Workshop 4: The Nineteenth Century Women's Peace Movement

In This Section

• Introduction

  Oppression and war will be heard of no more Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will then be a useless...
• Workshop-at-a-Glance

  Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: On the Frontlines 15 Activity 2: Personal Experience and Justicemaking 10...
• Spiritual Preparation

  Think about where you received your inspiration to lead this workshop. Who or what influenced you to facilitate this program? Why have you...
• Welcoming and Entering

  Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use), and bold markers Workshop 1,...
• Opening

  Materials for Activity Worship or centering table Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Timepiece (minutes) Chime or...
• Activity 1: On the Frontlines

  Materials for Activity Story, " Clara Barton " Leader Resource 1, Clara Barton, Portrait Optional: Computer and digital projector...
• Activity 2: Personal Experience and Justicemaking

  Materials for Activity Timepiece (minutes) Chime Description of Activity Invite participants to consider the ways our personal experiences...
• Activity 3: Generations of Action

  Materials for Activity Leader Resource 2, Transformative Relationships Handout 1, Transformative Relationships - A Map Handout 2, Women in...
• Activity 4: Web of Influence

  Materials for Activity Newsprint or large sheets of drawing paper for all participants A variety of color markers Preparation for Activity...
• Closing

  Materials for Activity Worship or centering table and chalice Participant journals Writing materials, including paper, pens, pencils, color...
• Leader Reflection and Planning

  Take a few moments right after the workshop to ask each other: What went well? What didn't? Why? What do you think was the best moment of...
• Faith In Action: Generation to Generation

  Preparation for Activity Invite youth from your congregation to join the group for a conversation. The youth group and the Coming of Age...
• Alternate Activity 1: The Battle Hymn of the Republic

  Materials for Activity Handout 3, The Battle Hymn of the Republic Copies of Singing the Living Tradition , the UUA hymnbook, for all...
• Alternate Activity 2: In Barton's Footsteps

  Materials for Activity Handout 4, Embattled Faith Pens and pencils Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Review Handout 4...
• Taking It Home

  Oppression and war will be heard of no more Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will then be a useless...
• Clara Barton

  Clara Barton was born on Christmas Day, 1821, in Oxford, MA, into a Universalist family. She was living in Washington, D.C. when the U.S...
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  Handout 1: Transformative Relationships - A Map
• Handout 2: Women in the Peace Movement

  Frances Dana Barker Ga ge (1808-1884) was a Universalist, a lecturer, activist, novelist and journalist who was passionate about rights for...
• Handout 3: The Battle Hymn of the Republic

  Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath...
• Handout 4: Embattled Faith

  By Neil Shister

  Excerpted from the article "Embattled Faith," by Neil Shister, which appeared in the July/August 2003 issue of UU World. Used with the...
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  Leader Resource 1: Clara Barton, Portrait

  From the Library of Congress.
• Leader Resource 2: Transformative Relationships

  Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808-1884) There came a time when Universalists refused to go with me as an abolitionist, an advocate for the...
• Find Out More

  Clara Barton Read " Unitarian and Universalist Roots of the American Red Cross " in the January/February 2002 issue of UU World . Women in...