Taking the Blue Boat Home

This month we feature the Blue Boat Home by Peter Mayer, with illustrations by Sue Todd (2025, Skinner House Books). A book for children of all ages, to treasure for a lifetime. Have you ever heard a book sing, or maybe read a song with pictures? This book is both a...

We Need To Build

This month’s Interfaith Bookshelf featured title is We Need to Build by Eboo Patel, long-time interfaith activist and leader of the national organization Interfaith America. Patel weaves stories of social change with faith traditions in a practical vision for...

Introducing the Interfaith Bookshelf Blog

To start off our blog, here is a book recommended by MIP Guiding Councilor, Ann Carlson: Huston Smith’s, The World’s Religions. Originally published in1958 and for many years the standard college textbook on world religions. While it covers the world’s largest and...

Mental Health Next MIP Priority Area

From many listening gatherings engaging hundreds of people, and in a community assembly, the MIP community chose mental health as the next priority area to bring positive systematic change for our region.   Many of us have family or friends struggling with mental...