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  • A dark field with faint glimmers from candles in the distance, and one wax candle, close up, in the foreground, lit with a steady flame.
    Adults, as well as children, become afraid in the dark. The night awakens imagination, which can play with our knowledge of the world’s real dangers.
    Reflection | By Susan Dana Lawrence | June 10, 2025 (reviewed June 2025) | For Adults, Families | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Faith Development, Fear, Imagination, Mental Health, Personal Inspiration, Self-Care, Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Practice, Worry
  • A hand-drawn set of symbols and phrases surround two hands (one older one younger) holding a flame. They are: an open book (Sacred Stories); some speech bubbles intersecting at a heart (Faithful Conversations); hands cupping a finger labyrinth (Creative Contemplation); a UU t-shirt (Public Witness); a group of people encircling a spiral (Joyful Connections); an anvil with a flame like a chalice with hands holding forge tools (Community Making)
    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.
    Curriculum | June 3, 2025 (reviewed June 2025) | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Faith Development
  • A stream cuts through a verdant hillside. Text pasted over the image reads, "The Stream: UU Youth Leadership and, below that, "An Ecosystem for Liberatory Youth Community."
    ...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.
    Leader Resource | By Ember Oak Kelley | April 18, 2025 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Youth Ministry
  • Two youth walk underneath the outstretched arms of adults creating a tunnel for them to pass through.
    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...
    Training | March 25, 2025 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Bridging Ceremony, Faith Development, Unitarian Universalism, Youth/Teens
  • In this colorful graphic illustration, about twelve different people, seen from above, hold hands in a spiral circle. Repeated, smaller spiral circles of the same people surround one big one.
    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.
    March 19, 2025 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Faith Development, Trust
  • YUUP Logo. The yellow Y has an orange flame, the U's are blue and pink and the P is purple
    Five years after a small group of youth and emerging adults across the country in collaboration with Lifespan Faith Engagement started the Young UU Project as a way to stay connected when they couldn’t be together in person, the LFE office has decided it’s time to sunset the program. The Young...
    February 27, 2025 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Faith Development
  • Youth exploring spirituality and activism during a workshop led by UU College of Social Justice during UU-UNO 2017 Intergenerational Spring Seminar
    Across our congregations, we see both challenges and opportunities in engaging high school aged youth. We, your friendly Youth and Emerging Adult Ministry Regional Liaisons, recently collected data to understand what’s working and what needs attention, so that we are not relying on our own...
    February 24, 2025 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Faith Development
  • The sun is setting over the dark blue Atlantic ocean. The sun is a glowing yellow ball, surrounded by a halo of hot orange. Clouds, grey with shadows, float above the sun.
    The Sunset of Tapestry of Faith: New Horizons in UU Faith Development and RE
    February 20, 2025 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Faith Development, Prophetic Words & Deeds
  • Campers and staff gathered around campfire in the dark
    Camp allows us to provide the most important part of being UU to our youth — a place where they can come as a whole person and be loved and cared for.
    Congregational Story, Feature, Immersion Experience | February 19, 2025 | From Pacific Western Region
    Tagged as: Faith Development, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Middle School-Aged Youth Faith Development
  • Light skinned person with short light brown hair and dark glasses wearing a brown sweater looking at the camera with a chalice behind him.
    Conversation between Rev. Tandi Rogers and Perry Montrose the Director of Faith Formation at All Souls in New London CT in a wide ranging conversation from saying "yes" and the kids' summer leadership meeting to so much more.
    January 21, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
  • Screenshot of three people talking on zoom. One light skinned woman with glasses and short light brown hair in a room with wood paneling. One light skinned woman with short white hair and glasses. One light skinned woman with long brown hair with glasses.
    Rev. Tandi Rogers talk with Sadie Kahn-Greene and Rev. Allison Palm who serve the UU Church of Nashua NH in a wide ranging conversation including children in worship, collaboration, their program which includes children's chapel, UU themed workshops, all ages worship, and "switch it up" Sundays.
    January 21, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
  • Light skinned person with shoulder length dark hair, black shirt, and glasses looks at the camera with a wall of books behind her.
    Conversation between Rev. Tandi Rogers and Rev. Meagan Henry. Meagan sees participating in the congregation as experiential faith formation. This conversation explores belonging, welcome, and Meagan's experience at First UU Brooklyn NY.
    January 21, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
  • Screenshot of Ginger Yoder speaking to the camera. A light skinned person with long dark hair and bangs smiles at the camera. There's a dark chair and light wall behind her.
    Rev. Tandi Rogers interviews Ginger Yoder (Director of Faith Formation/Family Ministry) & Rev. Elizabeth Stevens (minister) of the UU Church of the Palouse in Moscow Idaho on following the lead of young people.
    January 14, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
  • Screenshot of Allison Connelly Vetter talking to the camera. Light skinned person with red-brown glasses and mid length red-brown hair pulled back with a hair band talking to the camera. There's a white book case and a blue wall behind her.
    Rev. Tandi Rogers. & Allison Connelly Vetter, Interim Director of Children, Youth, and Families Ministries at First Universalist Church of Minneapolis exploring shifts in programming for children and youth in a large congregation.
    January 14, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
  • Flying blue OWL logo over words "Our Whole Lives" and "Curriculum updates"
    This your source for replacement pages to keep your Our Whole Lives manuals up to date with changes in formatting or content. Please download, print, and use them to replace their associated pages in your copy(ies).
    Curriculum | January 9, 2025 | From Sexuality Education
    Tagged as: Faith Development, Sexuality Education
  • Picture of Gail DeSomer on the recording. Light skinned older woman with light blond hair wearing a green shirt smiles at the zoom screen.
    Rev. Tandi Rogers Gail DeSomer is part of the DREAM Team at First Unitarian in South Bend Indiana that supports an all-volunteer run small congregation program for children and youth responsive to the needs of the children and families.
    January 7, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
  • Image of Calisse Weidner. Light skinned person with red blond hair tied back and brown glasses, wearing a blue and white shirt, with a brick wall behind smiles at camera.
    Conversation between Rev. Tandi Rogers and Calisse Weidner, DRE at Prairie UU Church (Parker, CO) talks about the Brunch Bunch. Bunch Bunch is a way that the congregation is serving youth.
    Video | January 7, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
  • a child's hands reach toward the camera holding three leaves, one yellow, one red, one green.
    On one end of the continuum, some congregations are using curriculum that have been in use for years and are still working well. At the other end of the continuum, other congregations are experiencing changes to the religious education program that are clear and dramatic. 
    January 7, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
  • Three children sit at a table looking at an adult across from them. One child has wide eyes and his mouth open in excitement, and another reaches his open hand out to the adult.
    As UUA staff we sometimes speak with congregations where an age-divided, curriculum-based religious education program is working well. And why should it not? There are some truly great UU curricula bringing together some of the best of experiential and play-based pedagogy.Here are some things...
    January 7, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development
  • Three children look at the camera from under a blanket fort. They're smiling and holding two pillows in front of them.
    More emergent faith formation spaces feel very different from structured classroom experiences. Hear some example stories and consider if your congregation is ready to move in this direction.
    January 6, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Families & Faith Development