Our service on Sunday, December 24th was a special one. Gelene Grim, RE Director, planned a program that allowed the YRUU kids to share with us what they had been learning about in RE during November and December. We listened as Cody, Allena, Michael and Emily, read about the different winter celebrations around the world: Hindu Festival of Lights, Jewish Hanukkah, pagan Yule and Solstice, Christian Christmas, and African-American Kwanzaa. They also regaled us with song. First they sang their way down the aisles as they moved from the back of the sanctuary to the stage. Then there were two choral songs. After the readings, Allena and Sydney sang duets. Their beautiful young voices were angelic. Go to our website (uulongview.com) to see more pictures of our outstanding youth. A special thank-you goes to Betty and Bob for their help with the music!

The Moral Sense Test is a Web-based study sponsored by the Cognitive Evolution Laboratory at Harvard University into the nature of human moral judgment. How do human beings decide what is right and wrong? To answer this question, we have designed a series of moral dilemmas to probe the psychological mechanisms underlying our moral judgments. By presenting these dilemmas on the Web, we hope to gain insight into the similarities and differences between the moral judgments of people of different ages, from different cultures, with different educational backgrounds and religious beliefs, involved in different occupations and exposed to very different circumstances.

There are currently no published results from this test, but as results are published they will be posted on the MST website.

We are always looking for new subjects for the Moral Sense Test, so please spread the word! The address of our home page is http://moral.wjh.harvard.edu/

Please be careful not to discuss the specific questions on the test, or to bias future subjects in any way.

We also encourage you to visit these other exciting online research projects:

- The Music Universals Study, a study of the perception of music among different cultures. The address of the Music Universals Study is music.media.mit.edu.

- The Mind Survey, a study of the way that we understand and perceive minds. The address of the Mind Survey is mind.wjh.harvard.edu.

- Project Implicit, a study of conscious and unconscious preferences for everything from pets to politics. The address of Project Implicit is implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/.

- Face Research, an audiovisual test of how we perceive speech. The address of Face Research is harvard-cogevlab.org/audiovisual/audiovisual.html.

How do you live the Seven Principles? What circumstances do you experience that bring them to mind? Are some easier than others for you? Is there something the UU principles do not address that is important to you?

The following is a review of the principles with questions to guide you into self-reflection developed by Joanne Giannino, DRE, First Parish, Bridgewater, MA.

As Unitarian Universalists, we affirm and promote:

1. The worth and dignity of every person.

Did you greet a new person in church this year? a child? youth? adult?

Did you learn someone's name?

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