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And let me tell you, if you have indeed been renewed in the spirit of your minds, it will [show] it self in your lives. — Charles Chauncy This workshop introduces Charles Chauncy's Theology of Spiritual Renewal. The workshop translates Chauncy's mid-18th-century theological program for spiritual...February 19, 2013 | From What Moves Us -
Albert D. Bell, The Life and Times of Dr. George de Benneville (1703-1793), (Boston: The Universalist Church of America, 1953). John C. Morgan and Nelson C. Simonson, George de Benneville entry on the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography website.February 19, 2013 | From What Moves Us
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This is a 30-minute activity. You will need newspaper, markers, and tape. Write the reflection questions on newsprint, and post them. Invite participants to form groups of three or four and reflect for 25 minutes on de Benneville's life and theology using the posted questions as a guide. Then...Leader Resource | February 19, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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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 have you learned about your own ability to explore personal experiences as part of your own strategy to...February 19, 2013 | From What Moves Us
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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Small worship table and cloth Chalice, candle and lighter or LED battery-operated candle A copy of Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Taking It Home handouts for all participants Preparation for Activity Review the Tak...Activity | February 19, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Optional: Microphone Description of Activity Gather participants in one large group and invite comments, observations, and insights....Activity | February 19, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Timepiece (minutes) Optional: Bell or chime Preparation for Activity Write on newsprint and post: Have you ever experienced a spiritual crisis? If so, how did the spiritual crisis differ from a purely emotional crisis?...Activity | February 19, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Handout 1, Introducing George de Benneville Story, "Remarkable Passages (Excerpt)" Participant journals Variety of writing and drawing implements Optional: Microphone Preparation for Activity Review the story so you can...Activity | February 19, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Participant journals Variety of writing and drawing implements Timepiece (minutes) Optional: Bell or chime Preparation for Activity Prepare a piece of newsprint with these questions: Did this experience challenge your...Activity | February 19, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Notebooks with unlined pages, to be used as journals, for all participants Variety of writing and drawing implements Timepiece (minutes) Preparation for Activity Obtain notebooks with unlined pages, enough for all...Activity | February 19, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Small worship table and cloth Chalice, candle and lighter or LED battery-operated candle A copy of Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Newsprint, markers, and tape Optional: Microphone Preparation for Activity Set up th...Activity | February 19, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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Use the following exercises and questions to help you find connections between your own faith journey and de Benneville's: In his narrative, de Benneville says his soul sank into nothingness and humiliation before experiencing an ocean of love....February 19, 2013 | From What Moves Us
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The spirit of Love will be intensified to Godly proportions when reciprocal love exists between the entire human race and each of its individual members. — George de Benneville This workshop introduces George de Benneville's Liberal Theology of Boundless Universal Love. The workshop tests the...February 19, 2013 | From What Moves Us
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From "Healing Community: Small group ministry as a spiritual practice," UU World, January/February 2005. Recall a time when you were filled with joy. Where were you? At home? At a concert? A party? Maybe you were in a religious service or on vacation....Leader Resource | By Thandeka | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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Love beyond belief, according to Thandeka, means that personal experience has three basic elements for us as Unitarian Universalists: (1) a change of heart, (2) a congregational ethos of care and compassion, (3) doctrinal freedom to explore various sources to explain our religious feelings and...Handout | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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The Reverend Dr. Thandeka is cited as one of our most influential contemporary Unitarian Universalist theologians. She is the author of The Embodied Self: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Solution to Kant's Problem of the Empirical Self and Learning To Be White: Money, Race, and God in America, and...Handout | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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There was an extraordinary range of personal beliefs among the participants in my 2003 small group workshop in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. They were the delegates, staff and visitors attending the annual meeting of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists....Story | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves UsTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Awe, Belief, Caring, Community, Compassion, Connections, Diversity, Freedom, God, Unitarian Universalism
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Several years ago, I spent an evening discussing Covenant Groups with members of a New England church who were interested in starting a small group ministry program....Story | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves UsTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Acceptance, Caring, Community, Compassion, Courage, Depression, Direct Experience, Empathy, Friendship, Inclusion, Intimacy
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In July 2003, I went on an eight-day spiritual retreat at a Benedictine monastery in Wisconsin. The night before I left Chicago to drive to the monastery, as preparation for the journey, I made a series of decisions about what kinds of clothes I would need while on this retreat. I was thorough. I...Story | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves UsTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Belief, Brokenness, Community, Compassion, Conflict, Contemplation, Courage, Direct Experience, Failure
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Contemporary Liberal Theology American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, January 2009. Dorrien, Gary, The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity, 1950-2005 (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006). Grodzins, Dean, ed., A Language of Reverence, (Chicago:...February 7, 2013 | From What Moves Us