Sophia Lyon Fahs

Sophia Lyon Fahs (August 2,1876 – April 14,1978) [cite web|last = Hunter|first = Edith Fisher|title = SOPHIA LYON FAHS: LIBERAL RELIGIOUS EDUCATOR|work = Notable American Unitarians|publisher = Harvard University|url = http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/fahs.html|accessdate = 2008-09-13] led a revolution in Unitarian religious education. The American Unitarian Association hired Fahs in 1937 as the Children's Editor for a new series of religious curricula, "The New Beacon Series," for which she wrote or co-wrote almost a dozen books. Her best-known quotation is "Each night a child is born is a holy night."

She joined a Unitarian congregation in 1945, and in 1959 Fahs was ordained as a Unitarian minister by the [http://www.cedarlane.org/ Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church] in Bethesda, Maryland.

The [http://www.uua.org/lreda/ Liberal Religious Educators Association] (LREDA), the professional organization of Unitarian Universalist religious educators, sponsors the annual Sophia Lyon Fahs lecture at the UUA's annual General Assembly.

Children's Camp

Her name has also been applied to a Children's sleep away camp; for children up to grade 12.

Publications

* "Uganda's White Man of Work" (1907)
* "How Childish Should a Child's Religion Be?" for the magazine "Religious Education" (1928)
* "The Church Across the Street" (1947)
* "From Long Ago and Many Lands" (1955)
* "Old Tales for a New Day", with Alice Cobbs
* "The Old Story of Salvation"
* "Consider the Children How They Grow"
* "Today's Children and Yesterday's Heritage, A Philosophy of Creative Religious Development" (1952)
* "Worshipping Together with Questioning Minds" (1965)

References

External links

* "Looking Back," "UU World" magazine, http://www.uuworld.org/2003/02/lookingback.html
* The Sophia Lyon Fahs Lecture, http://www.uua.org/lreda/content/fahs.html