continuing until her retirement in 1964, Fahs worked for the American Unitarian Association as an editor of children's materials for a new religious curriculum called "The New Beacon Series." One of her best-known quotes is "Each night a child is born is a holy night." Fahs authored or co-authored more than 40 books and even more articles. She retired at the age of eighty-eight and died at the age of 101, leaving behind a legacy of religious and educational progressivism. When the Rev. Dr. Randolph Becker started a Unitarian-Universalist children's sleep away camp (for children up to grade 12), he adopted Sophia Fahs's name for the camp since her religious education was always centered on immediate experience. The Sophia Fahs RE Camp has run each August on Shelter Island, NY, since 1981. The Liberal Religious Educators Association, the professional organization of Unitarian Universalist Association religious educators, sponsors the annual Sophia Lyon Fahs lecture at the UUA's annual General Assembly. Books Uganda's White Man of Work: A Story of Alexander M. Mackay (1907) Red, Yellow, and Black (1918) Exploring Religion with Eight Year Olds, with Helen Firman Sweet (1930) Beginnings of Earth and Sky: Stories Old and New (1937) Beginnings of Life and Death: Stories Old and New, with Dorothy T. Spoerl (1938) Martin and Judy in Sunshine and Rain, with Verna Hills (1940) Leading Children in Worship (1943) When is a Person Religious? (1944) A New Ministry to Children (1945) Jesus, the Carpenter's Son (1945) The Church Across the Street (1947) From Long Ago and Many Lands (1948) Consider the Children How They Grow (1951) Today's Children and Yesterday's Heritage: A Philosophy of Creative Religious Development (1952) From Long Ago and Many Lands (1955) The Old Story of Salvation (1955) Developing Concepts of God with Children (1959) Beginnings: Earth, Sky, Life, Death, Revised Edition (1960) Worshipping Together with Questioning Minds (1965) Old Tales for a New Day: Early Answers to Life's Eternal Questions, with Alice Cobb and Gobin Stair (1980) References External links "Looking Back," UU World magazine The papers of Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. American religious writers Women religious writers American book editors American Unitarian Universalists Writers from Maryland People from Bethesda, Maryland 1876 births 1978 deaths American centenarians College of Wooster alumni Union Theological Seminary (New York City) alumni Children of American missionaries in