NEW: Mini-webinars to help you elevate online worship using technology (August 2020)
Added Summer 2020
- 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
- Testimony and Truth (a Braver/Wiser reflection) by Rev. Jodi Cohen Hayashida
- Minding the Gap (a Braver/Wiser reflection) by Yuri Yamamoto
- Ground Control (a Braver/Wiser reflection) by Rev. Erika Hewitt
- 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
- The Sacred Power of Justice, a chalice lighting by Rev. Jami Yandle
- a quote by Austin Channing Brown
- "Harnessing Our Anger," a reading by Glennon Doyle
- Until "All" Means All, a chalice lighting by Rev. Erika Hewitt
- ....and additional worship materials related to the pandemic/online worship
- A Blessing of the Electronic Devices by Dayna Edwards
- A Blessing of the Laptops by Austen Petersen
- a quote about Advent by Rev. Jes Kast
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
