The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
This novel is inspired by the actual “Lost Friends” newspaper advertisements placed by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War as they searched for lost family members. It follows two intertwined storylines: one set in 1875 and … read more.
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.
The Social Justice Book Club meets on the first Sunday of … read more.
The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined.
Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate … read more.
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Gregory Boyle
In a moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the Jesuit priest and bestselling author of TATTOOS ON THE HEART, Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gang members in Los Angeles … read more.
James by Percival Everett
The novel is a re-imagining of Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain but told from the perspective of Huckleberry’s friend on his travels, Jim, who is an escaped slave. The novel won the 2024 Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award for Fiction, … read more.
Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War by Sister Chan Khong
Sister Chan Khong’s autobiography, Learning True Love, tells the story of her spiritual and personal odyssey through the many years of her life. The book’s centerpiece is her moving account of her return to … read more.
Our plate tithe partner for July to December of 2024 received a check for over $3,000 which will purchase 816 bus passes for our neighbors in need of transportation. Thank you so much for the generous donations!
Based on the “One Minute Social Justice Report” presented on January 5th, 2025
In May the UUCiL will celebrate its 68th year anniversary. The story that is told of our earliest beginning is that a family by the name of Brin were eager to adopt a … read more.
The donations of clothing that you placed under our Giving Tree were delivered to Christi Williams of Open Heart Kitchen to be passed on to Vineyard Resource Center and those in the Emergency Shelter. Christi was shocked at the large amount given saying “This is amazing!” She … read more.
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende – please note new date
This story is a fable joined by today’s hard news. Allende disrupts the mainstream narrative about our southern border. She discovers something in Nogales, via El Salvador and Vienna: the human capacity for … read more.
