2008 and 2007

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Challenging Faiths Submitted by Allison Gammons, West Hills UU Fellowship, Portland, OR. This is a youth-geared 30, one-hour long session which encourages youth leadership and examines both Western and Eastern faiths. This overview of religion (relations between and mutual influences that have shaped many faiths, and historical events that have had influence over the roots of belief) is used to frame the development and questioning of the participants beliefs while equipping them with an understanding of a few of the varied ways faith and belief take root in the world. Amount Granted: $1,300

Keepers of the Earth Supplement Submitted by Dawn Star Borchelt, CRE; Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church, MD. This supplement supports UU religious educators to make use of Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children (Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac) in a summer or regular RE class setting. The supplement is UU seventh principle-based, uses a multi-sensory approach with an anti-oppressive lens. www.dmuuc.org/curriculum/keepers-of-the-earth.htmlAmount Granted: $1,120

Digital Archive of out-of-print curricula Submitted by Jamie Gross, First Unitarian Church of Alton, Alton, IL This project will collect and digitally store out-of-print UU curricula to be used as a virtual lending library to congregations and organizations, both, to preserve a portion of the history of UU religious education materials, and to make available historical reference material. This project will be available on line through the First Unitarian Church of Alton. Amount Granted: $3,000

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LREDA Multigenerational Faith Community DVD Project Submitted by Cathy Seggel and Jesse Jaeger, LREDA Board This DVD will record Building A Multigenerational Faith: Creating Wholeness in our Congregations, presentations from the 2008 LREDA Fall Conference; Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, keynote speaker; UUA Staff and other practitioners, presenters. Amount Granted: $3,000

Exploring Our Universe Submitted by Leslie Ross, First Unitarian Society of Madison, WI. 40 session curriculum; will be available on disc. Overall goal is to provide children the intellectual and spiritual space to develop a sense of their own place within the cosmic narrative of the evolution of the universe and life on Earth. Amount Granted: $3,000

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Families TUUgether Submitted by Rev. Christopher Holton Jablonski, UU Church of Berkeley. Asking for $3,000. This is a multicultural curriculum designed to compliment any Life Span RE program. It is designed to help families establish some of the crucial first relationships as they enter into a spiritual home, and to rekindle commitment and enthusiasm in families who might have drifted from active engagement. Amount Granted: $3,000

“The Theological and Cultural Antecedents of the New Beacon Series,” a dissertation by David Parke. Submitted by Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Strong and Joan White This dissertation contains valuable information about the development of Unitarian religious education from the earliest catechisms to the publication of the New Beacon series by the Unitarians in the 1930s. The book would eventually be available on Amazon.com. Amount Granted: $3,000

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Peacemaking DVD and Peacemaking Learning Guide Submitted by John B. Hooper, the UUA Commission on Social Witness Through the efforts of the Peacemaking CSAI Core team, will complete a “Peacemaking DVD” and package it with a Learning Guide. By interviews with UU activists and scholars the DVD will introduce our congregations to the contemporary challenges of sustainable and enduring peace. www.uua.org/documents/csw/csaiguide_pm06.pdf Amount Granted: $3,000

Dancing the Living Tradition: a DVD of eight Liturgical Dances Submitted by Sunsue Fleming, DRE, First Parish Duxbury, Mass. Instructional DVD of liturgical dances, meant for all ages, choreographed to music from our hymnal “Singing the Living Traditions”. www.duxburyuu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107&Itemid=151 Amount Granted: $1,750