Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 4, This Letter Is to Express our Personal Disapproval Preparation for Activity Read Handout 4 and copy it for all participants. Arrange for two volunteers to read the correspondence between Rev....

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, UUA Resolutions on the Draft Handout 3, Social Witness and the UUA Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Read the current UUA guidelines for social witness. Find information, including graphs and outlines of the complete...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Story, "The Church and the Draft Resisters" Handout 1, The Church and the Draft Resisters - Full Text Preparation for Activity Read the story and prepare to read it aloud to the group. Or, pre-arrange for a participant to do so and provide the...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table and chalice Participant journals Writing materials, including paper, pens, pencils, color pencils, and markers Taking It Home handout Preparation for Activity Customize the Taking It Home section of this workshop and copy...

Preparation for Activity Find out what "political" issues your congregation has become involved with in recent years. Description of Activity Most Unitarian Universalist communities have at least one issue, large or small, that brings into question the role of the congregation in public witness.

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Story, "Brook Farm" Preparation for Activity Read the story and arrange with three or four volunteers to read it aloud to the group. Assign each volunteer a section of the story and give all the volunteers a copy of the story in advance....

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Handout 1, Utopianism and Apocalypticism Preparation for Activity Read Handout 1 and copy it for all participants. Description of Activity Distribute Handout 1, Utopianism and Apocalypticism. Allow participants a few...

Materials for Activity Computer with Internet connection Leader Resource 1, Statement of Conscience - Creating Peace Preparation for Activity Online, access recent social justice statements and resolutions regarding wars, conflicts, and peacemaking passed by the General Assembly of the Unitarian...

There was once a girl who loved to write stories and poems. She often wrote about the land and birds around her home. Her name was Rachel Louise Carson and she was born in 1907. When Rachel grew up she became a writer and a scientist. Rachel wrote wonderful stories and she always explained the...

Materials for Activity Newspaper, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Post a few sheets of blank newsprint. Description of Activity Find out as much as possible about a significant and controversial issue, and present your findings as a letter to the editor and/or a letter to a relevant...