Following Rev. Alison’s sermon on Humanism two weeks ago, we ordered 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 have copies of the Humanist Manifesto III (2003); a free monograph, in stock. May arrive by this Sunday: Humanist Manifesto 2000 by Paul Kurtz, Everybody’s Protest Novel (essays) by James Baldwin. Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, and three new books for children: Jimmy’s Rhythm and Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows, My People by Langston Hughes and Amanda Gorman’s Girls on the Rise are in stock.

A number of the books we’ve always sought out and carried have been listed as “banned books” around the country.  Our own Unitarian Universalist-related presses have been regular publishers of books that make someone’s banned books list. Makes us proud!

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!