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ReCoMMended ReAdinG foRGeneRAL ASSeMbLy10% offall books atthe uuAbookstore!beACon PReSS AuthoR eboo PAteL iS the 2013 wARe LeCtuReREboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core and the author of SacredGround and Acts of Faith, which was the 2011–2012 UU Common Read. He wasa member of President Obama’s inaugural faith council, is a regular contributor to theWashington Post, Huffington Post, CNN, and public radio, and speaks frequently aboutinterfaith cooperation on college campuses.new from eboo PatelSACRed GRoundPluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America“Challenges the bigotry and intolerance that is seeping into our political rhetoric, remindingus that America is a country built on the pillars of pluralism and tolerance.”—Rev. JiM wALLiS, author of God’s Politics“A refreshing, thought-provoking, myth-smashing, and deeply patriotic exploration of Americanidentity and ideals.” —foRMeR SeCRetARy of StAte MAdeLeine ALbRiGhtAlso AvailablePRoPhetiC enCounteRSReligion and the American Radical traditiondAn MCKAnAnMcKanan, the Ralph Waldo Emerson UnitarianUniversalist Association Senior Lecturer at HarvardDivinity School, offers this history of theprofound relationship between religion andmovements for social change in America.SouL RePAiRRecovering from Moral injury after warRitA nAKAShiMA bRoCK and GAbRieLLA Lettini“An eloquent, deeply human reminder that waris not just what takes place on a distant battlefield.It is something that casts a shadow overthe lives of those who took part for decades afterwards.”—AdAM hoChSChiLd,author of To End All Warsthe RebeLLiouS Life ofMRS. RoSA PARKSJeAnne theohARiS“Theoharis liberates Parks from [a] singularmoment and finally asks the questions that previousjournalists and scholars seemed insufficientlycurious to ask. And the answers willsurprise readers.” —MeLiSSA hARRiS-PeRRy,host, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-PerryLiGht without fiRethe Making of America’s first Muslim CollegeSCott KoRb“This is an important book… about educationin both the broadest and deepest senses andabout Islam in a particular place and time. Onlyhere that place is America, now, a country desperatelyin need of stories about its own Islam.”—Jeff ShARLet, author of The FamilybLue RevoLutionunmaking America’s water CrisisCynthiA bARnett“Our future depends on the Blue Revolutionthat Cynthia Barnett advocates, for, as the ancientsknew long before modern science did,‘Water is life.’” —StePhen RouLAC,New York Journal of BooksA Gift of LoveSermons from Strength to Love andother Preachingsthe ReveRend dR. MARtin LutheR KinG, JR.A Gift of Love includes the classic sermons fromStrength to Love, along with two new sermons.Collectively they present King’s fusion of Christianteachings and social consciousness, andpromote his prescient vision of love as a socialand political force for change.find these and other beacon Press books at the uuA bookstore in the exhibit hall.48 2013 General Assembly