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Welcome to an escape room in a book. You are challenged to find your way through this book by deciphering codes and solving puzzles. The pages are not in a sequential order and the only way to find your way through from beginning to end is to follow the clues and solve the puzzles

We are welcoming congregations. We say so on our church buildings, on our banners, in our sermons, and on our websites but does that message really ring true for visitors and newcomers to our faith and our worship services? Sometimes the building and the things and people inside that building can send a different message. What happens to a guest after they step inside is as important to the practice of hospitality as is the initial welcome. To...

Playing cards can be used for more than just games. Every deck is full of symbolism. Each number, suit, and personality can represent something unique and can be used, with your imagination, to help you find answers to your questions. This is not magic or carnival trickery. Playing cards are just symbols and images that can be used to unlock your unconscious and help you see things in a new way. This book will reveal the characteristics of all...

Ten easy to produce and perform plays designed to be used as part of intergenerational worship services which bring to life important lessons about being together in community.

The Langer Deck is an original oracle deck that combines all 54 standard playing cards with traditional images used by the Lenormand oracle deck. Additional images have been added. This book is a complete guide to the use of this deck.

An interstellar Do Not Disturb sign, a smartwatch that may be a little too smart, love found in a silent meditation retreat, two former circus clowns enter a boxing ring, and an entire conversation with only three words are just some of the humorous and dramatic situations found in this third collection of ten-minute plays. Each one is designed to be produced with just a few actors, a few props, and within one or two simple settings. They are ...

In our lives we are often too quick to look for lines that divide the "this" from the "that" but the world we live in does not recognize such clear distinctions. Life and nature exist within a spectrum of complexity rather than in carefully labeled boxes. Science, nature, and spirituality are not pursuits of understanding with contrasting viewpoints and objectives. Each looks at a different aspect of the spectrum of complexity that is the univ...

The church was once the place where great art was commissioned, performed, and displayed but Unitarian Universalist churches grew out of the Reformation. The Protestants wanted simple services with little embellishment and that was the tradition the Puritans brought to America. That tradition influenced UU liturgy well into the twentieth century but the times they are a-changin'. While reason may have been the driving force in the formation of...

A collection of original prayers, chants, litanies, mantras, and affirmations that can be helpful and useful to people of any kind of personal or group spiritual practice.

Ken Langer has spent much of his adult life singing in or directing Unitarian-Universalist choirs. During that time he also composed new music for U-U choral groups that could be used as part of a service or a musical performance. His music ranges from simple to complex and from whimsical to worldly. It incorporates ideas from many cultures and influences and is made to meet the unique needs of U-U music programs.

Characters search for a conflict, upset audience members disrupt the show, a spy mission goes wrong, cowboys try but can't do a simple shootout correctly, and a considerate and mannerly thief asks permission before he robs people. These are some of the situations found in this collection of ten-minute plays. Here are delightful theatrical nuggets that range from the comical to the serious. Each one is designed to be produced with just a few ac...

Comedy is how we cope with the absurdity of life. The person who cannot step back and see how ludicrous are most of the things we encounter in life is the person who gets mired and engulfed in them. Comedy lets us step back and see the whole picture. It reminds us of what is really important which certainly includes laughing and laughing often.These four comedies each take on several situations but exaggerate them until they become enlarged an...

The important questions of life can haunt us-especially if we try to avoid them-but working to answer them provides richness and meaning in our lives. It is possible to live a life with purpose, a life aligned with nature and all living beings, a life that benefits ourselves and those we love, and it is possible to do all these things regardless of spiritual tradition or practice. Religion, relationships, information, and insights are all tool...

Turn off the virtual and return to the actual. In a world of virtual reality, virtual friends, and digital anonymity, there are still those who enjoy playing real games with real people. No matter how complex a video game may be there is no substitute for face-to-face interaction with friends around a table full of fun and playful game elements. And there is nothing more iconic to tabletop games than dice: plain dice, colorful dice, tiny dice ...

There are a lot of games that use a few dice but few games that use a lot of dice. Grabbing a big handful of dice and throwing them on a table, however, is a great deal of fun and the games in this book let you do just that. You can buy a set of forty dice at most game and toy stores and now you can use those forty brightly colored cubes to play a great many fun and engaging games together. This book and a few inexpensive items are all you nee...

Rounds and canons are imitative forms of music that are easy for singing groups to learn because there is mostly only one line of music to be learned. They are fun to perform and to hear because they form both melody and harmony with just a small amount of material. This book contains over fifty musical rounds and canons. Some have been adapted from public domain works of other composers while others are original works. All of the pieces have ...

What if the world was filled with ministers?people who cared about the well-being and wholeness of others? To minister is to attend to the needs of others and there are many great people who have committed their lives to that mission but not everyone is able to dedicate themselves to becoming a professional minister. Some choose to help others as a lay minister or non-professional caregiver. This text serves as a guide for training and support...

Stagehands argue about their relationship between acts, a mountain climber struggles to rise above the summit of public opinion, the man once sent to kill a princess finds her working at a diner, retired superheroes lament their new life, and a villain threatens to blow up the world if he can get the Henchman Union to end contract negotiations. These are some of the situations found in this second collection of ten-minute plays. Each one is de...

A Theory For All Music describes ways to more deeply understand the music of all cultures and traditions through the study and use of musical parameters. Book Four applies the tools developed in all three previous books and uses them to make a complete analysis of music from different historical periods as well as from contemporary music and music from other cultures.

A brilliant but erratic engineer is nearly torn to pieces by sabotaged drilling equipment. A simple act of defiance against the oppressive Conglomerate becomes a call to revolution. Families are torn apart and sent to prison work camps by a paranoid governmental leader. These are the challenges facing the people of the once idyllic but now devastated planet of Pa'Kevutu. The crew of the first explorer sunship, the Constantia, are sent on a con...