First Unitarian Church, Louisville KY-Loose Canons

In March, Norm Stewart gave a homily entitled “Loose Canons,” suggesting that we build our own proposed Canon for our First Unitarian religious community. A canon is "a collection or list of sacred books, etc. accepted as genuine." By their nature they are a list made by a specific religious community at a specific point in time. Listeners were encouraged to share the names of one or two books that they think are essential for a UU Canon at this point in our history. Norm started the list with the holy books of several religions, e.g. the Bible, the Tao te Ching, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita. Below is a compilation of the suggestions received.

Adams, Douglas	Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Andersen, Uell S.	Three Magic Words
Bach, Richard	Illusions
Beethoven, Ludwig	Symphony #9
Bhagavad Gita
Bible
Book of Mormon
Borg, Marcus	Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
Boston, Robert	Why the Religious Right is Wrong
Braden, Anne	The Wall Between
Buddha, The Writings of	(2 votes)
Carruth, William Herbert	Each in His Own Tongue (poem)
Carson, Rachel	Silent Spring
Carter, Forrest	The Education of Little Tree
Chief Seattle	Chief Seattle’s Thoughts, 1851
Chopra, Deepak	The Book of Secrets
Chuang Tzu	Writings of
Dalai Lama	Ethics
Darwin, Charles	The Origin of the Species
Darwin, Charles	Writings of
Daugherty, Henry	Writings of
Dickens, Charles	David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles	Great Expectations
Dickenson, Emily Dillard, Annie Egyptian Book of the Dead Ehrmann, Max Fox, Matthew Frankfurter, Felix Freud, Sigmund Frost, Robert Gaarder, Jostein Giono, Jean Gleich, James Grisham, John Gurdjieff Heinlein, Robert Heinlein, Robert Herbert, Frank Hillman, James Hoff, Benjamin Huxley, Aldous Koran Kushner, Harold Lakoff, George Lao Tse Lee, Harper Lincoln, Abraham Luther, Martin Marquez, Garcia Martin, William C. Marx, Karl McCullers, Carson McDermott, Patricia McGan, Ed McTaggart, Lynne Muller, Wayne Neihardt, John Otto, Rudolph Pagels, Elaine Pearson, Carol Peck, Scott Progoff, Ira Puccini Raymo, Chet Remarque, Erich Robbins, Tom Ruiz, Juan Rumi Salinger, J. D. Secret Gospel of Thomas Shakespeare, William Sheldrake, Rupert Singing in the Living Tradition Steinbeck, John Steinbeck, John Sun Tzu The Magna Carta Thoreau, Henry David Thich Naht Hanh Tillich, Paul Tolkien Tolle, Eckhart Twain, Mark Van Loon, Henrik Vivaldi, Antonio Vonnegut, Kurt Waite, A. E. Walsch, Neale Diamond Watts, Alan Whitman, Walt Whitman, Walt Will, George W. Wilson, Robert Anton Wood, Charles Erskine Scott Woodruff, William	Collected Poems Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Desiderata Coming of the Cosmic Christ Writings of The Future of an Illusion Collected Poems Sophie’s World The Man Who Planted Trees Isaac Newton’s Biography Writings of All and Everything Stranger in a Strange Land The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Dune The Soul’s Code The Te of Piglet Perennial Philosophy Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Moral Politics Tao Te Ching (2 votes) To Kill a Mockingbird Gettysburg Address Proclamation of 1516 100 Years of Solitude Tao for Parents Communist Manifesto The Heart is a Lonely Hunter A Life Like Mine (UNICEF) Mother Earth Spirituality The Field Legacy of the Heart Black Elk Speaks The Idea of the Holy Beyond Belief Awakening the Heroes Within Writings of Cloud of Unknowing Nessa Dorma (Turandot) Writings of All Quiet on the Western Front Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Book of Good Love (Four Agreements) Writings of Catcher in the Rye Writings of --, esp. Sonnets Dogs that Know When Their Masters are Coming Home Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men The Art of War Walden (4 votes) Writings of Writings of Lord of the Rings Stillness Speaking Writings of The Children’s Story of the Bible Cello Concerto in C minor Slaughterhouse Five Holy Kabbalah Conversations With God The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Collected Poems Leaves of Grass (2 votes) Statecraft as Soulcraft The Cosmic Trigger Heavenly Discourse The Road to Nab End

A SUMMARY OF MEMBER SUGGESTIONS FOR A UU CANON