Michelle Richards is the author of Tending the Flame: The Art of Unitarian Universalist Parenting (Skinner House, 2010) and writes for UU World. She is a Credentialed Religious Educator at the Master Level and the executive director of Chalice Sparx Unitarian Universalist Family Camp and Retreat in southwestern Michigan. She is ​currently pursuing an interdisciplinary Master’s degree in Educational Psychology.