CONGREGATIONAL LIFE
What ritual do almost all of our congregations engage in toward the beginning of worship?
What is lighting a chalice?
In 1825, what city was the American Unitarian Association established?
What is Boston?
This Unitarian educator said, "Each night a child is born is a holy night." Each night a child is born is a holy night—a time for singing, a time for wondering, and a time for worshipping.
Who is Sophia Lyon Fahs?
Roots hold me close; wings set me free.
What is Spirit of Life?
Director of the highest-grossing film of 2023 who grew up Unitarian Universalist.
Who is Greta Gerwig?
The name of the promises members make to each other on how they will be with one another.
What is a covenant?
Which religious tradition did both Unitarianism and Universalism belong to before merging modern Unitarian Universalism?
What is Christianity?
In 1957, this Unitarian published How the Grinch Stole Christmas, in which he taught the “true” meaning of Christmas.
Who is Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel?
Sun my sail and moon my rudder as I ply the starry sea,
Leaning over the edge in wonder, casting questions into the deep.
What is Blue Boat Home?
The Universalist nurse who founded the American Red Cross in 1881?
Who is Clara Barton?
An annual ritual that began in Prague by Norbert Chapek celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community.
What is Flower Communion?
Whose vessel called the Hand in Hand became trapped on a sand bar in Good Luck, New Jersey, leading to the first Universalist sermon preached in America?
Who is John Murray?
The publication of _____changed the celebration of Christmas into what we think of as traditional today: an occasion to give to those less fortunate and to gather family and friends around laden dinner tables and Christmas trees filled with lights, decorations, and toys.
What is A Christmas Carol?
If you cannot sing like angels,
if you cannot speak before thousands,
you can give from deep within you.
You can change the world with your love.
What is Love Will Guide Us?
This longtime fighter for Women's Suffrage, who practiced an early form of nonviolent resistance by submitting to arrest after attempting to vote in 1872, is probably the best-known American activist for her cause of the nineteenth century. Who was this Unitarian pioneer for women's rights?
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
A ceremony that celebrates the birth or adoption of a child. It is a time for welcoming our children into the world, family, and the congregational community.
What is a child dedication?
Who preached a famous sermon in 1819 putting forth the following three claims (1) that Jesus might solely be human, not God; (2) the Bible might not be the inerrant (mistake-free) word of God; (3) the Trinity is NOT biblical as there is no mention of the “trinity” anywhere in the Bible? (Hint: And is known as the father of Unitarianism?)
Who is William Ellery Channing?
A German immigrant and radical Unitarian minister named Charles Follen introduced this decorating tradition to America.
What is the Christmas Tree?
Listen more often to things than to beings,
listen more often to things than to beings,
What is Breaths?
Author of Little Women, advocate of abolition, women’s rights, and temperance. The youth have visited her grave and home.
Who is Louisa May Alcott?
Individual congregations within the Unitarian Universalist Association have the freedom to make their own decisions about church governance and the direction of their own congregation. What is this non-hierarchical policy called?
What is congregational polity?
Sixteenth-century European heretic who was burned at the stake for his beliefs?
Who is Michael Servetus?
Unitarian Edmund Hamilton Sears wrote this Christmas carol that does not focus on Bethlehem but on his own time and on the ever-contemporary issue of war and peace.
What is It Came Upon a Midnight Clear?
All the colors, yes, the colors we see in the springtime with all of its flowers.
All the colors, when the sunlight shines out through a rift in the cloud and it showers.
What is De Colores?
Which Unitarian Universalist actor and member of a NJ congregation starred in Brooklyn Nine-Nine died in December 2023?
Who is Andre Braugher?