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  • Program Structure To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die....
    April 12, 2016 | From Faith Like a River
  • Thucydides wrote that history is philosophy taught by examples. If this is true, then we would do well to study the examples—the stories—from our own faith history to shape a philosophy for living our own faith. This program provides such an opportunity. By presenting the sweep of Unitarian...
    April 12, 2016 | From Faith Like a River
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  • We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
    October 29, 2014 | From Faith Like a River
  • We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
    October 29, 2014 | From Faith Like a River
  • James Reeb's calling emerged slowly, but steadily. He had grown up in Casper, Wyoming, where he met and married his wife Marie. A devout and conservative Christian, after college James began preparation for the Presbyterian ministry. While in seminary, he began to question his faith....
    Story | October 28, 2014 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • First Story When the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) conceived, created, and promoted a sexuality education program for youth, the project had no parallel in contemporary secular or religious education. Here's what happened. In the mid-1960s, the United States experienced liberation...
    Leader Resource | October 10, 2013 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • Between 1948 and 1967, Unitarianism experienced a period of enormous growth, perhaps the most significant increase in numbers for any time in Unitarian, Universalist, or Unitarian Universalist history....
    Story | September 24, 2013 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • Author Leonard Levy, in his book Blasphemy, notes that "heresy" is not a Hebrew term. In fact, there is no equivalent for it in the Pre-Christian era. Heresy, a view not consistent with the church, depends entirely on the existence of an orthodox religion. Both orthodoxy and heresy were foreign...
    Leader Resource | July 19, 2013 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.
    Leader Resource | January 24, 2012 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.
    Leader Resource | January 24, 2012 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Heritage of Heresy: Bisbee and Tuttle on the Universalist Frontier video Computer with Internet access, projector, and speakers Preparation for Activity Queue the four-part video Heritage of Heresy. Test computer equipment, projector and speakers.
    Activity | January 10, 2012 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • Humanity must ever reach out towards a New Eden. Succeeding generations smile at the crude attempts, and forthwith make their own blunders, but each attempt, however seemingly unsuccessful, must of necessity contain a germ of spiritual beauty which will bear fruit. — Clara Endicott Sears, founder...
    January 6, 2012 | From Faith Like a River
  • Leader Resource | October 26, 2011 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • Though the word "evangelism" may cause discomfort for Unitarian Universalists, Unitarians and Universalists over the years have been creative in finding ways to spread the "good news" of their liberal faith. Many of these efforts involved print media. As early as the 16th century in Europe,...
    Leader Resource | October 26, 2011 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • From the Unitarian Universalist Association archives.
    Leader Resource | October 26, 2011 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • Writings of the Reverend Quillen Hamilton Shinn (1845-1907). I am not on a pleasure trip wholly; the grandest recreation I get is working to spread our faith. Every liberal thinker in all this region is my parishioner. I own the mountains. Upon entering a new place the first impulse is to find if...
    Leader Resource | October 26, 2011 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River
  • Here are two stories of Unitarianism, Universalism, and Unitarian Universalism unexpectedly in the news which raised our name recognition across the country. For good or for ill? You decide. The Last Blasphemer Abner Kneeland (1774-1844) carried many banners through his lifetime: Universalist...
    Story | October 26, 2011 | For Adults | From Faith Like a River