Recommended Reading & Discussion Guides for International Engagement
Sixth Principle Resources for Unitarian Universalist Congregations
“...The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all...”
—Unitarian Universalist Principles
Recommended Unitarian, Universalist, or Unitarian Universalist (U/U) Reading
- Henry, Richard. Norbert Fabian Capek: A Spiritual Journey. Boston: Skinner House, 1999.
- International Partnership Handbook. Bedford, MA: UU Partner Church Council, 2006.
- Kedei, Mozes, ed. Confessions about Ourselves. Szekelyudvarheyl, RO: Infopress, 1997.
- Keyes, David. Most Like an Arch: Building Global Church Partnerships. Chico, CA: Center for Free Religion, 1999.
- Lavan, Spencer. Unitarians and India. Boston: Skinner House, 1977.
- Morgan, Christine Frederiksen Balazs. Alabaster Village: Our Years in Transylvania. Boston: Skinner House, 1997.
- Muir, F. John. Maglipay Universalist: A History of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines. Annapolis, MD, 2001.
- Pandit, Vivek. Fearless Minds: Rights Based Approach to Organising and Advocacy. Pune, India: National Centre for Advocacy Studies, 2000.
- Reed, Rev. Clifford and Rev. Jill McAllister, eds. The Home We Share: Globalization, Post-Modernism and Unitarian/Universalist Theology—Proceedings of the 2nd ICUU Theological Symposium, Kolozsvár, Romania, July 3-8, 2006. Caerphilly, Wales: International Council of Unitarians and Universalists, 2007.
- Sommer, John. Empowering the Oppressed: Grassroots Advocacy Movements in India. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001.
Discussion Guides
- Empowering the Oppressed Discussion Guide
With Empowering the Oppressed, John G. Sommer offers Unitarian Universalists (UUs) a primer on the innovative people-powered justice movements that the UU Holdeen India Program has been partnering with for decades. Congregational justice programs can learn much from this approach and certainly take inspiration from the work being faithfully supported in their name.
- Most Like An Arch Discussion Guide
Most Like An Arch has the distinction of being a book that arrived exactly when it was most wanted. While some UU congregations have long and varied histories of international engagement, the Partner Church movement which began in the late 1980’s and grew throughout the following decade, created the current wide-spread need for a practical, cogent, and theologically-grounded primer on the many blessings—and complexities—of faithful international engagement. David Keyes addressed that need in his Minn’s Lectures in 1996-7 and their subsequent collection and publication in Most Like An Arch.
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