Explores Emerson's writings, including his journals and letters, and makes them accessible to today's spiritual seekers

Until now, we have glimpsed Adam's vision through his parables and short writings. Here is the book that many have sought in his life-work- a systematic yet nuanced and entirely readable theology for a new religious liberalism.

“You don’t have to be a prisoner to other people’s beliefs about God, Jesus, heaven or hell - you can be free. You don’t have to be conflicted about your faith and how you live your life – you can go deeper with integrity. You don’t have to feel separated from the Universal Love of God - you can open your heart to it so that you and everyone around you are blessed.”
- Rev. Carlton E. Smith, from the Introduction to Try My Jesus

Love at the Center is available in ebook format now from retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and wherever ebooks are sold. If you order Love at the Center on this page you are pre-ordering a printed copy of the book coming this fall, which will be updated after the 2024 General Assembly and may include additional chapters that are not in the current version of the ebook.

Each of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and similar recovery programs are taken up by twenty-four different anonymous authors, who bring their Unitarian Universalist identity to their reflections.


Twelve-Step Unitarian Universalists: Essays on Recovery was originally published with the title Restored to Sanity: Essays on the Twelve Steps. The title was changed to be more inclusive of people of all abilities and challenges.