01-15-2017
11:14 am - 12:15 pm
Family Ministry Office


Love in Action

 

This session lifts up Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who returned again and again to the South to lead more than 300 slaves to freedom. We focus on the second Unitarian Universalist Source, “Words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love,” expressed in children’s language as “The women and men of long ago and today whose lives remind us to be kind and fair.”

Take Home:

Discuss as a family group who some prophetic men and women are in your family history. How do these people create a legacy of love? Take turns talking about what it means to be prophetic and how/if/why this can be difficult in our world.

Research U.S. slavery and the abolition movement. There are many good children’s books about the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman. Learn about escaped slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Read a Tapestry of Faith story about the dramatic

Escape of Ellen and William Craft in the 1850s. Find out together about the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and President Abraham Lincoln. The American Girl Addy book series uses historical fiction to detail the life of a slave girl who escapes to freedom and experiences challenges in her new life in the North.

 

Check it out: Session 15