worship resources for unitarians
This list compiled by Angela Maher of Unitarian New Meeting Church, Birmingham.
World Wide Unitarians (including Britain)United Kingdom
North America
- List of urls for full length UUA sermons on the internet
Good for inspiration and for readings - obviously not to be plagiarised. - UU tracts online
Includes text of Channing's sermon Unitarian Christianity - UUA worship web
A variety of worship resources (sermons, quotes, meditations, prayers, blessings) - Canadian Unitarian Resource list
Much duplicated elsewhere, but some nice things
ICUU
- Chalice lightings
new one each month - Sermons
limited - Worship materials
for ICUU themed service - Curriculum
includes orders of service for many of the countries of the ICUU
Texts
Scripture
- Searchable online Bible
several different versions including King James and New International version - good for comparisons and also has thematic look up - Early Christian writings Links to all sorts of texts including Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Judas
- Early Jewish writings
Tanakh, Deuterocanon, Pseudepigrapha, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus - Gnostic Society Library
gnostic related texts - Koran in English translation
- Bhagavad Gita in English
- Links to Tao te Ching translations
Bartleby
- out of copyright great works
- Non-fiction
includes Cicero, Confucius, Emerson, Epictetus, Mill, Paine, Thomas a Kempis, Voltaire - Verse
includes Mystical Verse, War Poetry, Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, Frost, Hopkins, Milton, Shakespeare, Whitman - Reference
includes dictionaries of quotations
Other
- Complete works of Kahlil Gibran (out of copyright)
- Atheism related
- Works of Robert Ingersoll
- Reference desk
Extensive links to great resources - Book of Common Prayer
Plus related Anglican liturgies
Hymns
- Cyber hymnal
Words to well known hymns, plus midi files and scores for the tunes (out of copyright only)
Religions
- Essays about religious groups
Explains groups beliefs, and various positions on social issues - writers believe in religious tolerance
Prayers
- Archive of world prayers
From many religious traditions - Praying each day
De la Salle brothers prayer collection - Prayer in America
Relatively small collection from a variety of traditions - Bahai prayers
C of E
- Prayers
Topics may change - Daily prayer
From book of common prayer - An invitation to prayer
Small collection from C of E, relatively interfaith