Sophia Lyon Fahs Lecture Committee

This committee arranges for the Sophia Lyon Fahs lecturer each year at General Assembly. The purpose of the Fahs Lecture is to present a speaker on the topic of religious education to this wide and diverse gathering of lay and professional Unitarian Universalists. The Fahs Lecture Committee seeks to invite an individual whose life and work has shown a commitment and understanding of the meaning, the depth, and the challenges of religious education. The speaker's role is to address some aspect of the sacred work of "leading out" learners of all ages, "educare", to help us have deeper understandings, higher visions, and renewed inspirations for this ministry.

The Fahs Lecture is named in honor of Sophia Lyon Fahs, the religious educator who in the mid-20th century shaped the course of Unitarian Universalist religious education. Her insights - including the notion that children develop religious understanding from their interaction with the world - revolutionized how we teach.