With in-gathering behind us, we settle into the rhythm of Autumn and the church year. This month’s round-up includes resources to support special days, like All Souls and All Saints Day, Indigenous People’s Day — and tools to center and engage our Shared Values and Faith Development Goals.

The Lifespan Faith Engagement team shares our focus and goals for 2025-2026 through the metaphor of Indria’s Net. Recognizing our interconnectedness can transform the way we approach the charms and challenges that our religious community offers.

UUs all over are gathering for a new year of faith development and community building. This month’s round-up responds to suggestions from the field, with curated resources to support RE program planning, worship, and shared values learning, and some non-curricular Our Whole Lives resources

Fresh Religious Education supplies, volunteer orientations, and a calendar of your congregation’s faith development offerings – it’s the beginning of a new church year! Here’s a curated guide of resources that may be helpful for you over the next couple of months…Empowering Your Leaders:…

Finding balance between productivity and rest remains essential for offering nourishment in our gifts of religious leadership. To lead in these times takes enormous energy of body, mind, and spirit, and it is essential that we find experiences of joy and rest in our lives so we do not burn out.

The UU Common Read for 2025-26 Is Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Now!

Whole Church RE connects people of all ages in transformational community learning. Aligned with UU shared values and congregational faith development goals, WCRE resources and activities offer six embodied practices for grounded in Religious Education programming and pedagogy.

…I hope to offer dreams for a future of Youth Leadership that is slowly emerging. The upheaval of many systems in recent years brings possibility. We can both honor and value the contributions of the past while meeting our youth in this moment–their moment– to create something new.

This spring, many congregations are planning for their respective bridging ceremonies, one of the most treasured and lovely traditions held all year and dearly beloved by many families and elders. Throughout, there is transcendent testimony from the youth, speaking of the impacts…

The Authentic Selves UU Common Read has new guidelines for UU congregations to uphold the dignity, privacy, and safety of trans and nonbinary participants and guests.