Covenant

• Workshop 2: Living in Covenant

  Web of Youth Ministry Component: Faith Exploration This session describes why and how Unitarian Universalists covenant with one another and...
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  Sunday Assembly: Schism and Debate

  By Ted Resnikoff

  Sunday Assemblies? Faith > Practice > Religious Institution The recent Blue Boat blog post of observations made after attending the...

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  Assembled 2013:
  Select Sermons and Lectures from the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association

  From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop

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  Begin Again in Love

  By Jeanelyse Doran Adams

  As the New Year approaches I am grateful for yet another opportunity to begin again. Thankfully that opportunity is available to all of us...

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  Not for Ourselves Alone:
  Theological Essays on Relationship

  Laurel Hallman, Burton D Carley

  From Skinner House Books

  Also available as an eBook in the Amazon Kindle Store and on Google Play . Twelve essayists encourage a shift in Unitarian Universalism...

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A Chorus of Faiths, High School Youth

• Activity 1: Covenants

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity For your own use, list the elements of covenant you plan to...

A Place of Wholeness

• Workshop 10: Our Covenantal Faith
• Recovery, Rebuilding, and Rebirth of New Orleans

  Information and quotes for this article are drawn from UU World magazine, InterConnections , the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (...

Building Bridges, Grades 8-9

• Workshop 5: Judaism 1: The Birth of the Abrahamic Tradition
• Abrahams Covenant with God

  From The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of...

Building the World We Dream About: For Young Adults, 18-35

• Workshop 1: Telling Our Story: Multiple Truths and Multiple Realities

Families, Jr. High School

• Workshop 1: Introducing the Program

Love Connects Us, Grades 4-5

• Session 1: A Covenant is a Promise
• Session 14: Our Heritage's Calling
• Session 16: We are Active Creators of our Faith

Love Surrounds Us, Grades K-1

• Session 16: Our UU Principles

Resistance and Transformation

• Activity 1: Covenant

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Prepare a list of the elements of covenant you would like to...

Signs of Our Faith, Grades 2-3

• Session 3: Our Faith Is a Journey

The New UU

• Workshop 5: How Are Decisions Made? Governance and Polity
• Handout 1: Covenant as Promise

  A covenant is not a contract, but rather a voluntary relationship. The idea of a covenant has biblical origins and traditionally includes...

Toolbox of Faith, Grades 4-5

• Session 1: Faith (Toolbox and Ruler)

What We Choose: Ethics for Unitarian Universalists

• Workshop 1: The Locus of Moral Authority
• Workshop 10: Locus of Moral Authority Revisited

Windows and Mirrors, Grades 4-5

• Session 4: Building A Community Of Forgiveness

Wisdom from the Hebrew Scriptures

• Workshop 2: David and Nathan - You are That Man
• Nathan Confronts David

  2 Samuel 12: 1-10 (New Revised Standard Version) But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord, and the Lord sent Nathan to David...

Wonderful Welcome

• Session 2: The Gift Of Covenant
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  Making Promises, Making Covenants

  By Janeen K Grohsmeyer

  Do you remember your first day of school? I remember mine. Your parents and grandparents probably remember their first days, too. Probably...
• Session 3: The Gift Of Forgiveness

World of Wonder, Grades K-1

• Session 1: The Web of Life

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  Covenant Task Force calls for creation of UU general conferences

  By Sonja L. Cohen

  Group proposes recurring ecclesiastical conferences, reassessment of UUA organization to move toward effective covenantal relationships.
  Image credit: © Christopher L. Walton
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  A gym for the soul

  By Joanna Fontaine Crawford

  A covenant group is like a gym for the soul, an oasis in the desert.
  Image credit: © istockphoto/Radist

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  Give the DJ a Break, or: What Worship Leaders Wish You Knew

  By Erika A. Hewitt, Erica Baron

  In our congregations, how often do we assume that preachers, music directors, and other worship leaders are there to fulfill our personal preferences?

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  People of Memory

  By Kimberlee Anne Tomczak Carlson

  United in hope for the future, guides us to trust in love.
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  The Work We Share

  By Krista Taves

  The work we share creates and sustains this beloved community
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  The Heart of Our Faith

  By Monica Jacobson-Tennessen

  What is it ...
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  Communities of Memory and Promise

  By Kendyl R Gibbons

  Our communities of memory and promise are founded upon covenants because we all need a defense against the impulse of immediate feelings...
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  I Put My Faith in You

  By Anya Sammler-Michael

  I put my faith in you. I put my faith in every one of you who woke up this morning with the weight of loss—manifesting as numbness, anger,...
• The Promise and the Practice Litany: The Promise That Binds

  By Viola Abbitt

  Loving inclusion has been an elusive goal within our congregations. We are a covenantal people, and the promise of our faith, which was...
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  Water Communion Covenant Renewal

  By Tony Lorenzen

  At the bottom of this page, you'll find suggestions for this ritual's sanctuary setting. Board Chair/President: This morning, we reconnect...
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  Something on My Face: Learning How to Be in Community

  By Karen G. Johnston

  Before beginning, dramatically turn your back on the congregation and children, and place a smudge on cheek. It is important that this be a...
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  The Rules Make the Game

  By Laura Bogle

  To prepare, you'll need a few inflated balloons -- and to gird yourself for the improvisation required! Let’s play a game! Everyone knows...
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  Blessed Are We

  By Andrea Hawkins-Kamper

  Blessed are we who gather with open hearts, together, in this space, today. Blessed are we: the chalice-lighters of resistance, justice,...
• I Choose You, I Am Here

  By Emma Merchant

  I have never been particularly attached to the idea of family. Do you know The Swiss Family Robinson ? It's the story of how a family...
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  There's My Temple

  By Ma Theresa Gustilo Gallardo

  There's my temple! Believer, unbeliever or wild one. You are welcome! We have no definition of who we are but human. We have no code but...
• Together in a Sacred Space

  By Lorelei Greenwood-Jones

  Leader: In this sacred place, we need not be alone. We seek a listening ear, a warm heart, open arms. Congregation: In this sacred place,...
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  Remembership

  By Liz James

  Today, you join in membership. This is a moment of excitement and possibility. And although I don’t wish to pull you out of this moment, I...
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  Board Investiture Ritual

  By Audette Fulbright Fulson

  In a free religious community, to serve is the highest expression of our commitment and love. To be asked to lead is the highest honor...
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  Bold and Courageous Together

  By Erika A. Hewitt

  Reader 1: The word courage comes from the Latin cor , which means heart. According to poet Mark Nepo, the original use of the word courage...