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...

Materials for Activity Optional: Newsprint list of unanswered questions, created in Activity 1 Preparation for Activity Speak with the social action committee, your minister, or others who can help you find examples of current congregational social justice activities that involve freedom of speec...

Activity time: 5 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 Participants' journals (Workshop 1) Optional: Clo...

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....

If you were born before 1950, you may have experienced the era of Senator McCarthy and intense anti-Communism first-hand. If so, recall what it was like for you. What is your understanding of the "Red Scare?" What impressions did you get from the media at the time? Did you know your family's...

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 5 Activity 1: Introduction to HUAC 25 Activity 2: The Levering Act 30 Activity 3: Is Free Speech Fundamental?...

We consider the House Committee's inquiry into speakers, meetings and activities of the church an attack upon our institution and on all organized religion and our nation's tradition of the free conscience and the open mind....

The 1960s were a time of turbulent social change....

The history of Brook Farm (see Workshop 7) demonstrates the difficulty of creating a successful and lasting utopian community. However strong the desire to do so, the likelihood is small that a community can sustain itself when it is organized around values different from those of the dominant...

Medieval Jewish story, A Chosen Faith (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998). A rabbi spoke with God about heaven and hell. "I will show you hell," God said, and they went into a room which had a large pot of stew in the middle. The smell was delicious, but around the pot sat people who were famished and...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Reflect on your personal definition of safe space. What is safe space? What does it contain?...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Story, "The Love Feast" Finger foods such as fruit, cookies, or cake, and toothpicks or utensils Decorations Optional: Candles Optional: Music Optional: Participant journals Preparation for Activity At least a week beforehand, describe the activity...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Sticky dots, ten for each participant Preparation for Activity Post two sheets of newsprint. At the top of one write "Dominant Culture." At the top of the other write "Counter-Culture." Optional: Write your own list of...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, LRY, Cons, and the Counter-Culture Preparation for Activity Read Handout 2 and copy for all participants. Description of Activity Introduce the activity by explaining that participants will examine an example of a Unitarian Universalist...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Handout 1, The Temporary Autonomous Zone Participant journals Pens, pencils, and extra paper Preparation for Activity Read Handout 1 and copy for all participants....

The Temporary Autonomous Zone "The Temporary Autonomous Zone", by Hakim Bey, on the Hermetic Library website "The Temporary Autonomous Zone and the Power of Ritual," by Rev. Colin Bossen in the Journal of Liberal Religion, Spring 2006....

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...

Description of Activity Invite some children, youth, or adults who have attended a Unitarian Universalist camp or conference to come and share their experiences and impressions with the group. Explore these questions: Did the experience change you in any way? How? Did the conference create a...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Time piece (minutes) Chime or bell Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, the UUA hymnbook, for all participants Optional: Cloth for worship/centering table...