Curriculum and Learning Resources

Beacon Press Discussion Guides for Unitarian Universalist Communities

Tom Hallock
Beacon Press
Boston, MA

A resource for adult religious education or adult discussion groups seeking to examine issues of concern to the UU movement

Beacon Press books are ideal tools for life-long learning in UU congregations, and have often led the UU community to identify areas of concern. With this program, we aspire to strengthen the social justice and spiritual work of the denomination.

This program aims to:

• Deepen awareness in the UU community of issues of social justice
• Provide the finest and most enlightened thinking about these issues as tools to enrich discussions within UU communities; and
• Create a new understanding of the work of Beacon Press in UU congregation and communities.

The Beacon Press Discussion Guides provide a flexible structure for a short-term, small-group discussion program using Beacon books. The guides offer support materials for group leaders with all levels of experience, laying out information in such a way that preparation time is minimal.

New guides are available for Free for All by Wendy Kaminer (featured in the January/February issue of the UU World) and Proverbs of Ashes by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker.

Guides are also available for the following books:

A Chosen Faith, by John A. Buehrens and Forrest Church
Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World, by Laurent A. Parks, Cheryl H. Keen, James P. Keen, and Sharon Daloz Parks
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America, by Geoffrey Canada
The Force of Spirit, by Scott Russell Sanders
Kindred, by Octavia Butler
Lifecraft: The Art of Meaning in the Everyday, by Forrest Church
Lifelines, by Forrest Church
The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract, by Theodore R. Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer
Taking Retirement: A Beginner's Diary, by Carl H. Klaus
Waist High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled, by Nancy Mairs
What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution, by E. J. Graff.

Visit http://www.beacon.org/uuguides/contentuu.html for more information and to download free guides.

Contact Tom Hallock if you have any questions.