What's New on WorshipWeb?

NEW: Covid-19/online worship materials are available on our new WorshipLab page

Added Summer 2019

• An Awful, Magnificent Truth (a Braver/Wiser reflection) by Rev. Carol Thomas Cissel
• Claiming Our Names (a Braver/Wiser reflection) by Rev. Otto O'Connor
• The House My Ancestors Built (a Braver/Wiser reflection) by Rev. Heather Rion Starr
• So Far Apart and In This Together (a Braver/Wiser reflection) by Rev. Erica Rose Long
• Heaven Broken Open (a Braver/Wiser reflection) by Rev. Jami Yandle
• Prayer for an Online Memorial Service by Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig
• A Prayer for White People by Rev. Ellen Quaadgras
• Whiteness and "Power Over," a reading by Austin Channing Brown
• a quote by Austin Channing Brown
• "Harnessing Our Anger," a reading by Glennon Doyle
• ....and additional worship materials related to the pandemic/online worship

Go-To Resources

• Our WorshipWeb app!
• The updated Ordination and Installation Handbook
• Recommended practices (PDF) for guest preachers in UU congregations
• Our Decentering Whiteness in Worship page
• Our Black Lives Matter Collection
• Our Compassion for Refugees Collection
• Our blog post, "What You're Saying When You Say 'I Don't Need a Mic'"

Added in 2020

• Letter from Our Better Angels, by Rev. Sean Parker Dennison
• Erica Shadowsong's original retelling of the story of Icarus
• Rev. Lynn Gardner's story, Sustaining the Tree of Life
• a quote about trauma by Dr. Peter A. Levine
• a reading by the late Brian Doyle
• Circle This Flame, a ritual to mourn the fires in Australia, by Rev. Amy Brooks
• A quote about love by Rev. Carter Heyward
• Centering Myself, a reflection by Rayla Mattson for our Black Lives Matter collection
• a quote about pleasure from adrienne maree brown's Pleasure Activism
• a quote from Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd's After the Fall
• Making Room for All That Is, a prayer by Rev. Lyn Cox
• The Growing Darkness, a responsive reading by Rev. Viola Abbitt
• Thresholds by Arlen Goff
• Teachers Everywhere, a benediction by Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern
• Church, a poem by Jennifer Pratt-Walter
• We Are Called to Pay Attention, a responsive reading by Amanda Udis-Kessler
• May We Seek to Serve Life, a responsive reading by Rev. Monica Jacobson-Tennessan
• A Spacious Welcome by Rev. Shari Woodbury
• Magic Is Afoot, a meditation on worship by Rev. Karen G. Johnston
• Work in Commitment and Love, a chalice lighting for meetings by Rev. Viola Abbitt
• The Vessel of Compassion: a Water Communion story by Katie Gelfand
• Blessing for the Beginning of the Religious Education Year by Lauren Wyeth
• Invocation to the Spirit of Life (An Alternative Lord's Prayer) by Alex Jensen
• Chalice Lighting for the New Year by Rev. Lisa Doege
• Open to Awe by Rev. Shari Woodbury
• A Seed Knows How to Wait by Hope Jahren
• Deciding to Build, a reflection by Rev. Chris Rothbauer
• Prayer for the Living by Rev. Tess Baumberger
• A set of UU Hanukkah blessings by Lorenzo Bassman
• Racist or Anti-Racist, a reading by Ibram X. Kendi
• Who You Are Enriches Us All, a welcome by Rev. Monica Jacobson-Tennessan
• Chalice Lighting for an Ordination by Rev. Christian Schmidt
• It Is in Questioning That We Find Answers (a Pagan version of the St. Francis prayer) by Helen Rose
• All Animals Are Our Relatives, a chalice lighting by Rev. Florence Caplow
• A Meditation on Attention by Rev. Nancy Reid-McKee
• Invitation to Arrive and Rest by Rev. Shari Woodbury
• Love, and a Litany for Becoming, both from enfleshed