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A covenant is not a contract, but rather a voluntary relationship. The idea of a covenant has biblical origins and traditionally includes the understanding that the relationship is sacred or blessed....Handout | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UUTagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Acceptance, Business Meetings, Community, Connections, Covenant, Democracy, Discernment, Diversity, Faith, Freedom, Governance, Unitarianism, Immigration -
You might think that Beatrix Potter was a lonely child. Perhaps you would be right. True, she lived in a large city: London, England. True, the only child she had to play with was her brother, Bertram, and he was usually away at boarding school....Story | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Faithful JourneysTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Diversity, Imagination, Interdependence, Nature, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Science, Unitarianism, Women -
By Judith C. Campbell. Used with permission. From UU & Me!: Collected Stories, edited by Betsy Hill Williams (Boston: Skinner House, 2003). Originally published in uu&me, Volume 3, Number 3, December 1999. UU&Me! is published by the Church of the Largeer Fellowship. Hello....Story | By Judith Campbell | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Faithful JourneysTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 6th Principle (World Community), Acceptance, Community, Diversity, Globalism, Hospitality, Multiculturalism, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarianism, Multiculturalism
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One morning, more than a hundred years ago on the island of Jamaica, a boy named Ethelred Brown went to church. Usually at this church, the people sang their creed, their list of what they believed....Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Faithful JourneysTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anti-Oppression, Brokenness, Christianity, Diversity, Education, Faith, History, Immigration, Inclusion, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Sacrifice, Unitarianism, Immigration
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Our hearts should be too warm and too large for hatred. More than one hundred fifty years ago, back when trains were new and airplanes and cars hadn't been invented, back when women always wore long skirts and everyone wore hats, a girl named Fannie Barrier lived in a town in New York State....Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Faithful JourneysTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Challenge, Courage, Diversity, Equity, History, Inclusion, Justice, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Unitarianism