The purpose of Riddle and Mystery is to assist Youth in their own search for understanding. Each of the 16 sessions introduces and processes a Big Question. The first three echo Paul Gauguin’s famous triptych: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? The next ten, including Does God exist? and What happens when you die?, could be found on almost anyone’s list of basic life inquiries. The final three are increasingly Unitarian Universalist: Can we ever solve life’s mystery? How can I know what to believe? What does Unitarian Universalism mean to me?
Riddle and Mystery also aims to:
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Riddle and Mystery also aims to:
- Teach participants to accept, appreciate and celebrate mystery, ambiguity and contradiction as part of human life and the starting points of religion
- Explore Unitarian Universalist (and other Faith's) responses to big questions
- Foster participants own personal, spiritual responses to big questions
- Demonstrate the importance of questioning thought to Unitarian Universalist faith and its value in personal and communal life
- Guide participants to develop and practice the skill of abstract thought.
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