Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Create a chart on newsprint with three columns, titled Prophetic, Parallel, and Institutional. Post the chart. Description of Activity Invite participants to reflect on the three strategies that...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story "A. Powell Davies" Leader Resource 3, A. Powell Davies, Photograph Optional: Computer and digital projector Preparation for Activity Read the story and prepare to read or tell it to the group. Make copies for participants....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story "Margaret Fuller" Leader Resource 2, Margaret Fuller, Portrait Optional: Computer and digital projector Preparation for Activity Read the story and prepare to read or tell it to the group. Make copies for participants....

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, Henry David Thoreau Leader Resource 1, Henry David Thoreau, Portrait Optional: Computer and digital projector Preparation for Activity Review Handout 2 and make copies for participants. Prepare to project Leader Resource 1, or print a copy.

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, Prophetic, Parallel, and Institutional Voices Preparation for Activity Review Handout 1 and make copies for participants. Plan to invite three volunteers to read the definitions in the handout aloud....

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table and chalice Participant journals Copies of Singing the Living Tradition for all participants Taking It Home handout Preparation for Activity Customize the Taking It Home section of this workshop and copy for all participants.

Description of Activity Take a moment to reflect on the diversity of approaches to social justice work in your own congregation. Do you feel indifferent about or uncomfortable with any of the social justice work in your congregation?...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Time piece (minutes) Chime or bell Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, the UUA hymnbook, for all participants Optional: Cloth for worship/centering table...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Index cards and pens/pencils Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Find out about social action projects in which the congregation is currently involved. Post blank newsprint. Description of Activity Hand out the index cards, asking...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story "The Good Samaritan" Talking stick or other small object for passing, one for each small group A chime Timepiece (minutes) Description of Activity Say, in your own words: Now that we have created a list of ideals and explored so...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape A copy of the story "The Good Samaritan" Preparation for Activity Read the story "The Good Samaritan" and prepare to read or tell it to the group....

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table and chalice Participant journals Copies of Singing the Living Tradition for all participants Taking It Home handout Preparation for Activity Customize the Taking It Home section of this workshop and copy for all participants.

Preparation for Activity Invite three or four activist members of your congregation to join a panel and share their stories of why they are involved in social justice work, what they do, and how their social justice work reflects their Unitarian Universalist faith....

Lydia Maria Child is not as famous now as she was when she lived— famous as a radical and reformer, a brilliant thinker and author, and a tireless advocate for oppressed members of society, specifically Native Americans, children, Africans and African Americans held in slavery, and women. Lydia...

The Tenderloin district of San Francisco can be intimidating because of its high concentration of homeless people, poverty, prostitution, and drug and alcohol abuse. Tourists are cautioned to avoid the area. But where some people saw danger, two women from different faiths saw an opportunity for...

Thich Nhat Hanh In Southeast Asia, the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, used the principles of compassion and nonviolence to campaign against the war in Vietnam. Hanh believed that people of faith, especially youth, couldn't remain silent in the face of social injustice. They must work together to...