Canadian UUs Read

Canadian UUs Read: Choose the book to help us meet this moment

Saturday, November 1 from 1:00 - 2:45 pm pacific - click here to find the time in your time zone

A national conversation about this moment in Unitarian Universalism.

A panel of ministers will each pitch their book proposal. Audience members (that's you!) will be able to submit questions. At the end of the event, everyone will vote on the book that will help us meet this moment, setting the theme for this year's Sharing our Faith packet.

Hosted by UU Ministers of Canada as an experiment in engaging a national conversation -- part of "Activating the Canadian UU Ecosystem," a year of connection, experimentation and learning.

Ministers and their proposed books:

• Rev. Anne Barker – Imaginable: How to Create a Hopeful Future—in Your Own Life, Your Community, the World by Jane McGonigal (2023). “… we are called to create a hopeful, helpful future. Imaginable brings the tools.” – Rev. Anne.
• Rev. Debra Faulk is championing Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations by the late Richard Wagamese (2016). Rev. Debra says that Embers provides “inspiration, comfort and direction. It is filled with practical advice for responding to hard times.”
• Rev. Lynn Harrison – The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness, by Thomas Moore (2023). Eloquence offers “a fresh and healing approach to wisdom.” It “speaks to the change in consciousness we may need in order to undo current systems of injustice.” – Rev. Lynn.
• Rev. Pat Trudeau finds “hope and direction” in the revised edition of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone (2022).
• Rev. Rosemary Morrison – Beyond Welcome: Building Communities of Love by Linnea Nelson (2022). Beyond Welcome “brings to life the lived experiences of those living on the margins.” – Rev. Rosemary.
• Rev. Samaya Oakley: North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner by Marie Wilson (2024) Samaya chose this book because it shows the importance of seeing the world with new eyes.
• Rev. Arran Morton – How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going: Leading in a Liminal Season By Susan Beaumont (2019). Arran says, “Canadian UUs need this book as it makes the ‘not knowing’ a whole lot less scary, gives us a fresh way to intimately engage with our organizations as leaders, and calls us to approach all of our work in an engaged, spiritually grounded way.”