name of...Taking It Home | November 6, 2015 | For Families | From Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
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October 16, 2015 | From Hindsight, Humor, and Hope -
October 16, 2015 | From Hindsight, Humor, and Hope
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After the workshop, co-leaders should make a time to get together to evaluate this workshop and the workshop series. Use these questions to guide your shared reflection and planning: What were some of our favorite moments of the workshop series?...October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice -
Leaders are encouraged to prepare for the workshop not only by gathering supplies and reviewing the workshop's activities, but also by practicing centering, prayer, or meditation....October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
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To live with soul is to live deeply rooted in knowing and feeling that we are connected to one another and to the earth, that our life is held in the embrace of something larger than ourselves—a wisdom, a presence, a grace "whose beatitude is accessible to us," says Ralph Waldo Emerson in his...October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
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After the workshop, co-leaders should make a time to get together to evaluate this workshop and plan future workshops. Use these questions to guide your shared reflection and planning: What were some of our favorite moments of the workshop? What were some of our most challenging moments?...October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
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Leaders are encouraged to prepare for the workshop not only by gathering supplies and reviewing the workshop's activities, but also by engaging in a justice practice—something that puts your hopes for a better world into action. This could involve advocating, demonstrating, or serving the...October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
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What we would like to do is change the world—make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute... we can, to a...October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice