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A.___The UU Christian Reader, double issue anthology, 1945-1995, $25.
A must-have book. 400 pages. Essays in the following sections: Our Faith, God and Theology, Unitarian Universalism, Bible, Church, and the UUCF.
B.___“Hymns of the Spirit”, With Services, 1937 $50
Some rare finds in limited quantity. Beacon Press hymnal created by collaboration between Unitarians and Universalist hymnal commissions; the Services of Religion along with the 1937 Hymnal, published by Beacon Press in 1948; and the 1937 Hymnal and Services of Religion printed by Beacon in 1951. Not only own a piece of history, but also a still wonderful source of Christian spiritual nurture and practice, as you may pray the psalms, engage the responsive readings, and sing the hymns. Indicate which of the red hymnals you wish to receive.
C.___“Universalism Then and Now” Vol. 60 UU Christian, 2005, $16.
Our current best-seller. It contains essays on Universalism by Rev. MarkHarris with responses from Rev. Carl Scovel, William W. Park, and Rev. JoeBassett, as well as new essays on Universalism by scholars Peter Hughes andErnest Cassara and the Rev. Duke Gray, and a reflection about a Universalistseminary by Alan Seaburg. Plus one of the highlights is a book review pairingthat has Rev. Kim Beach reviewing the book by Joe Bassett, Theology forPew and Pulpit: The Everlasting Song, and Rev. Bassett reviewing Rev.Beach’s new book, Transforming Liberalism: The Theology of James Luther Adams(JLA was a long-time member of the UUCF Board of Directors).
From Editor Tom Wintle’s Introduction to this Special Issue: “There is analmost palpable conviction in classical Universalism, an overwhelmingcertainty which converts the soul and warms the heart. It is the sense thatGod loves us. All of us. We need to recover that sense. Try as we might togive other meanings to “universalism,’ the original meaning of believing in aGod who wills to save us all is the one that the soul needs to hear. Onesuspects that there are not many religious liberals today who truly believethat God loves them. To be sure, some have tried to storm the gates of theAlmighty by battering down the walls of Calvinism (”how dare you say that I’ma sinner!”), and others have sought the assurances of psychotherapy to affirmtheir lovableness, but the classical Universalist affirmation is different.It is not primarily a belief in ourselves; it is a belief in God. God is theone who bridges the gap between our behavior and God’s intentions. God is theone who takes what in us is not acceptable and pleasing, and, in God’s goodtime, makes it (and us) acceptable and pleasing. The Universalists were notpollyannas, however. At their best, they never pretended to the kind ofliberal faith which H. Richard Niehbur caricatured as believing that “A Godwithout wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment throughthe ministrations of a Christ without a cross.” Indeed, they knew the textsabout the wrath of God, about punishment, about sin, and they took them veryseriously. In fact, the suspicion that the Universalists let humanity off thehook too easily led them to place an emphasis on a “just retribution for sin”that other denominations seldom placed in their creeds. The difference wasthat Universalists maintained that punishment exists only to cure, and lastsonly long enough to effect the needed change.”
D.___ Three Sets of Multiple Books from UUCF for only $20 a set.
___Set One(Devotional/History Special) Includes seven books:
1) “Prayers For Today”(includes from A. Powell Davies to John Haynes Holmes to NativeAmerican Prayers to May Sarton, Tagore, Howard Thurman, Walt Whitman,Theodore Parker, Martineau, Longfellow, Psalms, and more);
2) Henry Ware Jr.’s”On the Formation of the Christian Character”;
3) “Religious Education”(including Priestly’s Christianity and Ecumenism by James Luther Adams too);
4) “The New England Way and Vatican II” by Rev. Joseph A. Bassett;
5) “Frederic Henry Hedge: Unitarian Theologian of the Broad Church” (including seminal essays by G. H. Williams, Charles Grady, and Hedge);
6) “The Thought of God:Meditations’ by Rev. Palfrey Perkins and
7) “Christian Simplicities” by Rev.Perkins.
___Set Two (Theology Special) includes five books:
1) Universalism Alive! essays and reviews by Judith Buck-Glenn, Ernest Cassara, Conrad Wright, David Harris Cole, William B. Williamson, Roger B. Bertschausen, Stanley Hauerwas, and Tom Wintle;
2) “Beyond Spirituality” by Carl Scovel andessays by Rita Nakashima Brock, Herbert R. Davis, Anita Farber-Robertson, Frank Carpenter, Silvia Behrend, Peter Hughes, Max Stackhouse, and Joe Bassett on Karl Barth and the Transylvanian Unitarians;
3) James Luther Adams Papers: Nineteen Essays plus more;
4) “An Easter Faith: The Writings of Carl Scovel”; and
5) “As Others See Us: Ecumenical Perspectives on Unitarian Universalism.”
___Set Three (UU Christian Journal Essays Special) includes six books:
1) UU Christian Journal with essay on The Historical Jesus by John Dominic Crossan, Paul Rasor’s The Christian Challenge to Unitarian Universalism, and essays by Elizabeth Brown, Jane Thickstun, David Parke, and Marvin Shaw;
2) UU Christian Journal with essays by David Parke, Charles Hambrick-Stowe, Peter Gomes, Bruce Stephens, Robert Price, Charles Howe, David Lehman, Roberta Finkelstein, and Carl Scovel;
3) UU Christian Journal with essays by Eric Haugan, Ruppert Lovely, Marvin Shaw, Scott Axford, Jeremy Goring, Edward Johnson, and Wallace Robbins’ “The Humanity of Prayer“;
4) UU Christian Journal with essays by Barbara Merritt, Thomas Eliot Korson, Carl Scovel’s The History of the King’s Chapel Prayer books, Duke Gray, Frances Manley, JosephBassett, and Anne Baxter’s Goddess Religion: Another Bibliography;
5) UU Christian Journal with essays on the liturgical year by Charles Forman and John Hayward and other essays by Ellen Rowso Spero, Stephen Cook, Ruppert Lovely, Kim Beach’s “Are We, Even Today, Socinians?” and a special introduction and translation of Sebastian Castellion’s “The Art of Doubting and Believing, of Knowing and Not Knowing;” and
6) UU Christian Journal with three essays on postmodernism by Paul Rasor, Kim Beach on James Luther Adams, and other essays by Ron Robinson, Laura Horton, Peter Huff, Tom Wintle, and the following book reviews–Tom Wintle reviewing Gary Dorrien’s series on The Making of American Liberal Theology, Harry Hoehler reviewing Bernard Lewis ‘What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response‘, Hoehler reviewing Diana Eck’s A New Religious America, Hoehler reviewing Jessica Stern’s Terror in the Name of God, Frank Schulman reviewing Peter Richardson’s The Boston Religion, Earl Holt reviewing Dan Wakefield’s Spiritually Incorrect, Sue Spencer reviewing Nora Gallagher’s Practicing Resurrection, Charles Grady reviewing John Macaulay’s Unitarianism in the Antebellum South, and Wintle reviewing Carl Scovel’s Never Far From Home published by Skinner House Books.
E.___Any one book out of the sets above, $5.
F.___”Naming the Holy” Selected Writings of Rev. David B. Parke, Vol. 59, $10.
Essays and sermons and more from the Editor of the UU World and long time UU minister.
G.___“Christology in American Unitarianism” by Prescott Wintersteen, $5.
Another must-have book, which traces the theme from the 19thinto the 20th century. Coupled with the UU Christian Reader which covers thelast half of the 20th century, you have two books exploring in depth,particularly here with the Unitarian side of the tradition.
H.___Children’s Curriculums $20 per curriculum.
___Faith Footsteps,
___Bible Stories For Primary Ages,
___The Life and Teachings of Jesus,
___How Others Worship,
Prepared by First Parish of Weston, MA, published by the UUCF.
Good for use in churches, families.
I.___”Christian Responses to the World’s Faiths” by Harry Hoehler, $5.
Issues of relativism, syncretism, universalism,particularism, pluralism. This special book published by the UUCF in 1990 from one of the ministers at First Parish, Weston MA, continues to be relevant and meaningful for our 21st century world. Recommended by Dr. Harvey Cox of Harvard Divinity School.
J.___Communion Services and Sermons, $5.
The “red” liturgical book,including powerful sermons about the nature of communion and eucharist in thefree Christian and Unitarian Universalist tradition, as well as severalliturgies of Word and Table from across perspectives. Great for small groupuse.
K.___“Christian Voices in Unitarian Universalism: Contemporary Essays,” $14.
This latest book published by Skinner House Books can beordered online at www.uua.org/skinner or purchased through us by email (helpsus out a little financially). Read excerpts and more about this ground-breaking book elsewhere on the website.
L.___UUCF t-shirts, blue with white UUCF cross,Get them while they last. $15.
Shirts says Following Jesus in Freedom, and promotes our website url.
Also available: Revival 2005 t-shirts, green with yellow Revival logo and also promoting website url. These for only $10. Email us order with requested size.
M.____Revival 2004 CDs still available Two CDs $10 total
These contain keynote lectures by UUA President Bill Sinkford, and UU author and preacher The Rev. Erik Walker Wikstrom, as well as Revival sermons and music from the great choir at First Unitarian Church, Worcester, MA. .
N.___”Learning While Leading: Increasing Your Effectiveness in Ministry” by the Rev. AnitaFarber-Robertson, UUCF President and interim minister at First Parish,Cambridge, MA. An esteemed Alban Institute book, available through CokesburyBooks, but you get the best deal with us. A few remaining at $14.
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