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The book Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness on some yellow leaves

We’re thrilled to announce our newest title, Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness by Julianne Lepp and Florence Caplow. This powerful spiritual companion on your journey through the seasons of chronic illness is available now wherever books are sold.

Faith on Trial next to some brown autumn leaves and orange and yellow flowers.

Complete with historical context and legal analysis, Faith on Trial by Mark J. T. Caggiano is an invitation to religious progressives and moderates to help put social progress at the center of the national conversation about religion and the law. Available wherever books are sold.

Impassioned audiobook on a phone.

Impassioned is now available as an audiobook! Get your copy of this engaging and timely guide to preaching with passion from minister and professor Lucas Hergert from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!

Gratitude to My Ancestors With honor and respect, these eyes see for you all manner of life you could not have imagined. My lips move with the rhythm of your words flowing through me, my tongue caressing each morsel of wisdom I am graced to pass on. Your DNA rides my veins and with every breath I take, your cautious steps from the past toward a fuller life become bold moves I make toward my destiny. Together, we wrap arms around a new generation, here to become who they were born to be, to cast their magic as we once did and bless each day for their ability to do so. For you, dear ancestors, we live this day. —Marta I. Valentín A Long Time Blooming Available at inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop.

Gratitude to My Ancestors

Together, we wrap arms
around a new generation,
here to become who they were born to be,
to cast their magic as we once did
and bless each day for their ability to do so.
For you, dear ancestors, we live this day.

—Marta I. Valentín

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Images shape how we understand ourselves, our society, and our world. But images are not innocent. Through the Lens of Whiteness is an essential resource to recognize, analyze, and confront the perpetuation of racism in our visual world. Available wherever books are sold.

Photo of Tend to Your Spirit next to a full page advertisement in an issue of Publisher's Weekly.

We loved seeing our newest title Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness by Julianne Lepp and Florence Caplow in the Fall Religion and Spirituality Preview Issue of Publisher's Weekly! It's available wherever books are sold.

Journey Toward Morning audiobook displayed on a phone.

Journey Toward Morning is now available as an audiobook! We know you'll be supported and inspired by these meditations on nature, life, and spirituality by beloved Unitarian Universalist minister Victoria Safford. Get your copy today from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms.

The cover of Tend to Your Spirit on a graphic that says New from Skinner House.

We’re thrilled to announce our newest title, Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness by Julianne Lepp and Florence Caplow. This powerful spiritual companion on your journey through the seasons of chronic illness is available now wherever books are sold.

The book Why Can't I Fix It? on top of some yellow leaves.

Why Can’t I Fix It? The Questions We Ask When We Love Someone with Addiction by Nathan Detering is a powerful new spiritual tool for anyone with a loved one struggling with addiction. Available wherever books are sold.

There must be fuel. There must be a spark, and there must be oxygen. We have principles and ethics. The fuel of the fire we would light. The spark is what passes between us, along with our aliveness, our possibility. Spirit moving in us is our clear invitation— embossed, addressed, sealed with wax, tied with ribbon. The spark is a seed of fire that must be treasured and tended that it may bring the light. We have passion. The air without which nothing thrives, least of all the blaze of covenant, justice, and kindness we would illuminate, both with who we are and what we do. All of these an invitation to bring to life the blaze of liberation that is meant to light our way and to dispel the fog of cruelty and grief. It brings us instead to a hearth around which we gather to be nourished, energized, and warmed and where we get ready to disperse, enlivened. —The Spark Between Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto Spilling the Light

There must be fuel.
There must be a spark,
and there must be oxygen.

We have principles and ethics.
The fuel of the fire we would light.

—The Spark Between

Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto
Spilling the Light

The audiobook of Trusting Change open on a phone. The phone is placed on an envelope on a desk.

Did you know Trusting Change: Finding Our Way Through Personal and Global Transformation by Karen Hering 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!

The cover of Tend to Your Spirit on a graphic that says New from Skinner House.

We’re thrilled to announce our newest title, Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness by Julianne Lepp and Florence Caplow. This powerful spiritual companion on your journey through the seasons of chronic illness is available now wherever books are sold.

A copy of the release on top of a desk with some journals and a pencil. Also on the desk is a glass of water and a small vase of flowers.

The release is the stage when writers share the soul of their project—its gift. Award-winning author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew shares how to thrive and best serve your work once the writing is done. Available wherever books are sold!

A graphic that includes the cover of Tend to Your Spirit and the details of the virtual event: October 14th at 8PM, virtual event, free to attend. The authors in conversation with Tandi Rogers.

Tonight! October 14th at 8:00PM ET, join authors Julianne Lepp and Florence Caplow to honor and celebrate the publication of Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness. The authors will be in conversation with Tandi Rogers. Details to attend: bit.ly/tendtoyourspirit

The book Held on top of some yellow-orange mums.

In Held, community minister and advocate Barbara F. Meyers illustrates how members of faith communities can be supportive to those living with mental health problems, and their loved ones, in our congregations and society. shopinspirit.org

Today has been a day, like all days, it seems, in which I let people down and did not love as fully as I always hope. And today I have been sad because always there are the unexpected and unpredictable consequences of what I do and do not know. And yet the taste of this perfectly ripe pear on my tongue reminds me of heaven and of gifts beyond measure: like sweetness and sunset and again, tomorrow. —Rev. Sean Parker Dennison Breaking and Blessing: Meditations

Today

And yet the taste
of this perfectly ripe
pear on my tongue
reminds me of heaven
and of gifts beyond
measure: like sweetness
and sunset
and again, tomorrow.

—Rev. Sean Parker Dennison
Breaking and Blessing: Meditations

Trusting Change on top of some autumn leaves.

In Trusting Change, minister and award-winning author Karen Hering invites readers to live into and through our transformative times together. It's available wherever books are sold and at shopinspirit.org.

A graphic that includes the cover of Tend to Your Spirit and the details of the virtual event: October 14th at 8PM, virtual event, free to attend. The authors in conversation with Tandi Rogers.

Tuesday, October 14th at 8:00PM ET, join authors Julianne Lepp and Florence Caplow to honor and celebrate the publication of Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness. The authors will be in conversation with Tandi Rogers. Details to attend: bit.ly/tendtoyourspirit

A copy of The Release on a desk with some journals, a vase with yellow flowers, and a glass of water.

The release is the stage when writers share the soul of their project—its gift. Award-winning author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew shares how to thrive and best serve your work once the writing is done. Available wherever books are sold!

The cover of Tend to Your Spirit on a graphic that says New from Skinner House.

We’re thrilled to announce our newest title, Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness by Julianne Lepp and Florence Caplow. This powerful spiritual companion on your journey through the seasons of chronic illness is available to pre-order wherever books are sold.

Faith on Trial next to some brown autumn leaves and orange and yellow flowers.

Complete with historical context and legal analysis, Faith on Trial by Mark J. T. Caggiano is an invitation to religious progressives and moderates to help put social progress at the center of the national conversation about religion and the law. Available wherever books are sold.

Even though they are edible, someone decided that dandelions are weeds, stragglers to destroy, to uproot. But dandelions never got the memo, never thought to care. Busy instead with dropping roots, flinging seeds, unfurling shoots. And persistent in digging in that taproot to depths of two or three average adults end to end, the tiny yellow flower survives. You are no less resilient, reaching both down to the strength that holds you, and up, up to the light, out with your beauty. And you know, having sunk your effort into the cool, damp earth—that while dandelions can be clipped and fought, uninvested in anyone’s opinion they throw their sparkling futures onto the wind, tomorrow tucked into seeds, and grow all the way back, strong and bowing at the very same time. —Taraxacum Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto Spilling the Light

You are no less resilient, reaching
both down to the strength that holds you,
and up, up to the light, out with your beauty.

—Taraxacum

Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto
Spilling the Light

Impassioned audiobook on a phone next to a piece of paper and a pen.

Impassioned is now available as an audiobook! Get your copy of this engaging and timely guide to preaching with passion from minister and professor Lucas Hergert from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!

The Darkness Divine next to some yellow flowers.

Minister and poet Kristen L. Harper confronts and unpacks the language, imagery, buzz words, and cultural touchstones that reinforce white supremacy culture and invites readers to radically transform their perceptions of blackness. Available wherever books are sold and at shopinspirit.org.

The cover of The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide audiobook shown on a smartphone on a purple background.

The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide is now available as an audiobook! Get your copy of this powerful, engaging, and accessible introduction to Unitarian Universalism today from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!

Little Did I Know on the ground next to some acorns and some yellow leaves.

Little Did I Know: An Anthology on Loving and Companioning Young Lives, edited by Vanessa Rush Southern is a beautiful and inclusive anthology of reflections on the spiritual gifts and challenges of raising young people. Available wherever books are sold and from shopinspirit.org.

Cover of Impassioned: A Guide to Progressive Preaching on a graphic that says New from Skinner House

Impassioned by minister and professor Lucas Hergert is an engaging and timely guide to preaching with passion. Hergert shows exactly how progressives can—and why they should—preach with feeling and force. Available now wherever books are sold!

All That You Need Lies Within You Consider this an invitation to you. Yes—you with all your happiness and your burdens, your hopes and regrets. An invitation if you feel good today, and an invitation if you do not, if you are aching— and there are so many ways to ache. . . . Maybe your heart is heavy or hardened. Maybe it’s troubled and peace can take up residence only in a small corner, only on the edge, with all that is going on in the world, and in your life. Ni modo. It doesn’t matter. All that you need for a deep and comforting peace to grow lies within you. Once it is in your heart let it spread into your life, let it pour from your life into the world— and once it is in the world, let it shine upon all beings. —Angela Herrera Reaching for the Sun Available at inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop.

All That You Need Lies Within You

Once it is in your heart
let it spread into your life,
let it pour from your life into the world—
and once it is in the world, let it shine upon all beings.

—Angela Herrera
Reaching for the Sun

Cover of The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide

We’re thrilled to announce a new edition of The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide, edited by Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt. This powerful, engaging, and accessible introduction to Unitarian Universalism is available now wherever books are sold.

Journey Toward Morning audiobook displayed on a phone.

Journey Toward Morning is now available as an audiobook! We know you'll be supported and inspired by these meditations on nature, life, and spirituality by beloved Unitarian Universalist minister Victoria Safford. Get your copy today from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms.