Learning
What Moves Us – Monthly Online Workshop Beings September 2024
Interested in a monthly workshop to explore Unitarian Universalist thought while reflecting on our personal beliefs and the feelings or events that helped shape them? Adapted from a UU curriculum, “What Moves Us” will draw on the life experiences of ten Unitarians and Universalists, past and present, that brought them a change of heart, hope, or direction. We’ll meet on Zoom the second Sunday of each month, September through June, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Please see the .pdf below or What Moves Us for details. Email WhatMovesUs@jruuc.org to sign up or ask questions.
– from Rhonda Brodbeck, Sarah Cook, and Mary Pitassi – August 2024
What We Offer Through the Lifespan
We provide children, youth, young adults, and adults an opportunity to explore, reflect, and learn in a nurturing spiritual community. Unitarian Universalist religious education programs offer all ages, inspiring:
- Ethical growth – internalizing enduring values like justice, equity, and compassion, and gaining tools to act on them in everyday life.
- Social growth – connecting with peers and people of all ages on a deeper level. Finding acceptance among people who see beyond the superficial.
- Spiritual growth – feeling a connection with the sacred within, among, and beyond us.
Religious education programs include more than classes. On a Sunday you might find the preschoolers singing songs about kindness, the 2nd graders engaging with a story about loss and bereavement, the 5th graders talking with a Muslim couple about Islam, the 7th graders learning about responsibility in a lesson from our progressive sexuality education program, and the high-school youth raising money for the local homeless shelter. Many programs incorporate social justice activities, worship opportunities, service trips, fellowship, and fun.
Our religious educator and minister lead many of our congregations’ lifespan programs. Parents and other members of the congregation often lead them, too. Teaching can be a very fulfilling way to deepen one’s own faith.
Children’s and youth religious education programs are typically offered on Sunday mornings. Adult programs are usually offered on evenings or weekends.
We invite you to explore these pages and contact our religious educator to get connected.