A photo of a child holding the children's book Earth Day.
Children and adults will delight in Earth Day! The wonders of nature leap from the page, reminding readers that every day is a reason to give thanks and that miracles are as simple as ABC. Ages 3+. Available wherever books are sold and at shopinspirit.org.
What will it take for diverse leadership within Unitarian Universalism to truly thrive and contribute to a radiant and inclusive future? In Seeds of a New Way, editors Manish Mishra-Marzetti and Nancy McDonald Ladd and contributors explore how to foster diverse leadership within congregations.
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New resource alert! We now have a discussion guide for Seeds of a New Way—complete with videos and questions—available on LeaderLab. Many thanks to the editors and contributors for creating this important resource. You can find the guide at: www.uua.org/leaderlab/seeds-discussion-guide
Tree Lessons Suspended between the breath of God and the cool dark Earth body, roots and rings no separation, between time and space. Reaching out gathering powers lightning and fire trickle and storm breath and resistance firm, solid shifts no separation between earth and sky. Connecting to infinite networks stars and saplings suckling on bodies of old ones fallen sustenance and decay no separation between life and death. —Rev. Sean Parker Dennison Breaking and Blessing: Meditations
Tree Lessons
Reaching out
gathering powers
lightning and fire
trickle and storm
breath and resistance
firm, solid shifts
no separation
between earth and sky.
—Rev. Sean Parker Dennison
Breaking and Blessing: Meditations
A photo of Held next to some ivy leaves and a white crocus.
In Held, community minister and mental health advocate Rev. Meyers illustrates how members of liberal religious congregations can be supportive to those living with mental health problems, and their loved ones, in our congregations and society at large. Available wherever books are sold!
The audiobook of Love You, Bye playing on a cell phone.
Our newest title, Love You, Bye by award-winning essayist, poet, and teacher Brenda Miller is now available as an audiobook. Get your copy today from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!
The book Conversations with the Sacred next to some white flowers.
Bringing alive the heartfelt words and artwork contributed by creators diverse in spiritual perspective and identity, Conversations with the Sacred is a moving testimony to the power of prayer. Available wherever books are sold and from shopinspirit.org.
An event graphic that has a photo of the book Love You, Bye next to a photo of author Brenda Miller and her conversation partner Jane Wong. The event takes place at Third Place Books Ravenna 4/15 at 7PM.
Calling all Seattleites! Wednesday, April 15th at 7PM PT, join award-winning writer and teacher Brenda Miller at an event at Third Place Books Ravenna to celebrate the release of her new book Love You, Bye: A Daughter's Journey in Essays and Poems. She will be in conversation with writer Jane Wong.
April "The symbols of the season are all in place: The sacred sift of morning light through red-bud branches, the drift of rain-clouds sailing along the dark north sky serving as a robe for a feast day, the minarets of yellow tulips ringing the call to prayer, the young bees chanting their sunrise communion service as they sip nectar from the chalice of the narcissus flower, the newly packaged seeds and burrs reciting their Passover maggid of strange travels and quick escapes on the wind. Once again the tapestry of family dinners and the peculiar loneliness of holidays. Once again the jarring of murky world events set against the soft pastel butterflies of spring. Oh Love, the time is tender and sweet here on the earth, but the orbit of its passage is tough and jagged, filled with sorrows that silence themselves. Therefore come, Silence deeper than our speechlessness, rock us close in your silent arms for a while." Mark Belletini Sonata for Voice and Silence
April
The symbols of the season
are all in place . . .
the minarets of yellow tulips
ringing the call to prayer,
the young bees chanting their sunrise communion
service as they sip nectar
from the chalice of the narcissus flower,
Mark Belletini
Sonata for Voice and Silence
A photo of a child holding the children's book Earth Day.
Children and adults will delight in Earth Day! The wonders of nature leap from the page, reminding readers that every day is a reason to give thanks and that miracles are as simple as ABC. Ages 3+. Available wherever books are sold and at shopinspirit.org.
April 12th at 6pm at Village Books, Bellingham, WA: Reading and conversation with Dayna Patterson and Liz Vignali April 15th at 7pm at Third Place Books (Ravenna), Seattle, WA: Reading and conversation with Jane Wong April 19th from 1-3pm at Bellingham Yoga Collective: Letting Go: A Yoga and Writing Workshop April 22nd and 29th from 1-3pm at the Academy of Lifelong Learning, Bellingham, WA: “Postmarked: Modern Takes on the Ancient Art of Letters” May 2nd at 6pm at The Tattered Cover, Denver, CO: Reading and book signing June 17th 6:30-8pm Eagle Harbor Book Co, Bainbridge Island, WA: Reading and conversation with Sheila Bender June 18th, time to be announced, at Imprint Book Shop, Port Townsend, WA: Reading and conversation with Holly J. Hughes June 27th, time to be announced, at Chuckanut Writers Conference, Bellingham, WA: “The Fault Lines of Memory: Navigating Imperfect Memory in Creative Nonfiction” July 17th, time to be announced, at Bold Coffee and Books in Portland, OR: Reading and conversation with Kim Stafford
Award-winning writer and teacher Brenda Miller is going on tour to celebrate her Love You, Bye. The book is a luminous collection of essays and poems about family, faith, and the art of saying goodbye. You can see her at the following events, with more to be announced. brendamillerwriter.com/events
Two copies of the book Justice on Earth on a wooden background
Justice on Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and the Environment presents a powerful and penetrating look at environmental justice from some of the key thinkers and activists in Unitarian Universalism today. Available wherever books are sold.
The cover of Love You, Bye on a graphic that says new from Skinner House with an image of a hummingbird in the background.
It's here! It's here! We’re thrilled to announce our newest title, Love You, Bye by award-winning essayist, poet, and teacher Brenda Miller. This luminous collection of essays and poems about family, faith, and the art of saying goodbye is available to order wherever books are sold.
The audiobook of Where Two Worlds Touch playing on a cell phone.
Did you know Where Two Worlds Touch: The Spirit and Science of Alzheimer's Caregiving by Jade C. Angelica is available as an audiobook? Get your copy today from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!
Eastering Why this sadness toward spring? Half smiles at the first yellow flowers, Tears pooling for no reason with each rain and sunset? Each year this green show blows wide winter’s coverings and lets us see the swell and push of beginning again. Am I meant to rise too? To push away what leans against the door of my pinched heart? I cannot. Compassion for myself is a slow growing crop, however carefully tended it yields an unreliable harvest. These resurrections ask more than I can give every time this hurts more than the pains of my body than the old world full of sorrows this offering of love this unbearable gift of another chance. —Barbara Pescan Morning Watch
Eastering
Each year this green show
blows wide winter’s coverings and lets us see
the swell and push of beginning again.
—Barbara Pescan
Morning Watch
A graphic with an image of shelves of books and text that reads: “All people deserve to tell their stories, and all people should be able to read and learn from them.” Larisa Hohenboken, UUA Publications Editor
"All people deserve to tell their stories, and all people should be able to read and learn from them."
From the MA State House, UUA Publications Editor Larisa Hohenboken reflects on the fight for the freedom to read—and why it matters now.
www.uua.org/pressroom/ingoodfaith/ma-freedom-read-advocacy
Although some of these topics are specific to Unitarian Universalism, Skinner House also publishes for a general audience and is distributed by Consortium, a division of Ingram.
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Calling all writers! The Skinner House team have updated their publishing wish list and are welcoming new book proposals. This list, along with information about how to submit a book proposal, can be found at skinnerhouse.org/submissions and is updated frequently, so please check back!
The audiobook of The Release playing on a cell phone.
Did you know The Release: Creativity and Freedom After the Writing Is Done by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is available as an audiobook? Get your copy today from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!
Some people are used to keeping rules; don’t cross the street when the light is red, only sensible. It turns out that keeping rules isn’t the same as keeping covenant, which asks us, instead of keeping a bright line, to keep our promises. To what have we promised ourselves? To this moment in time and place. To this community and even, tenderly interconnected, this planet. We promise ourselves to the idea that we are each and all human beings. We promise that there is something moving between us that we cannot tame and cannot measure. The chalice is a reminder that what flame we keep inside us cannot light the way. The light must spill to shine. The thing you must be is yourself. Unadulterated, shedding the willingness to journey alone, as though you are made of something hard and unforgivable. You are human. You belong, right here, right now. And together, we will chase away the sickness, the secrets, and leave only the open Possibility that the future is a space for growth. —Spilling the Light Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto Spilling the Light.
The light must spill to shine.
The thing you must be is yourself.
Unadulterated, shedding the willingness
to journey alone, as though you are made of something hard and unforgivable. You are human. You belong . . .
—Spilling the Light
Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto
The book BLUU Notes next to some white flowers with large green leaves.
Forged at the intersection of faith and justice, BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation is the first publication from Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU). Available wherever books are sold and through inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop at shopinspirit.org.
A photo of a person holding the book Where Two Worlds Touch while sitting on a chair with a mug in their other hand.
New from Skinner House! A stunning 10th anniversary edition of Where Two Worlds Touch: The Spirit and Science of Alzheimer’s Caregiving, Jade C. Angelica’s beloved memoir and guide for those who love someone with Alzheimer's. Now with a foreword by Dr. Stephen G. Post.
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Imani Rituals: Nurturing African Spiritual Heritage by Dr. Anthony Y. Stringer, Ayanna Kafi, and Rev. Duncan E. Teague is a powerful and necessary collection of rituals centering the African American experience and the African Diaspora. Available wherever books are sold!
A photo of the book Conversations with the Sacred next to some purple grape hyacinth flowers.
Bringing alive the heartfelt words and artwork contributed by creators diverse in spiritual perspective and identity, Conversations with the Sacred is a moving testimony to the power of prayer. Available wherever books are sold and from shopinspirit.org.
Spring Prayer Spirit of Life, we come seeking stillness. The world is bursting with green, with frenetic energy and a desperate need to fill the empty spaces with life. We are bursting, too, our hands frantic to fill the blank slots on our calendars and the empty spaces in our gardens. We all have leafless branches and flat, dark soil. There is no guarantee that we will sprout this year as we have before. Spirit of Life, we seek your blessing. May your hands join ours as we tend our gardens, coaxing life from our sleeping seeds. May you sit with us in the quiet, settling our hearts into a space for waiting, taking in the sun and rain so that we, too, might bloom. Blessed be. —Jess Reynolds Love Like Thunder
Spirit of Life, we seek your blessing.
May your hands join ours as we tend our gardens,
coaxing life from our sleeping seeds.
May you sit with us in the quiet,
settling our hearts into a space for waiting,
taking in the sun and rain so that we, too, might bloom.
—Jess Reynolds
Love Like Thunder
The cover of Love You, Bye on a graphic that says new from Skinner House with an image of a hummingbird in the background.
We’re thrilled to announce our newest title, Love You, Bye by award-winning essayist, poet, and teacher Brenda Miller. This luminous collection of essays and poems about family, faith, and the art of saying goodbye is available to pre-order wherever books are sold.
BLUU Notes next to some purple flowers
Forged at the intersection of faith and justice, BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation is the first publication from Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU). Available wherever books are sold and through inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop at shopinspirit.org.
The audiobook of Where Two Worlds Touch playing on a cell phone.
Did you know Where Two Worlds Touch: The Spirit and Science of Alzheimer's Caregiving by Jade C. Angelica is available as an audiobook? Get your copy today from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!
Tend to Your Spirit on a bed of green moss
Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness by Julianne Lepp and Florence Caplow is a powerful spiritual companion on your journey through the seasons of chronic illness. It's available now wherever books are sold!
Stubborn Grace with a nautilus award seal on its cover. It is being held next to some pansies.
Winner of a Nautilus Award in Memoir! With unflinching honesty and humor in the vein of Cheryl Strayed and David Sedaris but a raw tenderness all her own, Kate Landis chronicles the hardest parts of her young adulthood as well as her journey to community in her memoir Stubborn Grace.