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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 WorshipLabTagged as: WorshipWeb, Worship
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Like the free-roaming roosters of the Caribbean, no one can tell me I don’t belong.Reflection | By Raquel V. Reyes | September 25, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Character, Direct Experience, Identity, Integrity, International, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Vulnerability, Worship
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…those of us who believe in human rights for everyone; who believe in fundamentals of fairness, of equality, of equity; who believe in recognizing injustices of past, of present, and being accountable for ending them…Poetry | By Charles Thomas | September 24, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Accountability, Environment, Equity, Freedom, Justice, Nature, Peace, Rights, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Together we create a love energy more powerful than any force of oppression…Poetry | By Dayna Edwards | September 24, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: America, Community, Democracy, Faith, Hope, Love, Oppression, Politics, WorshipWeb, Worship
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This liturgy is for a ritual where the members of the congregation each bring to the service a meaningful book they would like to give away, and each member takes home a book that someone else has brought.Ritual | By Jami Yandle | September 23, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Arts & Music, Community, Education, Generosity, Imagination, Revelation, Wisdom, WorshipWeb, Worship
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This liturgy provides words for a portion of a service devoted to hymn-singing. It should be possible to combine this with many of the usual elements of a congregation’s worship service. You will need to have an accompanist who can sight-read well, and it would be helpful to have a songleader.Script | By Kristin Grassel Schmidt | September 22, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Arts & Music, Community, Creativity, Music Sunday, Playfulness, WorshipWeb, Worship
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All of us are active participants in co-creating congregational and community life.Reflection | September 18, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Accountability, Addiction/Recovery, Hospitality, Inclusion, Individualism, Responsibility, Worship
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Lead us to the love that holds us all and is with us always; the love that can help us through the messy and necessary life-altering work of building movements across beliefs, across difference, for change that can endure.Prayer | By DL Helfer | September 13, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: America, Community, Democracy, Generations, Hope, Listening, Love, Politics, Rights, Teamwork, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Ours is the work of creation. Ours is the work of inviting people into an irresistible movement, rooted in our belief that a new world is possible. And the center of our work is love, and joy, and the spirit of abundance.Prayer | By Lisa Garcia-Sampson | September 13, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: America, Community, Democracy, Generations, Hope, Joy, Justice, Love, Politics
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As we light this chalice, we kindle the spirit of the great turning: the movement for justice alive in this nation today. May we feel it in our bones, and in the stillness of this hour, may we sense it calling our name.Chalice Lighting | By Lisa Garcia-Sampson | September 13, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: America, Community, Democracy, Generations, Hope, Justice, Love, Politics, WorshipWeb, Worship
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As Unitarian Universalists, we believe democracy is more than a political system; it is a shared journey, a collective responsibility, and a profound act of faith in one another.Reading | By E. N. Hill | September 12, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: America, Community, Democracy, Generations, Hope, Love, Politics, Rights, Teamwork, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Oh Spirit of Life and Love, fortify us with the wisdom and tenacity of our ancestors to continue toward the promise in the founding documents of our nation: a nation where all of us are created as equals and are endowed with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Prayer | By Dayna Edwards | September 11, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: America, Community, Democracy, Generations, Hope, Love, Politics, Rights, Teamwork
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Our faith also gives us hope. A faith that knows that transformation is a holy and sacred task, that affirms that the democratic process is a faithful act, that brings a generous heart and a lens of justice and liberation to all that we do, that values equality and equity and is centered in love.Prayer | By Dayna Edwards | September 11, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: America, Community, Democracy, Generations, Hope, Love, Politics, Rights, Teamwork, WorshipWeb, Worship
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As we set down this work for the day, may we release with it all that has wounded us, keeping close only what has fed and enlivened our spirit... When we bless the world with our love, we are blessed in return.Blessing | By Jodi Cohen Hayashida | September 11, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #UUTheVote, America, Community, Democracy, Generations, Hope, Love, Politics, Rights, Teamwork
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In these times of fragmentation... to canvass is to choose the deeper assurance of interconnectedness and to heed the call of radical, all-embracing love.Blessing | By Jodi Cohen Hayashida | September 11, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #UUTheVote, America, Community, Democracy, Generations, Hope, Love, Politics, Rights, Teamwork, WorshipWeb, Worship
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What do you do when you’re really angry with someone and you can’t seem to let it go?Reflection | By Laura Horton-Ludwig | September 11, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Anger, Brokenness, Buddhism, Compassion, Worship
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Let our hearts be welcoming of multiple truths, not holding hard or fast to closed mindedness or judgmental thinking. What can we learn from each other in the richness of our differences?Prayer | By Julianne Lepp | September 4, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Accountability, Community, Compassion, Connections, Diversity, Interdependence, Pluralism, Wholeness, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Staying present to what’s real—our world, our hope, our stories—can help us embody our values.Reflection | By Lindasusan Ulrich | September 4, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Worship
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During your congregation’s water ceremony, UUs for Justice in the Middle East invite you to place an empty paper cup next to the congregational vessel in solidarity with Palestinians.Ritual | By Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) | August 28, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Freedom, Human Rights, Justice, Oppression, Peace, Solidarity, Trauma, War, Water Communion, WorshipWeb, Worship
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A water communion liturgy that asks that we listen for God’s voice in the waters.Ritual | By M Jade Kaiser | August 28, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Earth Day, Environment, Interdependence, Nature, Responsibility, Reverence, Water Communion, WorshipWeb, Worship
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