Elegantly illustrated, Blue Iris brings together ten new poems, two dozen of Mary Oliver's favorite poems, and two previously unpublished essays.

The essential companion collection to Mary Oliver’s National Book Award-winning New and Selected Poems, Volume One

Weaves together basic spiritual teachings, real life examples, social context and exercises to enable readers to connect all parts of their livesópersonal, interpersonal and political.

McKibben, reading Thoreau as a cultural and spiritual seer, focuses on two questions central to a contemporary reading of Walden: "How much is enough?" and "How do I know what I want?" A Beacon Press Book...

An essential resource for any UU minister or anyone seeking a deeper understanding of UU worship, A Manual of Worship discusses the theoretical and practical elements of worship services....

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through2022 General Assembly Featured Speaker

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A dramatic retelling of the story of the Transcendentalists, revealing them not as isolated authors but as a community of social activists who shaped progressive American values

Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality

A visit to the Boston home of fellow history buff Gail Adams Wiltshire plunges Millie Kirchner into a battle between two branches of a legendary family, descendants of John, Abigail, and Samuel Adams. Some of Gail's relatives are prominent in the effort to preserve city landmarks, but her cousin...

An unflinching and luminous memoir that explores a father’s philosophical transformation when he must reconsider the questions what makes us human? and whose life is worth living?

The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme poverty

A noted biblical scholar explores how the claim of divine choice has been used from ancient times to the present to justify territorial expansion and prejudice

In Held community minister and mental health advocate Barbara F. Meyers illustrates how members of liberal religious congregations can be supportive to those living with mental health problems.

Offers a timely analysis of the sheer ingenuity and persistence of young people who cobble together the resources they need to pursue the lives and careers they want.

A lively, clear explanation of the American healthcare reform movement from a noted expert - giving women the tools they need to demand fair and affordable coverage for all people

Book 1 in the Viridienne Greene Series