Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Copies of Singing the Living Tradition and Singing the Journey Journals and pens/pencils Description of Activity Participants search for hymns that have themes of freedom, hope, or the difficulties of life. Distribute hymnals. Ask participants to...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 4, "A Change Is Gonna Come," by Sam Cooke Journals and pens/pencils A recording of "A Change Is Gonna Come" Preparation for Activity Obtain a CD with the Sam Cooke song, "A Change Is Gonna Come." You can also purchase and download the song ...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 3, "Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between the Races," by Lorna Dee Cervantes Journals and pens/pencils Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 3, "Poem for the...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, "Animal Liberation," by Genny Lim Journals and pens/pencils Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 2, "Animal Liberation," one for each participant. Description of Activity Distribute Handout 2, "Animal Liberation." Ask two or more...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, "End of a Discussion with a Jailer," by Samih Al-Qasim Journals and pens/pencils Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 1, "End of a Discussion with a Jailer," one for each participant....

You can find "End of a Discussion with a Jailer" in the anthology, The Space between Our Footsteps, by Naomi Shihab Nye (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998). Samih Al-Qasim is featured in the PBS Online NewsHour poetry series web pages. "Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an...

Discuss the workshop with your co-leader. Which activities worked best? Which could use improvement? Did the youth appreciate talking about difficult issues? If so, you might find ways to bring more social justice issues or current events into the workshops in the future.

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, one for each participant Description of Activity Use the Closing designed by your group or the one provided below. Recite together Reading 712 from Singing the Living Tradition: Do not be conformed to...

Materials for Activity Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) donation forms Preparation for Activity Print out In Memory Of https://secure2.convio.net/rif/site/Donation2?df_id=5081&5081.d… forms from the RIF website or call the Donor Relations Desk at 1-888-725-4801 to request forms. Description of...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice and matches Description of Activity Use the Opening designed by your group or the one provided below. Gather around the chalice. As a volunteer lights the chalice, ask the group to focus on the word "freedom" in silence. After about fifteen...

Just as the more serious topics of today's workshop might lead to unpleasant memories for some youth, you should process these activities yourself before starting the workshop. Think about how freedom, death (physical or of the spirit), hope, and courage have played into your life....

ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: Prison 10 Activity 2: Death of a Loved One 10 Activity 3: Racism 10 Activity 4: Hope 20 Faith in Action: Reading Is Fundamental Closing 5 Alternate Activity 1: The Themes of Hymns 20 Alternate Activity 2: UUs Working Toward Freedom 15...

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way... — Isak Dinesen Freedom. Freedom to question, explore, and make decisions based on our conscious. Freedom from prejudice and the right to be viewed as individuals. Hope for a...

Jalalud’din Rumi (!3th Century), translated by Kulliyat-e Shams, from Rumi's Divan of Shems of Tabriz: Selected Odes (Element Classics of World Spirituality). (England: Dorset Books, 1997) A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I....

My dear, my dear, I know More than another What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother Can know it as I know, Who broke my heart for her When the wild thought, That she denies And has forgot, Set all her blood astir And glittered in her eyes. From The Wild Swans at Cooley (1919).

This poem is written in dialect. I will bring you a whole person and you will bring me a whole person and we will have us twice as much of love and everything I be bringing a whole heart and while it do have nicks and dents and scars, that only make me lay it down more careful-like An' you be...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, "To a Young Girl," by William Butler Yeats Handout 3, ".05," by Ishmael Reed Journals and pen or pencils Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handouts 2, "To a Young Girl" and 3, ".05," one for each participant. Description of Activity...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Index cards and pens Newsprint or a dry erase board and markers Preparation for Activity Optional: Prepare a few index cards with love lyrics as an example for participants. Description of Activity Participants use the lyrics of popular songs to...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, A Rumi Poem Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 1, A Rumi Poem, one for each participant. Description of Activity Participants read a poem and explore their own views about a common theme in love poems: merging with another versus...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Art supplies, including drawing paper, pencils, markers, colored pencils, and other materials Newsprint or a dry erase board and markers Journals and pens or pencils Optional: CD player and music Preparation for Activity If youth will be free to wo...