Workshop 12: I've Got Tears Like the Raindrops: Freedom

In This Section

• Introduction

  We can choose between hating our neighbors or feeling kindly toward them. We can avenge or forgive. We can participate in political life;...
• Workshop-at-a-Glance

  Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 5 Activity 1: Slavery and Antislavery 25 Activity 2: How Is Freedom Achieved? 25 Activity...
• Spiritual Preparation

  Take time to reflect on these questions: What does freedom mean to you? How is your freedom related to others' freedom? You may wish to ask...
• Welcoming and Entering

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Sign-in sheet and pen/pencil Name tags and markers Workshop 1, Leader Resource 1,...
• Opening

  Materials for Activity Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Copies of Singing the Living Tradition , the Unitarian...
• Activity 1: Slavery and Antislavery

  Materials for Activity Leader Resource 1, Slavery and Antislavery Leader Resource 2, Slavery and Antislavery Quotes Bowl or basket...
• Activity 2: How Is Freedom Achieved?

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Handout 1, How Is Freedom Achieved? Leader Resource 3, Mary Livermore, Portrait Leader...
• Activity 3: Martha and Waitstill Sharp

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape A copy of the story " Righteous Among the Nations - Martha and Waitstill Sharp"...
• Activity 4: Litany of Allies

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Paper, pens, and markers Copies of Singing the Living Tradition , the UUA hymnbook...
• Closing

  Materials for Activity Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Taking It Home Optional: Faith in Action from this...
• Leader Reflection and Planning

  After the workshop, co-leaders should talk together to evaluate this workshop and plan future workshops. Use these questions to guide your...
• Faith In Action: Our Congregation's Justice Work

  Preparation for Activity Talk with your minister, religious educator, congregational historian, and/or long-time members about your...
• Alternate Activity 1: Working for Freedom

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Write on newsprint and post: What made you decide to act? What...
• Taking It Home

  We can choose between hating our neighbors or feeling kindly toward them. We can avenge or forgive. We can participate in political life;...
• Righteous Among the Nations: Martha and Waitstill Sharp

  Working through the night, Martha and Waitstill Sharp burned all their notes and papers. After this they would keep no records of the...
• Handout 1: How Is Freedom Achieved?

  Mary Livermore, in addresses to the Women's Centenary Aid Society and the mass meeting of the Centennial Assembly of Universalists in...
• Leader Resource 1: Slavery and Antislavery

  The debate about slavery in the United States proved contentious within both Unitarianism and Universalism. While some of the country's...
• Leader Resource 2: Slavery and Antislavery Quotes

  1. The 1790 Universalist Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania passed this resolution, On Holding Slaves, written by Benjamin Rush, one of...
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  Leader Resource 3: Mary Livermore, Portrait

  From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.
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  Leader Resource 4: Olympia Brown, Portrait

  From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.
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  Unitarians and the Fugitive Slave Law ...