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Skinner House Books is the publishing imprint of the Unitarian Universalist Association, a liberal religious organization with more than 1,000 congregations.
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Social Change Now by Deepa Iyer, the 2025–2026 UU Common Read, is now 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!
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November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Mid-November Dawn

The time has come,
I know, I know.
The soft frosts that fade
at the first blush of light
are over.
The grass snaps now
with each step,
and the cold seeps around . . .
up my sleeves
and down my neck.

—Patrick Murfin
We Build Temples in the Heart
Mid-November Dawn "The time has come, I know, I know. The soft frosts that fade at the first blush of light are over. The grass snaps now with each step, and the cold seeps around the buttons of my coat, up my sleeves and down my neck. Of a sudden the leaves, just yesterday the glory of the season, are shed in heaps and drifts. The bare arms that held them shiver in the dawn. Long clouds of starlings swirl and trail across the lowering sky. Crows clamor over the carrion earth. . . . The time has come, I know, I know. My blood quickens in the cold, death falls away. —Patrick Murfin, We Build Temples in the Heart
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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A stunning memoir of coming of age and coming out, Swinging on the Garden Gate describes a period of time in writer and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew’s life when she came to know her #bisexuality as an embodied manifestation of divinity. Available wherever books are sold.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Social Change Now by Deepa Iyer, the 2025–2026 UU Common Read, is now 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 audiobook of Social Change Now playing on a cell phone.
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The Justice and Spirit Goodreads Book Club group read this month is This Day in Recovery: 365 Meditations, edited by Lane-Mairead Campbell and Katie Kandarian. You can join the conversation on Goodreads: bit.ly/justiceandspiritbookclub.
This Day in Recovery on top of yellow leaves.
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Have you seen our gorgeous new children's book Wind, Stop Blowing! by Laura Alary and illustrated by Sue Teodoro? “Wind, stop blowing!” shouts Benjamin Snooks. Until the wind answers back in this playful story about flexibility and accepting change.  Available wherever books are sold!
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November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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In Wholeness

There is no competition between this light
and the darkness which holds it.
Both the light and the darkness are holy.

—Rev. Sean Parker Dennison
Breaking and Blessing: Meditations
In Wholeness There is no competition between this light and the darkness which holds it. Both the light and the darkness are holy. We light our chalice not to defeat the darkness, but because, for a time, we need the gifts of flame: warmth and light to guide and help us in our endeavors. And when the time comes, we will embrace again the gentle dark which allows us rest. And so, we kindle this light with awareness and gratitude for light and dark and all that lies in-between. Each with its gifts, each with its beauty, each part of a sacred and necessary whole. —Rev. Sean Parker Dennison Breaking and Blessing: Meditations
November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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!
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November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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!
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November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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"I had met and surpassed my own standards. But apparently I did not come up to the costuming standards of the Halloween public. I had fallen short of their conception of what a tyrannosaurus would look like."

Halloween Standards by Barbara Merritt taken from Amethyst Beach
Halloween Standards "My son Robbie insisted on being a dinosaur this Halloween, but the only one worth being was a Tyrannosaurus Rex. More specifically, a purple Tyrannosaurus Rex. The day of Halloween was completely reserved for the project, We went to the fabric store and found a nice shiny purple material. That afternoon the sewing machine and I had one of our very infrequent encounters. . . . I admit that I was anxious when we finally assembled the components of the costume, but I was ultimately pleased with the result. Off we went to "trick or treat," with me glancing frequently at my son. I was admiring my own handiwork. I should have been forewarned when my husband declared that Robbie looked more like an alien than "the king of the tyrant lizards." I should have been suspicious when absolutely no one guessed what he was. But I was utterly unprepared for the fact that at four separate households, the hostess dispensing candy asked whether or not he was an eggplant. An eggplant! I have since concluded that it was all a matter of expectations. I, who have very minimal skills as a seamstress, was delighted that I had made a costume at all. I was even more excited that the tail didn't drag and that the head was large enough. I had met and surpassed my own standards. But apparently I did not come up to the costuming standards of the Halloween public. I had fallen short of their conception of what a tyrannosaurus would look like. My standards and theirs were different. It can be just as painful when public standards are lower than your own. Everyone can be pleased and applaud your work, but if you have not met your own expectations of excellence, no one can convince you that you have not failed. . . . No matter what your standards, please bear in mind that not every small, shiny purple person who walks by on Halloween night is an eggplant." Barbara Merritt Amethyst Beach
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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.
The book Through the Lens of Whiteness on a table with a magazine and a cup of coffee in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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 Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness on some yellow leaves
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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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.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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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!
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October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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
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.
October 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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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.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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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.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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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 cover of Tend to Your Spirit on a graphic that says New from Skinner House.
October 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM