Ministerial Fellowship Committee Reading List 2003
1. Unitarian Universalist Institutional Policy
Read All:
__ UUA Rules and Bylaws
__ MFC Rules, Bylaws, and Policies
__ UUMA Guidelines and Code of Professional Practice
__ Conrad Wright, Congregational Polity
__ UUA Commission on Appraisal, Interdependence: Rethinking
Congregational Polity
2. Professional Resources and Introductory Works
Read All:
__ Singing the Living Tradition
__ UUA Pamphlet Sampler
__ Kennon Callahan, Twelve Keys to an Effective Church
__ Marilyn Peterson, At Personal Risk
__ Karen Lebacqz, Sex in the Parish
Choose One:
__ UU Pocket Guide
__ J. Buehrens and F. Church, A Chosen Faith
__ Jack Mendelsohn, Being Liberal in an Illiberal Age
Choose One:
__ William Schulz, Transforming Words
__ Rzepka and Sawyer, Thematic Preaching
Choose One:
__ Edwin Friedman, Generation to Generation
__ Stevens and Collins, The Equipping Pastor
3. Unitarian and Universalist History
Read All:
__ Charles Howe, For Faith and Freedom: A Short History
of Unitarianism in Europe
__ Charles Howe, The Larger Faith: A Short History of American
Universalism
__ David Robinson, The Unitarians and the Universalists
__ Warren R. Ross The Premise and The Promise
Choose One:
__ Conrad Wright, ed., A Stream of Light
__ Cynthia Grant Tucker, Prophetic Sisterhood
__ David Parke, The Epic of Unitarianism
__ Ahlstrom & Carey, eds., An American Reformation
__ Ernest Cassara, Universalism in America
__ Phillip Hewett, Unitarians in Canada
4.Unitarian Universalist Theologies
Read All:
__ Conrad Wright, ed., Three Prophets of Religious
Liberalism
__ James Luther Adams, The Essential JLA
__ Mason Olds, American Religious Humanism (rev. ed.)
Choose One:
__ Clarence R. Skinner, A Religion for Greatness
__ Henry N. Wieman, The Source of Human Good
__ Charles Hartshorne, Reality as Social Process
__ Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon
__ Sharon Welch, A Feminist Ethic of Risk
5. Religious Education
Read at least one RE curriculum in each age level below, published
by the UUA for:
__ grades 5 and under, __ grades 6 to 12, __ adults
Choose Three:
__ Anastos & Marshak, Philosophy Making: A Process
Guide
__ Sophia Fahs, Today's Children and Yesterday's Heritage
__ Harold Rosen, Religious Education and Our Ultimate Commitment
__ Anastos & Frediani, Curriculum Mapping
__ Tom Groome, Christian Religious Education
__ Maria Harris, Fashion Me A People
__ Essex Conversations:Visions for Lifespan Religious Education
6. Issues in Social Ministry
Read Both:
__ Dieter Hessel, Social Ministry
__ UUA, Weaving the Fabric of Diversity
Choose One:
__ Journey Toward Wholeness
__ Mark Morrison-Reed, Black Pioneers in a White Denomination
__ UUA, Unitarian Unitersalism and the Quest for Racial Justice
7. Biography
(Choose at least three; include a Unitarian, a Universalist, a
male and a female)
__ James Luther Adams, Not Without Dust and Heat
__ Alma Lutz, Susan B. Anthony: Rebel Crusader
__ Ernest Cassara, Hosea Ballou
__ Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Clara Barton, Professional Angel
__ Walter Donald Kring, Henry Whitney Bellows
__ Jack Mendelsohn, Channing: The Reluctant Radical
__ Charlotte Cote, Olympia Brown
__ George Marshall, A. Powell Davies and His Times
__ Dorothy Clark Wilson, Stanger and Traveller: The Life
of Dorothea Dix
__ Arthur McGiffert, Jr., Samuel Atkins Eliot
__ Earl Holt III, William Greenleaf Eliot
__ Robert Richardon, Emerson: The Mind on Fire
__ Paula Blanchard, Margaret Fuller
__ Carl Herman Voss, Rabbi and Minister: The Friendship of
Stephen S. Wise and John Haynes Holmes
__ Deborah Pickman Clifford, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
__ Arnold Crompton, Apostle of Liberty: Starr King of California
__ Skinner and Cole, Hell's Ramparts Fell: The Life of John
Murray
__ Henry Steele Commager, Theodore Parker: An Anthology or
Theodore Parker: Yankee Crusader
__ Tom Owen-Towle, O. Eugene Pickett: Borne on a Wintry Wind
__ Schwarts and McEvoy, eds., Motion Toward Perfection: The
Achievement of Joseph Priestley
__ Duncan Howlett, No Greater Love: The James Reeb Story
I certify that I have read the books indicated above.
Signature _______________________________ Date ________________________
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