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  • Explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human One of Publishers Weekly's Best Nonfiction Books of 2023. Paperback edition. Available for pre-order.
    Book | By Sarah Bakewell | March 12, 2024 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Atheism, Belief, History, Humanism, Science, History, Personal Inspiration
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  • For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it...
    Book | January 5, 2024 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Gender, Gender Justice, History, Science, Women, Equal Opportunity, History
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  • Albert Einstein. Steve Jobs. Katharine Johnson. These geniuses are all visual thinkers. Are you? On order!
    Book | By Temple Grandin, Ann D. Koffsky | December 6, 2023 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Science
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  • I encouraged my students to question authority, especially my authority, because only rarely can we recognize our biases without help.
    Reflection | By JD Stillwater | November 29, 2023 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Body, Humanism, Humility, Imagination, Reason, Science, Searching, Secular, Wonder, Work, Worship
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  • Shimmering poetry and stunning cut-paper art portray epic concepts—the evolving biography of the universe and the symbiotic relationship between science and story. Available for Preorder...
    Book | By Marion Dane Bauer, Hari & Deepti | November 8, 2023 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Children, Science
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  • May your kindness abound like hydrogen, which fuels every star.
    Blessing | By Stacey Elza | November 21, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth, Imagination, Nature, Science, Secular, WorshipWeb, Worship
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  • The 25th-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking book that changed anthropology, asserting that ethnographers needn’t exclude themselves or their vulnerabilities from their work...
    Book | By Ruth Behar | August 17, 2022
    Tagged as: Activism, Culture, Psychology, Science
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  • Freakonomics for the law—how applying behavioral science to the law can fundamentally change and explain misbehavior...
    Book | By Benjamin Van Rooij, Adam Fine | July 8, 2022
    Tagged as: Justice, Psychology, Science, Violence, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice
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  • Why social, racial, and economic justice are just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe...
    Book | By Aviva Chomsky | March 5, 2022
    Tagged as: Climate Justice, Science, Climate Change, Climate Justice
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  • An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.
    Book | By Jessica Hernandez | February 18, 2022
    Tagged as: Environment, Science, Anti-Racism
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  • We are living today with time to do good for ourselves and for each other.
    Poetry | By Charles Thomas | January 28, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth, Earth-Centered, Humanism, Imagination, Interdependence, Nature, Science, Secular, Stewardship, Wonder, WorshipWeb, Worship
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  • For all that we’ve learned; for all that we’ve lost; for the healing we need.
    Prayer | By Katharine Kline | November 11, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Body, Children, Healing, Science, WorshipWeb, Worship
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  • I need to celebrate our human family, whose power and potential shimmer against the backdrop of deep time, because we aren’t at our best right now.
    Reflection | By Erika Hewitt | October 13, 2021 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Awe, Humanism, Science, Wonder, Worship
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  • Illuminates the far-reaching harms of believing that natural means “good,” from misinformation about health choices to justifications for sexism, racism, and flawed economic policies.
    Book | By Alan Levinovitz | March 25, 2021 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Health, Science
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  • Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer, was a member of River Road UU Congregation in Bethesda, Maryland.
    By Staff Writer | September 1, 2020 | From UU news
    Tagged as: Science
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  • A powerful look at the non-scientific history of “race science,” and the assumptions, prejudices, and incentives that have allowed it to reemerge in contemporary science...
    Book | By Angela Saini | March 20, 2020 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Race/Ethnicity, Science, Anti-Racism
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  • Our chalice reminds us that the fire within ourselves is the same fire that illuminates the Universe. It is our reminder that all is connected even though the space of the void is vast, and our experience here is but a blip in the cosmic timeline....
    Chalice Lighting | By Shawn Trapp | November 11, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Agnosticism, Atheism, Awe, Humanism, Meaning, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Purpose, Reason, Science, Secular, Wonder
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  • It’s time we reclaim the snowflake story in all its intertwined ramifications.
    By Robin Colgrove | November 1, 2019 | From Ideas
    Tagged as: Dignity, Individualism, Science
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  • Rain falls upon the surface of the earth, and pulled by gravity each drop begins to flow downhill. Drop merges with drop, flowing together, into a trickle, a streamlet, a creek, a mighty river, flowing onward. Some of the water seeps down into the earth itself, as groundwater, or deep aquifers,...
    Time for All Ages | By Molly Housh Gordon, Jamila Batchelder | September 4, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Body, Climate Justice, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Playfulness, Science, Secular, Water Communion
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  • Karen Uhlenbeck, a Unitarian Universalist, made history this year when she became the first woman to win the prestigious Abel Prize for mathematics.
    By Andrea Dulanto | June 1, 2019 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Science, Women
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