Consider these questions as you review the workshop with your co-leader: Which parts of the workshop most engaged participants? Why? Were there parts that did not work as well? What could we have done differently? Where was it easy for you to work together? Where was it difficult?...

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...

Set aside time for journaling, reflection, prayer, and/or meditation, using these focus questions: What people—famous or not—do you think have lived a virtuous life? What actions and qualities can you point to that make their lives virtuous? What virtues are most important to you? What guides...

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 2 Activity 1: Opening Scenario 15 Activity 2: Reflection and Conversation 20 Activity 3: A Question of Virtue 15 Activity 4: A Life of Virtue — Mahatma Gandhi 20 Activity 5: The Middle Path 15 Faith in Action: Civil Disobedience and Virtue Closing...

The moral virtues are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. — Aristotle The philosophies of Kant and of Mill examined in Workshops 2 and 3 provide two different...

Part I John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a 19th-century British politician and political philosopher. Born and raised in London, Mill had a brilliant mind: He learned Greek starting at the age of three, and Latin and algebra when he was eight. He went on to serve the University of St. Andrews as...

Confronting Gender Identity Discrimination 2007 Responsive Resolution Whereas the President of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations noted, in his June 21st report to the General Assembly, the work of our West Florida congregations on the issue of employment discrimination again...

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....

Consider these questions as you review the workshop with your co-leader: Which parts of the workshop most engaged participants? Why? Were there parts that did not work as well? What could we have done differently? Where was it easy for you to work together? Where was it difficult?...

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...

Set aside time for journaling, reflection, prayer, and/or meditation, using these focus questions: Think of a time when you had to make a moral/ethical decision and the options before you looked equally bad. Given that there was no ideal way forward, how did you decide what to do?...

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 2 Activity 1: Opening Scenario 10 Activity 2: Utilitarian Ethics 25 Activity 3: The Lesser of Two Evils 25 Activity 4: Democracy, Authority, and Utilitarian Ethics 25 Faith in Action: Transgender Inclusion Closing 3 Alternate Activity 1: Social...

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. — John Stuart Mill, 19th-century British philosopher and civil servant Many of us make our ethical decisions by trying to...

This statement was adopted by the 2011 General Assembly after a four-year study and action process. Note: Paragraph numbering has been added to the original document for ease of use. 1. Aware of our interdependence, we acknowledge that eating ethically requires us to be mindful of the miracle of...

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...