THE READING PROGRAM
The United Women in Faith Reading Program encourages members to think critically about current issues through an annual selection of member-reviewed books. It offers an excellent opportunity to deepen your spirituality and to broaden your understanding of our mission work. Subject areas include Nurturing for Community, Social Action, Leadership Development, Spiritual Growth, and books for children and youth. The Reading Program is designed to help interested individuals:
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Expand understanding of and participation in God’s mission
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Increase sensitivity to all human beings—their needs, interests and concerns
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Encourage critical thinking about issues facing humanity today
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Grow in understanding of Scripture as it relates to Christian faith in contemporary life
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Enhance self-knowledge and act from that knowledge
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Strengthen involvement in local and global Christian mission
Click here to learn more about the Reading Program or view a listing of recommended books.
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United Women in Faith
READING PROGRAM & LENDING LIBRARY
Whether you read paperbacks, physical books, use e-readers, or listen to audio books, United Women in Faith encourages everyone to join the UWFaith Reading Program to stay current in our knowledge of today’s issues, and to continue to be women of action.
The Minnesota Conference is proud to offer a free Lending Library, open to any reader to check out books from our library of over 130 eligible books from the reading list – a great convenience for those who may take longer to read a book (no late fees!), who do not have easy access to a local library, prefer not to use e-readers or audio books, or don’t wish to purchase books from the reading list. (However, if you do purchase a book, please consider donating it to our library when you have finished reading it!)
For a current list of books available in our library contact Connie Scott and a copy can be emailed/snail mailed to you. The list will be updated as new books are added so check back often!
Request a book and it will be mailed to you, along with a return mailing envelope. When finished, follow the instructions inserted in the book and mail back using “MEDIA MAIL” – postage is about $4.50 for an average sized book.
Complete information on the Reading Program, as well as a list of all eligible books from 2020-2025 is available at:
uwfaith.org/resources/reading-program
This page has direct links to the reporting form, previous catalogs, a place to suggest a book, complete Reading Program book list (current year plus previous 5 years are eligible) as well as links to Podcasts/Webinars; response magazine
Where to Find Online Used Books:
• Betterworldbooks.com
• Thriftbooks.com
• Secondsale.com
• Bookscouter.com
• Abebooks.com
• Bookfinder.com
• Amazon (used books or new)
Conference Book Zoom – Anyone Can Join!
2025 Minnesota Conference Books For Discussion
Zoom Calls Are From 6:30 – 8 p.m.
The link and discussion questions will be sent out the week before the call
Nurturing For Community MAY 12
Speak, Okinawa
Social Action SEPTEMBER 8
Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
Spiritual Growth NOVEMBER 10
Spiritual Practices For Soul Care: 40 Ways to Deepen Your Faith, Barbara I. Peacock
Contact Connie Scott to join.
“You Can’t Read All Day If You Don’t Start In The Morning!” My top picks lately have been a couple of books that I am reading as an evaluator for the UWFaith Reading Program. You’ll have to wait to find out about them! If you love to read, you may want to consider becoming an evaluator to give input on which books will be added to the reading list. We have several evaluators in our conference - let’s connect and discuss our book assignments! Send me an email connielulu55@msn.com so I can find out who all of you are! Books that our reading group have enjoyed in 2025 are, The Girl With The Louding Voice, by Abi Dare and A Right Worthy Woman, by Ruth Watson.
Help Needed: Still looking to fill two openings for Library Associate for the River Bluffs and Headwaters areas. If you or someone you know has questions about what we do please contact me for more information.
Lending Library Schedule:
May 3: Headwaters Spring Gathering, Northern Pines Camp, Park Rapids
June 24: Prairie Winds - A Day Apart, Cornerstone UMC, Marshall
July 25-27: Mission u, Koronis Camp, Painesville
Sept. 6: Headwaters Fall Gathering, t/b/d
Sept. 13: River Bluffs Fall Gathering, Stewartville
Sept. 20: Prairie Winds Fall Gathering, Blue Earth
Oct. 11-12: UWFaith Annual Conference, Alexandria
Other dates may be available if wanted
Zoom Book Discussion are open to everyone!
May 12th-Speak, Okinawa A Memoir, Elizabeth Miki Brina
Sept. 8th-Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
Nov. 10th-Spiritual Practices For Soul Care, Barbara I. Peacock
For more information on the Reading Program/Lending Library/Zoom Discussions contact:
Connie Scott
700 Agency Tr. #305
Mankato, MN 56001
Telephone 507-456-3073 (call or text); email connielulu55@msn.com
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Download 2025
Reading Program
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Book List -March 2025
Lending Library Books as of March 1, 2025
EDUCATION FOR MISSION:
When Others Shuddered: 8 Women Who Refused Education For Mission 2020
Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco (2 copies) Education For Mission 2021
My Savior is the Masses Education For Mission 2021
Finding Jesus at the Border-Opening Our Hearts (3 copies) Education For Mission 2022
"I Am A Man" Education For Mission 2023
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Education For Mission 2023
Stamped (For Kids) Education For Mission 2023 Youth
Defiance-What the Women of Exodus Teach Us About Freedom Education For Mission 2024
How Beautiful We Were Education For Mission 2024
The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border Education For Mission 2024
The House That Love Built Education For Mission 2024
I'm Black. I'm Methodist. I'm Christian Education For Mission 2024 BONUS
They Called Us Enemy Education For Mission 2024 Youth-graphic
After the Last Border Education For Mission 2025
Apple Skin to the Core Education For Mission 2025 Upper Youth/A
Becoming Kin Education For Mission 2025
Book Woman's Daughter Education For Mission 2025
Fortune-How Race Broke my Family & the World & How to Education For Mission 2025
How to Reach the West Again Education For Mission 2025
Rough Sleepers Education For Mission 2025
Sitti's Bird - A Gaza Story Education For Mission 2025 Childrens
The Girl With the Louding Voice Education For Mission 2025 BONUS
The Lucky Ones Education For Mission 2025 Youth
The Witness Blanket-Truth,Art,& Reconciliation Education For Mission 2025 Youth
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Which Way Lord? Exploring Your Life's Purpose… Leadership Dev. 2020
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women Leadership Dev. 2021 Youth
Speaking Well: Essential Skills for Speakers, Leaders & … Leadership Dev. 2021
Becoming by Michelle Obama Leadership Dev. 2022
Hidden Figures Leadership Dev. 2022
Hidden Figures - Youth Edition Leadership Dev. 2022
My Little Golden Book About Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Dev. 2022 Children
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You Leadership Dev. 2022
A Knock at Midnight (3 copies) Leadership Dev. 2023
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for Climate Control Leadership Dev. 2023
Ida B. the Queen Leadership Dev. 2023
Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence for Every Believer Leadership Dev. 2023
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood Leadership Dev. 2024
I Am A Girl From Africa Leadership Dev. 2024
Notable Native People Leadership Dev. 2024 Youth
Our Strangely Warmed Hearts Leadership Dev. 2024
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart Leadership Dev. 2024
A Right Worthy Woman Leadership Dev. 2025
My Body is Not a Prayer Request Leadership Dev. 2025
Raise Your Voice Leadership Dev. 2025
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree Leadership Dev. 2025
The Making of Biblical Womanhood Leadership Dev. 2025
The Power of Together-Discovering the Christian Life You Have.. Leadership Dev. 2025
Until Someone Listens Leadership Dev. 2025 Children
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders Leadership Dev. 2025 BONUS/YOUTH
We're in This Together Leadership Dev. 2025 Youth
NURTURING FOR COMMUNITY
Finding Peace in an Anxious World NFC or Spiritual Growth 2020 BONUS
Tilly & the Crazy Eights Nurturing For Community 2020 Yes
A Living Gospel: Reading God's Story in Holy Lives Nurturing For Community 2021
Dangling: I ay Have Cancer, but Cancer Doesn't Have Me! Nurturing For Community 2021
Women United For Change Nurturing For Community 2021 BONUS
A Brave Face (2 copies) Nurturing For Community 2022
Becoming Grandma: The Joys & Science of the New … Nurturing For Community 2022
Before We Were Yours Nurturing For Community 2022
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman Nurturing For Community 2022 Youth
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion (2copies) Nurturing For Community 2022
The House On Lowell Street (2 copies) Nurturing For Community 2022
Firekeeper's Daughter Nurturing For Community 2023 Youth
The Barber's Cutting Edge Nurturing For Community 2023 Children
White Fragility Nurturing For Community 2023
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, And a Mother's Will to Survive Nurturing For Community 2024
Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth & Speak Up Nurturing For Community 2024
The ABC's of Diversity Helping Kids & Ourselves Embrace Our Diff. Nurturing For Community 2024
The Seed Keeper Nurturing For Community 2024
All My Rage Nurturing For Community 2025 Youth
All That is Secret Nurturing For Community 2025
All You Can Ever Know Nurturing For Community 2025
Berry Song Nurturing For Community 2025 Children
Charisma's Turn - A Story of Girls and Their Gifts Nurturing For Community 2025 Youth
Grandpa's Window Nurturing For Community 2025 Children
Meeting God in Paul Nurturing For Community 2025
Something Happened in Our Town Nurturing For Community 2025 Children
Speak Okinawa Nurturing For Community 2025
Star Fish Nurturing For Community 2025 Youth
The Light We Carry-Overcoming in Uncertain Times Nurturing For Community 2025
Under the Skin-Hidden Toll of Racism Nurturing For Community 2025
SOCIAL ACTION
For Such a Time as This-Hope & Forgiveness After the… Social Action 2021-2022
Separated at the Border Social Action 2021-2022
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls -2copies Social Action 2020 BONUS
Six By Ten-Stories from Solitary Social Action 2020
What Comes With the Dust Social Action 2020
Girl Gone Missing Social Action 2021
Women Rise Up: Sacred Stories of Resistance for Todays… Social Action 2021
She Persisted: 13 Aerican Women Who Changed The World Social Action 2022 Children
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea Social Action 2022
The Leavers Social Action 2022
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Social Action 2023 BONUS
Cousins (3 copies) Social Action 2023
The Four Winds (2 copies) Social Action 2023
The New American - A Novel Social Action 2023
Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence Social Action 2024
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America Social Action 2024
The Color of Compromise Social Action 2024
The Nickel Boys Social Action 2024
Choosing Brave-How Mamie Till-Mobley & Emmett Till Social Action 2025 Children
I Rise Social Action 2025 Youth
Our Missing Hearts Social Action 2025
Solito Social Action 2025
The Sum of Us - How Racism Hurts Everyone Social Action 2025 Youth
The Sun Does Shine-How I Found Life/Freedom/Justice Social Action 2025
This is Your Time Social Action 2025 Y & C
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Adamant: Finding Truth in a Universe of Options Spiritual Growth 2021
Beyond Loneliness: The Gift of God's Friendship Spiritual Growth 2021
Love is the Way by Bishop Michael Curry Spiritual Growth 2021
The JOurneY Between Us: My Faith Walk: Overcoming… Spiritual Growth 2021
Community in the Midst of Challenging Times Spiritual Growth 2022 Youth
We Are the Kin-Dom Spiritual Growth 2022 Children
Daughter of Cana Spiritual Growth 2023
Our Growing Tree Spiritual Growth 2023 Children
Seek and You Shall Find: Living in the Kin-Dom Spiritual Growth 2023 Youth
The Big Deal of Taking Smal Steps to Move Closer to God (3 copies) Spiritual Growth 2023
Who Can We Be Together? Spiritual Growth 2023
Colors of Hope: A Devotional Journal From LTBTQ+ Christians Spiritual Growth 2024
I Am You: A Book About Ubuntu Spiritual Growth 2024 Children
Land of Silence Spiritual Growth 2024
Living Resistance - An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Spiritual Growth 2025
Miracles and Other Reasonable Things-Learning/Unlearning God Spiritual Growth 2025
Spiritual Practices for Soul Care Spiritual Growth 2025 BONUS
The Gift of the Unexpected-Discovering Who You Were Meant 2b Spiritual Growth 2025
The Wild Land Within Spiritual Growth 2025
The Women of the Bible Speak Spiritual Growth 2025
We Cry Justice - Reading the Bible w Poor People's Campaign Spiritual Growth 2025
What Makes You Come Alive - Howard Thurman Spiritual Growth 2025
Whistlestop Tales from Around the World
Spiritual Growth 2025 Children