Our library in Hewett Centre is open every Sunday after service during Coffee Hour in Hewett Centre, and our Library Team offers related reading lists based on the topic of the Sunday service. Here is their list for the Sunday, July 19, 2026 at 11 a.m. service on “Loving Fahs, Hitschmanova, and Carson”, featuring Karl Perrin. All are welcome in Hewett Centre after the Sunday service to check out some books, and to have coffee and conversation.
VanU library books related to this Sunday’s sermon:
1. Sophia Lyon Fahs: A Biography by Edith F. Hunter, 1966, 921 FAH
Gift of Mary Hamilton. Published by Beacon Press. Review by Molly B. Nolan on Amazon: “Felt like I got to know Rev. Fahs. What an interesting and rich life. Fahs life and Ms. Hunter’s telling of it are wonderful gifts, particularly to Unitarian Universalism.”.
2. Lotta and the Unitarian Service Committee Story by Clyde Sanger, 1986, 921 HIT
From CM Archive: “… Lotta’s secure life in Prague was shattered by the war that left her homeless, and ultimately an orphan. In 1942 she arrived in Canada, and almost immediately started trying to alert Canadians to problems of European war victims. The USC, which she organized in Canada, started with European relief work and expanded to relief and rehabilitation programs in Korea, India, the Gaza strip, and Vietnam. Details of the successes and frustrations of Lotta’s efforts reveal a remarkably capable, persistent, and brave individual. … describing the recent shift in emphasis from small projects, with close personal contact, to larger integrated community development schemes. …”.
3. The USC Story: A Quarter Century of Loving Service by the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada in Europe, the Middle east and Asia 1945-1970 by Lotta Hitschmanova, 1970, 288 UN
From the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada.
4. The Church Across the Street by Reginald D. Manwell and Sophia Lyon Fahs, 1947, 200 MA
Beacon Press publication. Review by uufnn of the book’s dust jacket on LibraryThing: “… “Sophia Lyon Fahs is a widely known author on the education of children, a former lecturer at Union Theological Seminary. . .Mrs. Fahs’ experimental work in religious education has won renown. She is the author of many magazine articles and of such outstanding books as ‘The Old Story of Salvation,’ [and many more]. . .” Dr. John Haynes Holmes said of this work, “I have gone through ‘The Church Across the Street’ with some care and am enthusiastic about it. It is a fascinating piece of writing. . .””.
5. Transforming Liberalism: The Theology of James Luther Adams by George Kimmich Beach, 2021, 230 BEA
From LibraryThing: “… “Beach leads the reader on a discursive, personal journey through the mind and faith of James Luther Adams. Rich in parable and paradox. Adam’s thought remains vivid, his cautions instructive and his spiritual and ethical commitment worthy of abiding emulation.” -Forest Church, author of Freedom from Fear Until now, we have glimpsed Adam’s vision through his parables and short writings. Here is the book that many have sought in his life-work- a systematic yet nuanced and entirely readable theology for a new religious liberalism.”.
6. An Understanding of Albert Schweitzer by George N. Marshall, 1966, 621 SC
From a Google search AI Overview: “… is a 1966 biographical book by George N. Marshall that explores the life, ethics, and theology of the renowned polymath. It examines his famous philosophy of “Reverence for Life”, which argued that all living things have an intrinsic right to exist, and examines his humanitarian and medical work in Africa. …”.
7. Essex Conversations: Visions for Lifespan Religious Education collected by the Essex Conversations Coordinating Committee, 2001, 268.89 ESS
Published by Skinner House Books. From Textbook Nova: “This volume presents conversations and perspectives on religious education across all ages. It addresses the development and implementation of educational approaches within religious communities. The content reflects on best practices and future directions for lifespan learning.”.
8. What If Nobody Forgave, and Other Stories of Principle by Colleen McDonald, 1999, 268.89 MCD
Published by Skinner House Books. From LibaryThing: “… Nineteen stories that focus on justice and other virtues. Each story is followed by discussion questions, activity suggestions and a reading list. These stories bring to life for young listeners the virtues of compassion, idealism, justice, responsibility and respect. …”.
9. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, 2007, 304.2 WEI
From the publisher description on LibraryThing: “… Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders, and paleontologists, he illustrates what the planet might be like today if humans disappeared. …”.
10. For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future by Herman E. Daly, 1989, 330.1 DA
From LibraryThing: “… demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future. …”.
11. I Seem to Be a Verb: Environment and Man’s Future by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1970, 917.3 FUL
The Julian Fears Library. From LibraryThing: “…explorations as an architect, engineer, philosopher and futurist are here extended into experimental book form. Packed with utopian plans, clever insights and light-hearted musings, all aimed at reminding us that we are verbs, not nouns, and that we are never, ever, stuck with life as it is as we can create things. …”.