Congregation Building

Twelve Keys to an Effective Church: Strategic Planning for Mission (The Kennon Callahan Resources Library for Effective Churches) - Kennon L. Callahan

Twelve Keys to an Effective Church: The Study Guide - Kennon L. Callahan

Twelve Keys to an Effective Church: The Planning Workbook (The Kennon Callahan Resource Library for Effective Churches) - Kennon L. Callahan

Twelve Keys to an Effective Church: The Leaders' Guide (The Kennon Callahan Resource Library for Effective Churches) - Kennon L. Callahan

Strong, Small Congregations: Creating Strengths and Health for Your Congregation - Kennon L. Callahan

Dynamic Worship: Mission, Grace, Praise, and Power: A Manual for Strengthening the Worship Life of Twelve Keys Congregations - Kennon L. Callahan

Effective Church Finances: Fund-Raising and Budgeting for Church Leaders - Kennon L. Callahan

Giving and Stewardship in an Effective Church: A Guide for Every Member - Kennon L. Callahan

Evensong - by Barbara Hamilton-Holway
Eight commmunity-building worship services, designed for groups of 6-16. Each service includes worship, singing, readings and discussion. This course is a useful guide for helping participants to make lasting connections with other small group members by sharing thoughts, experiences, doubts and religious beliefs.
Available through the Unitarian Universalist Association, click on the link and order Item 1093 (UUA) 1999. 72 pp. Item 1093 · $16.00

Hungarian Unitarian Catechism
The Catechism of the Hungarian Unitarian Church in Transylvania, Romania.   This simple, straightforward Catechism lays out the basics of the Hungarian Unitarian faith and is well worth reading for Adults and Children alike. Translated from Hungarian by the Reverend György Andráshi, Counselor to the Bishop of the Romanian Church in collaboration with Byron C. Miller. $15.00 Available from the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship or click on the title above to go directly to the publications page (you will have to scroll down through the materials to find it).  You may also find the full text of the Catechism from the link below.

Inspirational

Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning - by Scotty McLennan, introduction by Garry Trudeau

Finding Your Religion is a guidebook for the perplexed--those who have lost faith in the religion of their youth and are not sure how to continue their spiritual lives. The book's author, the Rev. Scotty McLennan, has plenty of experience with the perplexed; he is a Unitarian minister and the chaplain at Tufts University. (He has also inspired and entertained millions of people indirectly, as the model for the freewheeling character Reverend Scott Sloan in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury.) McLennan has structured Finding Your Religion on a model of six stages of faith--Magic, Reality, Dependence, Interdependence, and Unity.

Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor E. Frankl

A true classic, the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl's struggle to hold on to hope during his three years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. 

Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion - by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Jewish Theologian who died in 1972. Upon the publication of his book "Man is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion" in 1951, Reinhold Niebuhr stated that Heschel was destined to "become a commanding and authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America."

This book is highly  recommended to all American Unitarians.

From the book:
"The beginning of faith is not a feeling for the mystery of living or a sense
of awe, wonder or fear. The root of religion is the question of what to do
with the feeling for the mystery of living, what to do with awe, wonder or
fear. Religion, the end of isolation, begins with a consciousness that
something is asked of us. It is in that tense, eternal asking in which the
soul is caught and in which man's answer is elicited. *** The ineffable is
a question addressed to us. All that is left to us is a choice - to answer
or to refuse to answer. Yet the more deeply we listen, the more we become
stripped of the arrogance and the callousness which alone would enable us to refuse."

I and Thou - by Martin Buber, Walter Kaufman (Translator)