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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nos complace anunciar nuestra publicación más reciente: una nueva traducción de la Guía de bolsillo del unitarismo universalista, editada por la reverenda Doctora Sofía Betancourt. Una introducción impactante, cautivadora y accesible al unitarismo universalista. shopinspirit.org

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Minister and poet Kristen L. Harper confronts and unpacks the language, imagery, buzz words, and cultural touchstones that reinforce white supremacy culture and invites readers to radically transform their perceptions of blackness. Available wherever books are sold.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re thrilled to announce our newest title, Stranger in My Own Story by Erik Mohn. This raw and searching debut chronicles coming of age as a transracial adoptee and is a necessary addition to the canon of literary memoirs that explore race, identity, and belonging. Available to pre-order now!

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did you know The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide is available as an audiobook? Get your copy from libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Little Did I Know: An Anthology on Loving and Companioning Young Lives, edited by Vanessa Rush Southern is a beautiful and inclusive anthology of reflections on the spiritual gifts and challenges of raising young people. Available wherever books are sold and from shopinspirit.org.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In Wholeness We light our chalice not to defeat the darkness, but because, for a time, we need the gifts of flame: warmth and light to guide and help us in our endeavors. And when the time comes, we will embrace again the gentle dark which allows us rest. —Rev. Sean Parker Dennison

In Wholeness

There is no competition between this light
and the darkness which holds it.
Both the light and the darkness are holy.

We light our chalice not to defeat the darkness,
but because, for a time, we need the gifts of flame:
warmth and light to guide and help us in our endeavors.
And when the time comes, we will embrace
again the gentle dark which allows us rest.

And so, we kindle this light with awareness and gratitude
for light and dark and all that lies in-between.
Each with its gifts, each with its beauty,
each part of a sacred and necessary whole.

—Rev. Sean Parker Dennison
Breaking and Blessing: Meditations

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have you seen our gorgeous children's book Wind, Stop Blowing! by Laura Alary and illustrated by Sue Teodoro? “Wind, stop blowing!” shouts Benjamin Snooks. Until one day the wind answers back in this playful and light-hearted story about flexibility and accepting change. Ages 4–8.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We’re thrilled to announce our newest title, Bless the Weary: Meditations for Congregational Leaders edited by Connie Goodbread. This powerful and restorative collection of poetry and prose is a balm for the exhaustion and overwhelm of being a religious leader. Available wherever books are sold!

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re thrilled to announce our newest title, Dance Together, Spin Apart by Molly Housh Gordon and illustrated by Isabella Grott. The book is a stunning fusion of poetry and particle science that thoughtfully addresses children’s big questions about life and death. Available wherever books are sold!

The Dance Together, Spin Apart book cover shows diverse children and adults dancing and spinning amid watercolor blues and pinks with glowing dots and butterflies, conveying joyful togetherness

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Did you know Journey Toward Morning is available as an audiobook? We know you'll be supported and inspired by these meditations on nature, life, and spirituality by beloved Unitarian Universalist minister Victoria Safford. Get your copy today from libro.fm, Audible, or any other audio platforms.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Run, Run All this running, and all for this: She wants to love like thunder, love like the smell of honeysuckle, love with all the reckless abandon of summer afternoon rain. —Jess Reynolds Love Like Thunder Available wherever books are sold and from inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop.

Run, Run

This body is a wild one:
love ripping through these veins
like fire across a prairie,
eager and hungry and holy.

Wilder still are the humming bees
that make this garden their home,
the sharp sunset color
in the dying autumn leaves,
the river running so fast
it trips over its own feet
and tumbles down a mountainside.

This heart is chasing that river,
chasing the fish swimming downstream
and the leaves about to touch soil
and the tide pulling away from the shore.
This heart is sprinting down dirt paths,
breathing so hard she might crack open.

All this running, and all for this:
She wants to love like thunder,
love like the smell of honeysuckle,
love with all the reckless abandon
of summer afternoon rain.

—Jess Reynolds
Love Like Thunder

Available wherever books are sold and from inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Calling all #Portlanders! This week you have two special opportunities to see award-winning author and teacher Brenda Miller. She will be at Broadway Books on 9/10 to discuss Love You, Bye with Justin Hocking and she will be at BOLD Coffee & Books on 9/11 to discuss the book with Scott Nadelson.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"The school-supply section of any store draws me like a moth to a flame. I no longer need spiral-bound notebooks or #2 pencils . . . But I have a theory. For so many years, in those aisles, I could believe that the present was full of possibility." —Vanessa Rush Southern, Miles of Dream

School Supplies

The school-supply section of any store draws me like a moth to a flame. I no longer need spiral-bound notebooks or number-two pencils, a new lunch pail or spiffy. I’m not sure why I’m drawn to these things since my most recent academic endeavor is years in the past already. But I have a theory.

For so many years, standing in those aisles, I could believe that my past did not determine my present. And the present was full of possibility. Entire worlds of knowledge and adolescent adventure, growth, and change were possible in the year I was preparing for. . . . At the beginning of the school year everything seemed possible.

Now that I am older there is the danger of losing that sense of possibility, of thinking myself an old dog whose tricks might be modified around the edges but never really significantly changed. . . . It is never advisable to hang up the knapsack of adventurous, expectant living for long.

Maybe this is why I like school supplies. Here is this world that says, in colors and crisp white paper, that all is new and all things are possible again.

Postscript: A woman was seen at Staples last week. Her eyes settled on a marbled blue fountain pen. When asked why she bought it, the woman told the clerk she needed a river of ink to ride into the new year. He said he didn’t quite understand what she meant, but he’d seen this behavior in this season, in these aisles, before.

—Vanessa Rush Southern, Miles of Dream: Meditations

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Special opportunity alert! Starts tomorrow! Award-winning author and writing teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is offering a two week course: Writing the Sacred Journey: An Introduction to Spiritual Memoir. The course runs from September 1st to 14th. You can learn more at bit.ly/writingsacre....

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Letting Go I went to the beach, and it was soft today, temperate hues merging and separating; clouds and ocean reflecting, complementing each other, and far away an occasional beam from the Gurnet Light. —Elizabeth Tarbox, taken from Life Tides

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"I wanted to cry because this book soothed something inside of me. It felt holy—as though the author had held out a piece of her heart and said, 'Here, this is for you.'" We’re thrilled to share this review of Swinging on the Garden Gate in U.S. Catholic. uscatholic.org/articles/202...

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A memoir reveals the holiness of bisexuality

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew's 'Swinging on the Garden Gate' bridges a literary gap.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Why Can’t I Fix It? The Questions We Ask When We Love Someone with Addiction by Nathan Detering is a powerful new spiritual tool for anyone with a loved one struggling with #addiction. Available wherever books are sold. #recovery

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

All That You Need Lies Within You Once it is in your heart let it spread into your life, let it pour from your life into the world— and once it is in the world, let it shine upon all beings. —Angela Herrera Reaching for the Sun

All That You Need Lies Within You

Consider this an invitation
to you.
Yes—you
with all your happiness
and your burdens,
your hopes and regrets.
An invitation if you feel good today,
and an invitation if you do not,
if you are aching—
and there are so many ways to ache. . . .

Maybe your heart is heavy
or hardened.
Maybe it’s troubled
and peace can take up residence
only in a small corner,
only on the edge,
with all that is going on in the world,
and in your life.
Ni modo. It doesn’t matter.

All that you need
for a deep and comforting peace to grow
lies within you.
Once it is in your heart
let it spread into your life,
let it pour from your life into the world—
and once it is in the world,
let it shine upon all beings.

—Angela Herrera
Reaching for the Sun

Available at inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Beloved as We Are: Building a Congregational Culture of Disability Inclusion by Barbara F. Meyers and Shelly Rohe is now available as an audiobook! Get your copy today from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The release is the stage when writers share the soul of their project—its gift. Award-winning author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew shares how to thrive and best serve your work once the writing is done. Available wherever books are sold!

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Healing Moment "And what I don’t know ceases to embarrass me, because what I do know is that the water feels gentle like a lover’s touch, and the sand welcomes it." —Elizabeth Tarbox, Life Tides

The Healing Moment

Each day I am newly reminded of my unworthiness: a dozen thoughts misspoken; another day when the good I do falls so far short of the good that I could do; myriad small interchanges, moments of sharing that strain to the breaking point my desire to be generous, helpful, and kind; months of careful work lost by a moment’s impatience, a careless word.

But when I am here at the edge of creation, breaking with the small tide over the sand, the need to do good rolls away; the question of what is right diminishes to insignificance and is easily borne away by the tiny waves. Here, where no words are spoken, none are misspoken.

I am with the broken stubble of the marsh grass that holds on through the wrecking wind and the burning flood. I am with the grains that mold themselves around everything, accepting even so unworthy a foot as mine, holding and shaping it until it feels that it belongs. I stand somewhere between truth and vision, and what I don’t know ceases to embarrass me, because what I do know is that the water feels gentle like a lover’s touch, and the sand welcomes it.

What I have done or failed to do has left no noticeable mark on creation. What I do or don’t do is of no moment now. Now I am here and grateful to be touched, calmed, and healed by the immense pattern of the universe. And when I die, it will be an honor for my blood to return to the sea and my bones to become the sand.

Reassured, I am called back to my life, to another day.

—Elizabeth Tarbox, Life Tides

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Special opportunity alert! Award-winning author and writing teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is offering a two week course: Writing the Sacred Journey: An Introduction to Spiritual Memoir. The course runs from September 1st to 14th. You can learn more at bit.ly/writingsacredjourneyclass.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In Held, community minister and mental health advocate Rev. Meyers illustrates how members of liberal religious congregations can be supportive to those living with mental health problems, and their loved ones, in our congregations and society at large. Available wherever books are sold!

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Today And yet the taste of this perfectly ripe pear on my tongue reminds me of heaven and of gifts beyond measure: like sweetness and sunset and again, tomorrow. —Rev. Sean Parker Dennison Breaking and Blessing: Meditations

Today
has been
a day, like all
days, it seems,
in which I let people
down and did not
love as fully as I
always hope.
And today I have
been sad because
always there are the
unexpected
and unpredictable
consequences of
what I do and
do not know.
And yet the taste
of this perfectly ripe
pear on my tongue
reminds me of heaven
and of gifts beyond
measure: like sweetness
and sunset
and again, tomorrow.

—Rev. Sean Parker Dennison
Breaking and Blessing: Meditations

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Did you know The Release: Creativity and Freedom After the Writing Is Done by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is available as an audiobook? Get your copy today from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Convocatoria de propuestas! En nombre de Skinner House Books, los invitamos a presentar propuestas para una próxima colección de liturgias destinada a la comunidad unitaria universalista de habla hispana en todo el mundo. Para más información: bit.ly/colecciondeliturgias

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New from Skinner House! A stunning 10th anniversary edition of Where Two Worlds Touch: The Spirit and Science of Alzheimer’s Caregiving, Jade C. Angelica’s beloved memoir and guide for those who love someone with Alzheimer's. Now with a foreword by Dr. Stephen G. Post.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Self-ish To bring value back to your Self in a world that functions by daily stripping you of it, you must hold fast to being first in your mind and heart. —Marta I. Valentín A Long Time Blooming

Self-ish

Unless you were of a certain shade
and persuasion
you were not taught by the world
outside of your family
that what you thought mattered,
that how you showed up in the world
could alter the real in reality,
that who you loved
would bring to light forms of affections
always present, yet kept in darkness.

To bring value back to your
Self
in a world that functions by daily
stripping you of it,
you must hold fast to being
first
in your mind and heart.
To be number one
to number one,
means being self-ish, that is, knowing
that who and what you have been
in spite of the intrusion and institution
of internalized oppression
makes all the difference
in creating a multicultural world
and must shine forth.

—Marta I. Valentín
A Long Time Blooming

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness by Julianne Lepp and Florence Caplow is a powerful spiritual companion on your journey through the seasons of chronic illness. It's available now wherever books are sold!

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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A memoir reveals the holiness of bisexuality

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew's 'Swinging on the Garden Gate' bridges a literary gap.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We’re thrilled to announce Beloved as We Are by Barbara F. Meyers and Shelly Rohe. This powerful and much-needed collection blends personal stories and resources to help members of liberal religious congregations foster accessible and inclusive communities. Available wherever books are sold!

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Our newest title, Love You, Bye by award-winning essayist, poet, and teacher Brenda Miller is now available as an audiobook. Get your copy today from Libro.fm, Audible, or any other major audio platforms. And you can often request that your local library purchase a copy too!

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The light must spill to shine. The thing you must be is yourself. Unadulterated, shedding the willingness to journey alone, as though you are made of something hard and unforgivable. You are human. You belong, right here, right now. —Spilling the Light Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto Spilling the Light

Some people are used to keeping rules; don’t cross
the street when the light is red, only sensible. It turns
out that keeping rules isn’t the same as keeping covenant,
which asks us, instead of keeping a bright line, to keep our
promises.

To what have we promised ourselves? To this
moment in time and place. To this community and even,
tenderly interconnected, this planet.
We promise ourselves to the idea that we
are each and all human beings. We promise that there
is something moving between us that we cannot tame
and cannot measure. The chalice is a reminder
that what flame we keep inside us cannot light the way.

The light must spill to shine.

The thing you must be is yourself.
Unadulterated, shedding the willingness
to journey alone, as though you are made of something
hard and unforgivable. You are human. You belong,
right here, right now. And together, we will chase away
the sickness, the secrets, and leave only the open
Possibility that the future is a space for growth.

—Spilling the Light

Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto
Spilling the Light

Available wherever books are sold and from inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Bringing alive the heartfelt words and artwork contributed by creators diverse in spiritual perspective and identity, Conversations with the Sacred is a moving testimony to the power of prayer. Available wherever books are sold.

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Untether yourself from the engines of busyness, one by one— laptop, desktop, wristwatch, scribbled lists, even the telephone, especially the one you carry everywhere, the little tyrant. —Kathleen McTigue An excerpt from "Summer Sabbath" Taken from Shine and Shadow

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