Unitarian Universalist “Common Read”
Eboo Patel's memoir Acts of Faith, a Beacon Press book originally published in 2008, has been selected as the 2011-12 Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Common Read. A 2008 speaker at the UUA General Assembly, Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), an international, nonprofit, youth service leadership organization.
A Common Read invites participants to read and discuss the same book in a given period of time. A Common Read can build community in our congregations and our movement by giving diverse people a shared experience, shared language, and a basis for deep, meaningful conversations. Use the UUA Acts of Faith Discussion Guide (PDF) to help adult, young adult, youth, or intergenerational groups process and respond to this book's call for religious pluralism.
A committee of UUA staff selected Acts of Faith. Ten years after 9/11, the book describes the vulnerability of youth to violent, fundamentalist influences and makes a case for all of us, particularly youth, to promote pluralism by engaging in interfaith dialogue and social justice work.
The UUA Bookstore is supporting this Common Read with a 10% discount on orders of 5-9 books and 20% off orders of 10 or more books. Acts of Faith is also available online where e-books are sold, and in public libraries.
Download and post a flyer for the Acts of Faith Common Read; print in color (PDF) or black and white (PDF).
Past Common Read: The Death of Josseline
Dozens of congregations participated in the 2010-11 Common Read of Margaret Regan’s The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands (Beacon Press, 2010). Many used the Discussion Guide for Unitarian Universalist Groups (PDF), a flexible plan for leading a group to respond to The Death of Josseline in one to four sessions.
Download and post a flyer for this Common Read (PDF).
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Last updated on Wednesday, October 26, 2011.
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