Dear Ones,

I hope you’re all enjoying reading a Banned Book this week! As I said last Sunday, ideas are important. Books can be challenged, banned, and burned, but ideas can live on. Our very existence as a faith tradition depends on once-reviled ideas – Unitarianism and Universal Salvation.

I promised to post the books I referenced in last Sunday’s service, as well as links for more information. Here you go:

• “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” and “Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World” by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• “Maus” and “Maus II” by Art Spiegelmann
• “Ruby Bridges Goes to School” by Ruby Bridges
• “Separate is Never Equal” by Duncan Tonatiuh
• “And Tango Makes Three” by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell
• “I Am Jazz” by Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings
• “Godless” by Pete Hautman
• “Looking for Alaska” by John Green
• “New Kid” by Jerry Craft
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “Stamped From the Beginning” and “How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi*
• “George” by Alex Gino
• “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson

More information about Banned Books Week can be found at the American Library Association website: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks

*Dr. Kendi was the Ware Lecturer at the 2022 UUA General Assembly!

Blessings,
Rev. Lori