Fahs' teaching and writing focused on a method of experiential learning that she hoped would enable children to develop their own ideas about religion and spirituality.
Sunday was a very carefully observed day, spent mostly going to church, reading religious books, playing Bible games and singing.
[7]While studying elementary education, Sophia Lyon married Charles "Harvey" Fahs in June 1902.
[4] For three years, she served as principal of the Union School of Religion upon receiving her Bachelor of Divinity degree.
[4][9] From 1927 to 1944, she also served as one of the first female faculty members at Union Theological Seminary as instructor in Religious Education.
Beginning in 1937 and 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.