James Luther Adams, quoted in the June, 1967 Playboy magazine article "Panel on Religion and the New Morality." A significant number of college students are already developing what I would call a new ethos....

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 4, Loving Our Whole Lives Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Read Handout 4, Loving Our Whole Lives, and copy it for all participants. Pre-arrange for a participant to read Handout 4, Loving Our Whole Lives, aloud....

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 3, Press Release Pens and pencils Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 3, Press Release for all participants. Write these questions on newsprint, and post: How will you frame the issue to your advantage? What's...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, From Liberation to Health Pens or pencils Preparation for Activity Read Handout 2, From Liberation to Health and copy it for all participants. Optional: Read the unabridged article on the UU World website....

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Handout 1, Religion and the New Morality Preparation for Activity Read Handout 1 and copy it for all participants. Write these questions on newsprint, and set aside: How does viewing sexuality as something connected to...

Read "From Liberation to Health" by Dan Kennedy, from the September/October 1999 issue of UU World magazine. Learn more about Our Whole Lives sexuality education programs and resources. The Religious Institute: a multi-faith organization dedicated to advocating for sexual health, education, and...

Take a few moments right after the workshop to ask each other: What went well? What did not? Why? What do you think was the best moment of the workshop? Why? Did anything surprise you? Review the next workshop. Are there any questions to research or logistics to arrange between workshops? Make a...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table and chalice Participant journals Writing materials, including paper, pens, pencils, color pencils, and markers Taking It Home handout Preparation for Activity Customize the Taking It Home section of this workshop and copy...

Preparation for Activity Ask your religious educator or minister about your congregation's actions in support of comprehensive sexuality education: Does your congregation offers any components of Our Whole Lives? For which age groups? What conversations have the Religious Education Committee or...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Timepiece (minutes) Chime or bell Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, the UUA hymnbook, for all participants Participant journals Writing materials, includin...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use), and bold markers Copies of Workshop 1,Handout 1, Schedule Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity Have copies of Workshop 1, Handout 1, Schedule on hand for those who need one. Using...

This topic has the potential to become intensely personal for you and participants. Read the workshop carefully and take note of any moments that trigger reflection on your own experiences....

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: Human Sexuality and Social Justice 20 Activity 2: From About Your Sexuality to Our Whole Lives 20 Activity 3: Sex and the Media 30 Faith in Action: Sexuality Education and Sexual Justice Advocacy in our Congregation Closing 10...

The sexuality education program is about wholeness and healing. It is about justice and equity. It is about responsibility to self and to others, and it's about enhancing the meaning and value of life itself, and those are all religious pursuits. — Judith A. Frediani, quoted in the 1999 UU World...

Song lyrics from a poem written by James Oppenheim, published in The American Magazine, 1911....

By Meredith Tax, from the Arlington Street Church Women’s Caucus worship service. Used with permission. In the Women’s Caucus worship service, lines 5 and 43 of the text read, “...live to serve others.“ At the author’s request, we have restored her original phrase, “...live to serve...

As a movement that touches my life, deeply, humanly, profoundly, the women's movement has to do with FREEDOM—freedom to become, to grow, to create, freedom to come to the following realizations: 1. I'm not a BODY, but a PERSON. I don't have to use my body to sell me, to anyone for any reason. 2....

Excerpted with the author's permission from the article "Thirty Years of Feminist Transformation" by Kimberly French, which originally appeared in UU World, Summer 2007. Copyright (C) Kimberly French, 2007....

This Business Resolution passed unanimously at the 1977 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly in Ithaca, New York....

Meetings of the Caucus are open to all women and their friends. Mothers and daughters come. Women from other UU churches drop in and have come back. Women with no church affiliation have joined the group. The Caucus usually meets in private homes in a geographical location that is accessible by...