What calls Unitarian Universalists to create multicultural, antiracist Beloved Community? What do congregations need when they embark on this journey? What common threads run through their stories? Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin—a white minister and a lay person of color—share how five diverse congregations encounter frustrations and disappointments, as well as hope and wonder, once they commit to the journey. Mistakes abound. Miracles of transformation and joy emerge too. Extensively researched and thoughtfully written—with reflection questions at the end of each chapter—Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism will guide readers to apply these stories to their own.

We are pleased to announce 1stUUPB’s 2023 Congregational Read selection: Mistakes and Miracles. This book was the UUA’s 2022-2023 Common Read and the book recommended to us by our incoming minister, Rev. Latifah Griffin.There will be four 90 minute discussion sessions on Zoom on the following Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.:
June 29th, July 13th, July 27th and August 10th.

The book is available as an audiobook, e-book and hard cover/paperback from Amazon, Apple Books, Audible, UUA Bookstore and Barnes & Noble.

All are welcome to participate – free of charge. Please register by contacting Steve Pock at srpock@mac.com, even if you can’t attend all the sessions. Once registered, you will receive a welcome email and be added to our Mistakes and Miracles mailing list. For more information go to: https://www.uua.org/read