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 26, 2026 at 11 a.m. service on “Dance Communion”, featuring Laureen Stokes and Andrea Cownden. 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. Circle Dancing: Celebrating the Sacred in Dance, June Watts, 2006
From LibraryThing: “June Watts is a leading figure in The Sacred Circle Dance movement. Here she describes every aspect of this growing movement, the people, the places, the dances, the music. All over the world people are awakening to the Sacred Power of dance. This is the first book to explore the link between the modern Sacred Dance movement and its historic heritage going back to the stone age.”.
2. Dressed for Dancing: My Sojourn in the Findhorn Foundation by Leslie Anne Hill, 2012, 921 HIL
Written by a VanU member. From Amazon: “”I wasn’t going to commit suicide, but I could imagine waking up one day and deciding not to get out of bed. Ever.” Leslie Hill can’t recover from her husband’s death. Work and therapy don’t help. Trying to escape her grief through travel, she visits a cousin who is living in the Findhorn Foundation, a New Age community in northern Scotland. Although Leslie dislikes the culture of emotional openness and transparency, she is intrigued enough to do a workshop. When a three- month visit turns into a five-year stay, she begins a journey of self-discovery that will change everything.”.
3. Rise Up Singing by Peter Blood, 1992, 782.4 BLO
Gift of Aviva Martin in honour of Harold Brown’s retirement. From LibraryThing: “Lyrics and guitar chords for traditional and modern folk songs.”.
4. We Sing of Life; Songs for Children, Young People, Adults jointly edited by Vincent B. Silliman and Irving Lowens, 1955, 784 SIL
Review by uufco on LibraryThing: “Book is of historical significance for the UUA.”.
5. Slow Dance: A Story of Stroke, Love and Disability by Bonnie Klein, 1997, 362.1 KLE
Gift of Gayle Morton. From LibraryThing: “The author talks about her struggles and inspirations as she deals with her disability after a stroke.”.