Sophia Lyon Fahs

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Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness, and the feeling of being especially privileged. Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies. Some beliefs are like shadows, clouding children's days and fears of unknown calamities. Other beliefs...

Reading | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Belief, Division, Doubt, Faith, Growth, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Unitarianism
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Many of the past generation and many of today have found three abiding values in prayer: the quiet meditation on life, the reaching out toward the universal and the infinite, and the courageous facing of one's profoundest wishes....

Chalice Lighting | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Awe, Beginnings, Children, Courage, Empathy, Generations, Journey, Mystery, Progress

Many of the past generation and many of today have found three abiding values in prayer: the quiet meditation on life, the reaching out toward the universal and the infinite, and the courageous facing of one's profoundest wishes....

Meditation | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Children
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Adapted from Jesus, The Carpenter's Son (Boston: Beacon Press, 1945). Jesus was a great teacher long, long ago who preached God's love. Jesus taught that we should care for the poor and forgive people who hurt us. In his lifetime, Jesus influenced many people to love one another as they loved God.

Story | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our Faith
Tagged as: Christianity, Death, Identity, Unitarian Universalism
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Jesus had not been speaking long—at least so it had seemed with all who were there, yet the day was now almost wholly spent. As the afternoon shadows crept over the hillside the air had begun to chill....

Story | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our Faith
Tagged as: Communion (Christian), Food, Generosity, Unitarian Universalism
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For so the children come And so they have been coming. Always in the same way they come— Born of the seed of man and woman. No angels herald their beginnings No prophets predict their future courses No wise men see a star to show where to find the babe that will save humankind Yet each night a...

Leader Resource | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our Faith
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No matter how much of a humanist one may be, it would seem impossible (at least to me) for a thoughtful and sincere person who is trying to be a citizen of the world, who knows sympathetically something of man's religious history, to feel it necessary to discard completely all the ideas or concep...

Leader Resource | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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This was Sophia Lyon Fahs' 1960 Rufus Jones lecture, published by the Committee on Religious Education, Friends General Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 1960. Used by permission. ...

Leader Resource | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
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Excerpted from Worshipping Together with Questioning Minds, by Sophia Lyon Fahs. Copyright (C) 1965 by Sophia Lyon Fahs. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston. Two first-person anecdotes from Fahs' experiences as a religious educator, each followed by her analysis....

Story | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Aging, Awe, Children, Contemplation, Immanence, Mystery, Nature, Playfulness, Science, Unitarianism, Wisdom
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From Stories in Faith: Exploring Our UU Principles and Sources Through Wisdom Tales (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2007). Once upon a time, there lived a rich and vain young squire. Servants prepared his favorite foods each day. His every wish was granted. One of the young man's...

Story | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Wonderful Welcome
Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth-Centered, Interdependence, Letting Go, Money, Nature, Power, Respect, Simplicity, Transformation

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