We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
Hough, George Jr, and Eugene Raudsepp. Creative Growth Games. New York: Perigee Trade, 1980. Climate Change Rethinking Schools Resources for Climate Change Climate Change Education National Environmental Education Week Climate Change Resources Music for Inspiration "Imagine" by John Lennon "One...
Herd of Sheep Bias — When we do not think critically about our choices and our beliefs. We choose and believe based on the choices and beliefs of others around us. It's Them, Not Me — When we make choices based on a bias that we do not even know we have. Cherry Picking Bias — When we make...
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October 29, 2014
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High School
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Heeding the Call
Sometimes, freedom is a long time coming. It may take generations upon generations for justice to be won. Our Unitarian ancestor Reverend Theodore Parker said, "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe: the arc is a long one...
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Jessica York
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October 28, 2014
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High School
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Heeding the Call
Thirty spokes are joined together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that allows the wheel to function. We mold clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that makes the vessel useful. We fashion wood for a house, but it is the emptiness inside that makes it livable. We work with the...
Taking It Home
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October 28, 2014
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Families
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Building Bridges
Print out the handout for Option 1, where youth keep the guide on paper. If using Option 2, cut and paste to a CD. Heeding the Call Justicemakers Guide (Word)...
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October 28, 2014
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High School
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Heeding the Call
All things are within me, and on self-examination, I find no greater joy than to be true to myself. We should do our best to treat others as we wish to be treated. Nothing is more appropriate than to seek after goodness. — Mencius, Confucian philosopher (372-289 BCE) IN TODAY'S WORKSHOP... we...
Taking It Home
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October 28, 2014
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Families
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Building Bridges
... everything on the Earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence. — Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) (1888-1936), Native American (Salish) novelist IN TODAY'S WORKSHOP... we discussed indigenous religions and some...
Taking It Home
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October 28, 2014
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Families
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Building Bridges
Jacob Lawrence The Migration Series, Panel No. 3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north.1940-1941 The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (C) 2009 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/ Artists Rights You have two options for using this image....
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October 28, 2014
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High School
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A Place of Wholeness
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
MATERIALS Chalice or LED/battery-operated candle Paper and pens/pencils DESCRIPTION Opening Use your established opening ritual. Check-In Focus Share the poem "The Place Where We Are Right" by Yehuda Amichai, translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. Copyright 1996 by Chana...
Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, “Pull the Next One Up,” by Marc Kelly Smith Journals and pens/pencils Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 1, “Pull the Next One Up,” one for each participant. Description of Activity Distribute Handout 1, “Pull the Next One...
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October 28, 2014
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High School
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Exploring Our Values Through Poetry
Leonard Nathan, "Bladder Song" from The Day the Perfect Speakers Left (C)1969 by Leonard Nathan and reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.On a piece of toilet paper Afloat in the unflushed piss, The fully printed lips of a woman. Nathan, cheer up! The sewer Sends you a big red kiss.
Handout
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October 28, 2014
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High School
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Exploring Our Values Through Poetry