This document describes the lifespan religious exploration program at the Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church. It emphasizes religious exploration across all ages to support spiritual growth, ethical development, Unitarian Universalist identity and faith development. The program is guided by UUA values of justice, equity and compassion and encourages a free and responsible search for truth through multigenerational and age-specific learning opportunities focused on principles, sources and taking faith into action.
Dr. Gerald Stokka - Stewardship: A Philosophy of Life, Culture and BusinessJohn Blue
Stewardship: A Philosophy of Life, Culture and Business - Dr. Gerald Stokka, North Dakota State University, from the 2014 Iowa Cattle Industry Convention, December 8 - 10, 2014, Des Moines IA, USA
More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2014-iowa-cattle-industry-convention
Dr. Gerald Stokka - Stewardship: A Philosophy of Life, Culture and BusinessJohn Blue
Stewardship: A Philosophy of Life, Culture and Business - Dr. Gerald Stokka, North Dakota State University, from the 2014 Iowa Cattle Industry Convention, December 8 - 10, 2014, Des Moines IA, USA
More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2014-iowa-cattle-industry-convention
Trinity Kings Family Leadership: The Kiski School's Values, Mission, & Vision...Terrell Patillo
2 Corinthians 13:1
This is the third time I am coming to visit you (and as the Scriptures say, "The facts of every case must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses").
The Ladder of Divine Ascent was written in the seventh century by John Climacus, an abbot of St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Mt. Sinai in the deserts of Egypt, which still houses monks to this very day. Tradition holds that it is built on Mt Horeb where Moses encountered the burning bush and later received the Ten Commandments. St Catherine’s monastery is the oldest continually occupied monastery in the world. The buildings of the monastery are surrounded by fortress walls built by Emperor Justinian. They preserve an ancient letter of protection from Mohammed himself, guaranteeing their safety.
St John Climacus composed the Ladder of Divine Ascent, a guidebook for beginning monks on how to live the monastic life. The Ladder of Divine Ascent consists of thirty rungs, one for each year of the life of Jesus before he started His ministry on Earth. This is not a book to sample, skim or skip through, or to criticize. If you do not want to lead a godly life, or repent and begin your life anew, if you do not want to lead a life of daily repentance, it would be better for you to put the book back and not even crack the binding.
Do not think that just because you are not a monastic that you cannot climb the ladder. Leading a godly life, leading a Christian life, is a monastic calling, whether you decide to become a monk or nun or not. Marriage, work, career, school, child rearing, these are all monastic callings. If you think only of yourself and your selfish pleasures of the moment, you cannot successfully climb any of these ladders.
St John Climacus joined the community at St Catherine’s monastery, located in the mountains of the Sinai desert.
See our blog: http://www.seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/st-john-climacus-first-step-on-the-ladder-of-divine-ascent/
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Ascending the Heights: A Layman's Guide to The Ladder of Divine Ascent Paperback, by Fr. John Mack
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Thirty Steps to Heaven Paperback, by Vassilios Papavassiliou
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The Path of Christianity: The First Thousand Years Hardcover, by John Anthony McGuckin
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YouTube video, published 8/3/2021, 2 PM: https://youtu.be/Fco0W3bt5GA
What is the Marriage Blessing? It's a chance to re-affirm your marriage vows, make a new start and gain God's blessing. To compliment the Marriage Blessing, we run relationship courses and marriage enrichment seminars. This is an overview of what it's all about.
GOALS AND BENCHMARKS OF THE REFLECTION YEARЮрій Шеляженко
Asserting the Greatest Value of Human and thus fulfilling the will of God, in the Reflection Year the religious community of Believers in the Greatest Value of Human (www.ludstvo.org.ua) suggests that the believers pursued the following goals and benchmarks: protection of individuality, brainstorming, personal development, open culture, and overcoming of poverty.
Promote International Voluntary Work and Intercultural and Interreligious Dia...Miguel Cano
This book presents a proposal for ethical education for peace that includes a character and heart education, and a civic and intercultural education, to be taught in the family, school and society.
What is clear is that a superficial education of democratic values is not enough to solve the current crisis of values and solve the problems of individual, family and social moral degradation that paradoxically affect more to democratic advanced nations.
Rather, it would require a genuine silent revolution that will bring people to a moral maturity, form healthy families, and create communities and nations that live in peace and harmony.
Trinity Kings Family Leadership: The Kiski School's Values, Mission, & Vision...Terrell Patillo
2 Corinthians 13:1
This is the third time I am coming to visit you (and as the Scriptures say, "The facts of every case must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses").
The Ladder of Divine Ascent was written in the seventh century by John Climacus, an abbot of St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Mt. Sinai in the deserts of Egypt, which still houses monks to this very day. Tradition holds that it is built on Mt Horeb where Moses encountered the burning bush and later received the Ten Commandments. St Catherine’s monastery is the oldest continually occupied monastery in the world. The buildings of the monastery are surrounded by fortress walls built by Emperor Justinian. They preserve an ancient letter of protection from Mohammed himself, guaranteeing their safety.
St John Climacus composed the Ladder of Divine Ascent, a guidebook for beginning monks on how to live the monastic life. The Ladder of Divine Ascent consists of thirty rungs, one for each year of the life of Jesus before he started His ministry on Earth. This is not a book to sample, skim or skip through, or to criticize. If you do not want to lead a godly life, or repent and begin your life anew, if you do not want to lead a life of daily repentance, it would be better for you to put the book back and not even crack the binding.
Do not think that just because you are not a monastic that you cannot climb the ladder. Leading a godly life, leading a Christian life, is a monastic calling, whether you decide to become a monk or nun or not. Marriage, work, career, school, child rearing, these are all monastic callings. If you think only of yourself and your selfish pleasures of the moment, you cannot successfully climb any of these ladders.
St John Climacus joined the community at St Catherine’s monastery, located in the mountains of the Sinai desert.
See our blog: http://www.seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/st-john-climacus-first-step-on-the-ladder-of-divine-ascent/
Purchase from Amazon, we receive a small commission:
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Classics of Western Spirituality)
https://amzn.to/3jMLomA
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Blue Hardcover
https://amzn.to/3iLgPyl
Ascending the Heights: A Layman's Guide to The Ladder of Divine Ascent Paperback, by Fr. John Mack
https://amzn.to/3zstAUv
Thirty Steps to Heaven Paperback, by Vassilios Papavassiliou
https://amzn.to/2Y5P0ZM
The Path of Christianity: The First Thousand Years Hardcover, by John Anthony McGuckin
https://amzn.to/2UHXMeW
YouTube video, published 8/3/2021, 2 PM: https://youtu.be/Fco0W3bt5GA
What is the Marriage Blessing? It's a chance to re-affirm your marriage vows, make a new start and gain God's blessing. To compliment the Marriage Blessing, we run relationship courses and marriage enrichment seminars. This is an overview of what it's all about.
GOALS AND BENCHMARKS OF THE REFLECTION YEARЮрій Шеляженко
Asserting the Greatest Value of Human and thus fulfilling the will of God, in the Reflection Year the religious community of Believers in the Greatest Value of Human (www.ludstvo.org.ua) suggests that the believers pursued the following goals and benchmarks: protection of individuality, brainstorming, personal development, open culture, and overcoming of poverty.
Promote International Voluntary Work and Intercultural and Interreligious Dia...Miguel Cano
This book presents a proposal for ethical education for peace that includes a character and heart education, and a civic and intercultural education, to be taught in the family, school and society.
What is clear is that a superficial education of democratic values is not enough to solve the current crisis of values and solve the problems of individual, family and social moral degradation that paradoxically affect more to democratic advanced nations.
Rather, it would require a genuine silent revolution that will bring people to a moral maturity, form healthy families, and create communities and nations that live in peace and harmony.
[En] How State of the Art Media Monitoring and Analysis Work As Part of Commu...Akio
European communication Summit - Spotter Conference - How State of the Art Media Monitoring and Analysis Work As Part of Communications and Reputation Management Strategy? - Brussels, 4 & 5 July 2012.
http://spotter.com/
Slide presentation for the second session of MIdAmerica-UUA's online course on Youth & Young Adult Ministries. This session was about Early Adolescence.
Our deck of research from our Below the Surface event exploring the deeper implications of current research on the changing landscape of religion in America.
A Presentation by
Snawer Gill
MS-Scholar
This Presentation consists; LaSallian Heritage, LaSallian Values and 12 Virtues of a Good Teachers.
Dedicated to all my Students and fellow LaSallians.
Pope Francis wrote and released his document on the family in 2016 during the Year of Mercy. This presentation gathers together Francis' comments on the reality, positive and negative influences and possibilities of entertainment ad information media and technologies on and for the family. Within the context of family values found in the Gospels this presentation describes media mindfulness as a faith-based response to our mediated world.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
HANUMAN STORIES: TIMELESS TEACHINGS FOR TODAY’S WORLDLearnyoga
Hanuman Stories: Timeless Teachings for Today’s World" delves into the inspiring tales of Hanuman, highlighting lessons of devotion, strength, and selfless service that resonate in modern life. These stories illustrate how Hanuman's unwavering faith and courage can guide us through challenges and foster resilience. Through these timeless narratives, readers can find profound wisdom to apply in their daily lives.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
Exploring the Mindfulness Understanding Its Benefits.pptxMartaLoveguard
Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness, defined as the conscious, non-judgmental observation of the present moment, has deep roots in Buddhist meditation practice but has gained significant popularity in the Western world in recent years. In today's society, filled with distractions and constant stimuli, mindfulness offers a valuable tool for regaining inner peace and reconnecting with our true selves. By cultivating mindfulness, we can develop a heightened awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings, leading to a greater sense of clarity and presence in our daily lives.
Slide 3: Benefits of Mindfulness for Mental Well-being
Practicing mindfulness can help reduce stress and anxiety levels, improving overall quality of life.
Mindfulness increases awareness of our emotions and teaches us to manage them better, leading to improved mood.
Regular mindfulness practice can improve our ability to concentrate and focus our attention on the present moment.
Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
Research has shown that practicing mindfulness can contribute to lowering blood pressure, which is beneficial for heart health.
Regular meditation and mindfulness practice can strengthen the immune system, aiding the body in fighting infections.
Mindfulness may help reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity by reducing stress and improving overall lifestyle habits.
Slide 5: Impact of Mindfulness on Relationships
Mindfulness can help us better understand others and improve communication, leading to healthier relationships.
By focusing on the present moment and being fully attentive, mindfulness helps build stronger and more authentic connections with others.
Mindfulness teaches us how to be present for others in difficult times, leading to increased compassion and understanding.
Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
Focusing on the breath and mindful breathing can be a simple way to enter a state of mindfulness.
Body scan meditation involves focusing on different parts of the body, paying attention to any sensations and feelings.
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Regular mindfulness practice can help achieve a fuller and more satisfying life.
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The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
2. We light our chalice in celebration of our communitA
And its commitDent to religious ex<loration.
May our ritHal of enlightenment be a reminder
that just as our chalice must be lit again and again,
So must our commitDent to religious ex<loration
Be renewed again and again if our light is to be shared
And our faith is to be sustained and ex<anded.
3. Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church offers lifespan religious
education prog>amming that holds parNicipants in love,
igOites their passion for justice, and helps them to know more
deeply the diversitA and wholeness of our Unitarian
Universalist faith.
We intentionally have come to call what we do here “religious
ex<loration” to liſt up the imporNance we place on an
individual search for t>Hth and meaning in a supporNive
communitA of connection.
4. Our Values Guide Us-‐ We AffirD and Promote:
v The inherent worNh and digOitA of everA person
§ Respect all people; they have digOitA & worNh too
v Justice, equitA and compassion in human relations
§ Offer fair and kind t>eatDent to everAone
v Acceptance of one another and encouragement to
spiritHal g>owth in our cong>egations
§ Young & old, g>owing together in communitA-‐
all through our lives
v A ^ee and responsible search for t>Hth and meaning
§ Grow by searching for your own t>Hth and meaning
5. Our Values Guide Us-‐ We AffirD and Promote:
v The right of conscience and the use of the democratic
process within our cong>egations and in societA at large
§ Believe in your ideals and voice your vote
v The goal of world communitA with peace, liberNA
and justice for all
§ Insist on justice, ^eedom, and peace for all
v Respect for the interdependent web of all existence
of which we are a parN
§ Value the earNh, our home, and the web of life
6. Our Tradition Draws From Many Sources
v The sense of wonder we all share
v Women and men, long ago and today — people
whose lives remind us to be kind and fair
v Wisdom ^om the world's religions
v Christian and Jewish teachings which tell us to
love all others as we love ourselves
v Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the
gHidance of reason and the results of science
v EarNh-‐centered t>aditions which celebrate the circle
of life, inspiring us to live in harDony with natHre
7. Our Vision
Building a loving, respectfHl communitA and
supporNing the search for t>Hth and meaning
across the lifespan.
8. UUA Lifespan RE Vision Statement
We envision children, youth and adults who:
• Know that they are lovable beings of infinite worNh, imbued
with powers of the soul, and obligated to use their giſts,
talents, and potentials in the sergice of life;
• AffirD that they are parN of a Unitarian Universalist religious
heritage and communitA of faith that has value and provides
resources for living;
• Accept that they are responsible for the stewardship and
creative t>ansforDation of their religious heritage and
communitA of faith;
9. UUA Lifespan RE Vision Statement
• Realize that they are moral agents, capable of making a
difference in the lives of other people, challenging st>HctHres of
social and political oppression, promoting the health and well-‐
being of the planet, acting in the sergice of diversitA, justice,
and compassion;
• RecogOize the need for communitA, affirDing the imporNance
of families, relationships and connections betieen and among
the generations;
• Appreciate the value of spiritHal practice as a means of
deepening faith and integ>ating beliefs and values with
everAday life;
• Ex<erience hope, joy, mysterA, healing, and personal
t>ansforDation in the midst of life’s challenges.
10. Why are we here?
To supporN and nurNHre each other throughout
our individual faith development jourOeys
12. v What is my faith and how do I live it?
v What is Unitarian Universalism?
v How do I deal with “the big questions”?
v How do I deal with religious ex<eriences?
v How do I develop spiritHalitA?
v How do I fit into this communitA?
v How do we encourage diversitA?
13. v How am I different –How are we the same?
v What responsibilities do I have to the
interdependent web?
v How do I develop my social conscience?
v What role does sexHalitA play in my life?
v How do my values affect my spiritHalitA?
14. What does the Lifespan RE Cur>icula include?
— Views the whole church as the cur>iculum
— Focuses on our principles and sources
— RecogOizes the power of learOing through stories and
the imporNance of supporNing learOing with activitA
— Liſts up faith in action through social justice
— Provides age-‐level appropriate ex<eriences
— RecogOizes the imporNance of both multigenerational
and generationally specific opporNHnities
15. Lifespan Religious Ex<loration St>ives Toward…
— NurNHring the four foundations of a meaningoHl,
relevant and vibrant faith:
v Unitarian Universalist IdentitA
LearOing about our UU heritage of t>Hth, love, and justice; Understanding our
principles and sources; Being able to ex<lain our beliefs and faith to others
v Ethical Development
Making the world a beper place by living our values. Being in right relationship
with each other, the larger communitA, and the earNh
v SpiritHal Growth
Sensing a connection to something larger than ourselves through worship, prayer
and meditation; Ex<loring the wisdom of the world’s religions
v Faith Development
Finding deeper meaning and pur<ose in life; Ex<loring personal beliefs and
values within a faith contexN
16. Lifespan Religious Ex<loration Liſts Up:
v Stewardship
v Social Justice and Human rights
v ResponsibilitA and Caring
v SpiritHalitA and Faith
v Integ>itA, Ethics, and Values
v Moral Courage
v Traditions
17. What does our Lifespan RE Cur>icula include?
— Enrichment
v Special Events and Sergice OpporNHnities
v OWL SexHalitA Education Prog>am
v Interest Groups
v Choirs
v Chalice Circles
v Open Campus Evening Prog>am
18. What goes on in RE for Children and Youth?
— Develops communitA responsibilitA through
covenanting with other g>oup members
— Mir>ors the ex<erience of the Sunday Sergice
v Chalice Lighting
v Sharing Circle ( Joys and ConcerOs)
v Offering
v Music
v Cur>iculum content serges a similar role to the
minister’s serDon
19. v RE supporNs families in developing the ethical
and spiritHal g>owth of our children.
v RE provides a safe, supporNive environment
v Families make connections betieen home and RE
v Families are present and involved
v Together we practice tio-‐way communication
RE for Children and Youth is a ParNOership
20. Volunteer OpporNHnities for Adults
— ParNicipation on CYRE Leadership Teams
— CYRE Room Helpers
— Youth Group Advisors
— Coming of Age Mentors for Youth
— MysterA Friends
— Open Campus Class Leaders
— Serge on RE Commipee
— Serge on Adult RE Team
21. Looking Toward the FutHre, We Envision
— A communitA of lifelong learOers that affirDs the
imporNance of individuals, families, relationships and
connections betieen and among generations;
— Prog>aming that is both multigenerational and
generationally specific;
— Evening RE prog>amming that appeals to and engages
our many generations;
— More opporNHnities to put our UU faith into action;
— Greater apention to learOing stAles and creativitA.