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Articles, ideas, and other resources for your Religious Education program. Refine your search by selecting topic, age group, collection (e.g. Threshold Conversations) and/or author.

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  • 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. Recorded for a fall 2024 LREDA workshop, full resources available on the LREDA Portal
    January 14, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, 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. Recorded for a LREDA workshop, full resources available on the Portal
    January 14, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, Faith Development
  • 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. Recorded for LREDA workshop, full resources available on Portal
    January 7, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, 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. Recorded for a fall 2024 LREDA workshop, full resources available to LREDA members on the LREDA Portal.
    Video | January 7, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, 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, Families & Faith Development, 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, Families & Faith Development, 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, Families & Faith Development, Faith Development
  • Two children crouch in fall leaves while throwing handfuls of leaves into the air.
    If your curriculum-based program is thriving, you don’t need to throw out your curriculum! You can make space for emergence without sweeping changes.
    January 6, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, Faith Development
  • A light skinned person with long dark hair holds one hand against their forehead and another hand outstretched signaling "stop". There are light blue and oranges splashes of color like paint against an otherwise dark background. The words "stress", "emotional strain", "tense" and "depression" are written in these splashes with fragments of definitions.
    The oldest Millennials are in our forties now. Lots of researchers have looked at the wealth of Millennials compared to Baby Boomers as they turned 40....
    By Erica Baron | January 6, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Families & Faith Development, Parenting
  • A child's hand holds a crayon above a geometric coloring page. A glass jar holds more crayons.
    You may have heard curriculum isn't "working" in faith formation. The reality is much more nuanced. Yes and no and everything in between. This collection of resources has been created to expand and contextualize conversations about “curriculum” in UU congregations.
    By Lifespan Faith Engagement, Congregational Life | January 6, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, Faith Development
  • A person with brown skin in a bright safety vest and hard hat holds a laptop computer against a white background
    As we are striving for sacred inclusivity, prophetic justice, and meaning-making we are also wrestling with digital security, data management, and protecting vulnerable populations.
    December 16, 2024 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Faith Development
  • White text on light green background reads Serious Challenge in Parental Well-Being and How UU's Can Respond
    Webinar centering parent voices on how UU congregations can support families in response to the recent US Surgeon General report "Parents Under Pressure", where he says that the stresses of parenting children right now is such a heavy lift that it has become a health concern for parents
    Leader Resource | December 6, 2024 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, Faith Development
  • Speech bubbles gather round a flame "Threshold Conversations: meaning making for the future of UU faith formation"
    Engage with a panel discussion about Whole Church RE with experienced religious professionals
    Webinar | By Kirsten Hunter, Kimberly Quinn Johnson , Monica Dobbins, Joy Berry, Lenore Bajare-Dukes | November 25, 2024 | For Multigenerational | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Multigenerational Faith Development
  • An empty sanctuary with light streaming down from the narthex above.
    Faith Development for All, With Love (and Community) at the Center
    Feature | November 22, 2024 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Education, Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, Identity Formation, Multigenerational Faith Development, Faith Development
  • A young adult in a sweater and hat with eyes closed lays their head on the shoulder of another person in a knit hat who is looking away.
    Is your young adult group feeling "meh?" Here are 5 ideas to reverse decline and bring back the energy!
    Leader Resource | November 22, 2024 | For Emerging Adults (18-24) | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)
  • A Progress Pride flag on a flagpole, with a blue sky and bright sun behind it.
    LGBTQ+ people are under attack; we need to be prepared to fight for ourselves and each other. Together, we have what we need to survive. Here are some resources for community care and mutual aid.
    Leader Resource | By Nico Van Ostrand, Ember Kelley , Mylo Way | November 21, 2024 | For Middle School, High School, Emerging Adults (18-24) | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Activism, Community, Discernment, Education, Faith, Growth, Homecoming / Ingathering, Leadership, Prayer Practices, Rights, Secular, Truth, Unitarian Universalism, Anti-Oppression, LGBTQ Issues, UU Identity, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Multiculturalism, Teaching Methods, News, Worship
  • A wide shot of a pond surrounded by trees and shrubs, in a green season.
    Ember Kelley writes, "I’m a survivor of the youth leadership-to-seminary pipeline. In elementary school, I made a statement that would end up shaping the course of my entire life. When asked about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I dared to name “Pastor” ...
    Leader Resource | By Ember Kelley | November 20, 2024 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Leadership, Youth Ministry
  • A black and white image of a flame with the words TEAM: The Emerging Adult Ministry in an arc above the image
    A heaping list of resources for supporting 18-24 year olds in UU congregations. Help your emerging adults connect to pastoral care, ministry tools, broader networks, and other EAs nationwide.
    Leader Resource | By Eric Bliss | November 13, 2024 | For Emerging Adults (18-24) | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Campus Ministry, Hospitality, Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)
  • Picture of Melissa James. Light skinned person with shoulder length dark hair wearing a dark red shirt.
    Melissa James, UUA Congregational Life Field Staff with the Pacific Western Region, invites us to notice and to re-imagine what thriving in RE / faith formation might mean in our own contexts, right now.
    Leader Resource | November 5, 2024 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, Faith Development
  • Screenshot of Erica Baron, short reddish hair, glasses, light skin, sitting in front of a busy background with green walls.
    Religious education teams in our congregations are experiencing some significant challenges right now, and that’s partly because parents are having a particularly hard time right now. Knowing some of the larger patterns can help us feel less alone and also point to new ideas.
    Leader Resource | November 5, 2024 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, Faith Development