• Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook, for all participants
• Chalice, candle, and lighter, or an LED battery-operated candle
• Appropriate stand or small table for the chalice
• Cloth or decorative covering for chalice stand

• Prepare a welcoming space, including comfortable seating arranged in a circle around a small table with a chalice at its center.
• Place a hymnbook on or near each chair.

Bring the group together. Invite a volunteer to light the chalice. Share Reading 591,"I Call That Church Free," responsively with the group. Explain that James Luther Adams, the author of the opening words, was a prominent 20th-century Unitarian Universalist theologian.