Sophia Lyon Fahs

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Sophia Lyon Fahs (1876-1978) 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 Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda, Maryland.

The 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.

[edit] 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)