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  • A mature tree growing out of a mossy rock with its roots exposed.
    A worship collection calling upon our individual and collective resilience for troubled times.
    Reference | November 1, 2024 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Resilience, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Several arms and hands with different skin tones are intertwined and connected.
    Originally designed for the Safety Conference Threats from Without, Care from Within, this short worship service recording offers a time of refuge and centering during troubled times. View it alone or as a group.
    Sermon, Video | By Rosemary Bray McNatt, Mariela Pérez-Simons, Jules Taylor | October 23, 2024 (reviewed November 2024) | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Resilience, Trauma, Congregational Action, Worship
  • In a gym-turned-polling station, multiple adults stand at individual voting booths filling out ballots. An American flag and "vote" are stenciled on the side of one partition.
    A worship collection celebrating democracy as a promise and a practice
    Leader Resource | October 7, 2024 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: #UUTheVote, Activism, America, Democracy, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Taken from a balcony looking down, people enter a Unitarian church building with red carpet. They are entering wooden pews with hymnals in their arms.
    Whether your congregation is layled or whether you have a professional minister (maybe you are the professional minister!), it's not always easy to fill the worship schedule.
    Complete Service | By Erika Hewitt | September 27, 2024 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Our planet appears suspended in space, lit by a blue halo.
    New ideas for connecting our theology to meaningful, sensory-rich worship.
    January 3, 2024 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Earth Day, Climate Justice, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • An illustration of a blue hand holding small red hearts and "planting" them as seeds. The dark blue ground is sprouting red hearts growing on dark stalks. The message says "Seeds for the new year: an on-demand worship collection for UU congregations" and the url "UUA.org/2024"
    WorshipWeb offers you a set of worship resources to welcome 2024.
    November 2, 2023 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: WorshipWeb, Worship
  • A silver menorah, against a dark background, holds colored candles. The first three candles and the shamash candle are lit.
    Thoughtful commentary and context for how to light a menorah responsibly and respectfully.
    Video | By Joanna Lubkin | October 10, 2023 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Hanukkah, Judaism, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • 14 hands in a circle, each touching the rim of a chalice
    Based on the theology of Creative Interchange, this training is for teams who have the honor of co-creating meaning while shaping the worship experience of the congregation.
    Training | By Erika Hewitt | September 13, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • A view of wooden church pews, and the church narthex, from the pulpit. The pulpit holds a piece of sheet music and a microphone.
    a virtual sermon-writing program for pairs of laypeople
    August 9, 2023 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • A Black woman wearing headphones smiles and sings, holding a tablet or iPad.
    Imagine web access to UU hymns that you can search for and confidently use in multiplatform events....
    August 2, 2023 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • A pale background with pink flowers, the UUA logo, and the words "Flower Ceremony Centennial, 1923-2023"
    Celebrate 100 Years of the Flower Ceremony! The first Flower Ceremony was held in Prague, in June 2023, led by Rev. Norbert Čapek.
    Leader Resource | By Erika Hewitt | January 17, 2023 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Flower Communion, Unitarianism, Worship Tips
  • Holding a music binder and gesturing, Paul Vasile leads a group in singing
    A song-centered live webinar.
    December 6, 2022 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • Inside a church, Black people stand as if listening to a preacher or choir.
    If you’re trying to build a worship service that's anti-racist and decenters whiteness, you start in one spot.
    Leader Resource | By JeKaren Olaoya, Erika Hewitt | September 2, 2022 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: #WidenTheCircle, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Anti-Oppression, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Leadership, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Unitarian Universalism, Worship Tips
  • An altar with a lit candle, crowded by jars of herbs and flowers and other ritual objects
    Worship is relational and even transformational, but it's not informational.
    Leader Resource | August 4, 2022 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • A ceramic mug of coffee sits on a table next to an open laptop, showing many people in Zoom cells.
    If you're a worship leader seeking a full-length service to share with your congregation, we hope you find the following list helpful....
    Leader Resource | February 7, 2022 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • dictionary page with entry for "copyright" highlighted in yellow
    In early 2022, various UUA pages addressing different aspects of copyright—particularly copyright issues in worship—were removed to shift focus to our new Copyright Primer for Congregations. Please visit that page to learn more.
    Leader Resource | January 20, 2022 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • A wash of green, blue, and purple light blending together.
    Church is for helping people stay human in the face of inhumane circumstances.
    Audio Recording | By Erika Hewitt, Elizabeth Stevens | August 2, 2021 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Disaster or Crisis, Presence, Self-Care, Trauma, Worship Tips
  • In the background, a group of Black people stand on a church chancel. In the foreground, from behind, a black person stands in their pew with arms raised in a "praise" position.
    When we learn to dismantle the markers and habits of white supremacy in our worship life, we get free together.
    Leader Resource | By Erika Hewitt, Julica Hermann de la Fuente | July 30, 2021 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Oppression, Equity, Justice, Worship Tips
  • In a dark space, a laptop compiuter is open about forty-five degrees and emits a wash of colored light.
    Mini-webinars explaining the liturgical and technological ways to create sensory-rich Zoom worship services.
    July 14, 2020 | From WorshipLab
  • A woman wearing headphones sits at a laptop, gesturing with both hands at someone (not visible) on the screen.
    Sometimes circumstances call for special material—and the current pandemic is one such circumstance. We're grateful to the people here who have written and shared worship resources for worship in the time of Covid-19. New!...
    March 26, 2020 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19