Yes! Rev. Alison, the Bookstore folks were listening to your sermon! Soon to arrive (we can’t promise them for Sunday, February 16), are books by Anthony Pinn, PhD, Professor of Religion at Rice University: The Black Practice of Disbelief; Master Class on Being Human: A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist on Religion, Race, and Justice; and Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist. 

We expect to have copies of the Humanist Manifesto III (2003), a free monograph, in stock this Sunday. Also on order: Humanist Manifesto 2000 by Paul Kurtz, Everybody’s Protest Novel by James Baldwin, My People by Langston Hughes, Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, and two books for children: Jimmy’s Rhythm and Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows, and Amanda Gorman’s Girls on the Rise.

Your Beacon Bookstore is very happy to order books for you (or your book club), with 35% of the profit going right to the Church’s general fund! We purchase from a wholesaler for independent bookstores and can access just about anything currently in print from cookbooks to motorcycle repair, from board books for babies to books banned in K-12 schools, from biography to Gothic romance novels.

Ask at the Bookstore table on Sunday during Social Hour. Our Bookstore volunteers include a bunch of former librarians and teachers and other subversives!