UMBA Bookstore of the Week UMBA Bookstore of the Week Beginning February 2000, each week UMBA began featuring one of our many unique locally owned and operated independent bookstores. Each store offers special recommendations on titles of regional interest. From the onset its mission has been to provide good food, good books, and good conversation around issues of peace and justice education, conflict resolution and spirituality. It is one of the outreach ministries of the Community of St. Martin, an ecumenical Christian community. All servers are volunteers and all the tips that are generated from lunch go to alleviate a different local or global hunger-related organization each month.
Customers come to our bookstore to be nourished with a wonderful selection of books on spirituality.
This wondrous book lights children's creativity and shows how God is with us everyday, in every way. Real life examples of happiness and sadness invite parents and children to explore together the questions we all have about God. This gorgeously illustrated picture book tells of a child and his dream for a world filled with wholeness. Themes of cooperative gardening, restored friendships and revived cities generate this mystical dream. Innisfree Creative poet Ted Loder's new book of prayers are gutsy and grace-filled.