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This information
is provided as a service to congregations who are seeking speakers and
performers for worship services. The UU District of Metropolitan New
York assumes no responsibility for the content posted here or for the
quality of the services provided. We recommend that you ask for and
contact references to determine if the service provider will meet your
needs. Be sure, too, to ask the service provider about fees or special
equipment the service provider may require.
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Name: Arthur R. Aldrich
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 845-357-7316
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City and state of residence:
Suffern, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
150 miles |
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Service Description: Brave
New World or 1984? Has humanism failed? George Orwell prophesied that
external oppression would deprive us of our autonomy, maturity, and
history. Huxley, on the other hand, warned us against adoring the
technologies that would reduce our capacity to think. In other words,
what we had come to love would destroy us. Which prophesy was correct? |
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Name: Chris J. Antal
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 914-844-9567
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City and state of residence:
Wappingers Falls, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
150 miles |
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Service Description: I'm a
UU minister ordained by the First Unitarian Society of Albany and an
Army chaplain serving as the Officer-in-Charge of the Camp Smith
Training Site in Cortlandt Manor NY. My service is on the theme "War
Healing as Peacemaking," and I draw from scripture, personal experience,
and our UU heritage in order to challenge congregations to consider new
ways to implement the Creating Peace Statement of Conscience so that our
denomination will become more welcoming to veterans, military personnel,
and their families. |
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Name: Tim Barger, M.Div.,
Ph.D.
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 312-607-2605
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Service Description: A UU
ministerial candidate who has designed services and delivered sermons
including "Community in Communities," "Seven Principles for President
Obama," "Books and the Spirituality of Reading," "Running the
Labyrinth," and others. Home congregation is First Unitarian in
Brooklyn. Graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School. Currently
living in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Humanist in theology. |
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Name: Rev. Ben Bortin
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 718-816-0160
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Service Description: How
Deadly Were the Seven Deadly Sins? These infamous seven don't appear in
the Bible, but they have been bandied about in Christian tradition since
the Middle Ages. Each of these shortcomings poses a problem for us
humans. Each, as well, is a behavior which is all too familiar. I would
contend that there are sins far graver than any of the seven, in scope
and in nature. |
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Name: Dawn Marie Brekke
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 646-504-6691
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City and state of residence:
Brooklyn, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
Throughout Metro District |
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Service Description: Mother
Wove the Morning Members and
friends of The First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn bring to life this
historic exploration of the feminine divine. Through a combination of
music, dance and monologues the congregation is opened to a creative
awareness of the divine as both feminine and masculine. This ensemble
piece is a fun and insightful testament to the resilience of the
goddess. The performance concludes with an engaging group discussion to
open a dialogue on this topic and further congregational awareness. Our
group is excited to bring this to multiple congregations in the Metro
District. |
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Name: Lara Campbell
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 914-274-7361
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City and state of residence:
NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
200 miles |
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Service Description: I am a
candidate for UU ministry and a former DRE. I am able to preach on any
topic or subject that you would like. |
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Name: David R. Chapman
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 908-938-1830
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City and state of residence:
Flemington, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
200 miles |
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Service Description:
"Good and Evil: Hope and Heroism in the 21st Century" Why do good
people, people with high ethical standards and sound theological
beliefs, often fail to keep their decisions and actions at the same
level of goodness as their moral guidelines? Dave’s talk involves a look
at good and evil in light of the science of our 21st century, and what
it means for us individually, socially, and spiritually. Dave makes a
call for a new definition of heroism and moral character. |
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Website for more information:
WellSaidDave.com |
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Name: Melanie Davis,
EdD, CSE |
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 908-722-1632
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City and state of residence:
Somerville, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
anywhere in the Metro NY District |
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Service Description:
Melanie's programs include songs, readings, and a sermon. (1) "Honoring
Your Inherent Worth and Dignity": UUs covenant to affirm the inherent
worth and dignity of all people but may neglect to affirm our own.
Melanie offers a spiritual framework for recognizing one's own value;
(2) "A UU Take on Faith and Miracles": These highly charged words can be
relevant for religious liberals from many belief systems; (3) "The
Abstract Art of Parenting": Explore the ways we can incorporate the
second UU principal as we parent children, ourselves, siblings, and
aging parents; (4) "Answering the Call": Melanie describes her journey
from being a UU youth sex educator to becoming a professional sexuality
education consultant who approaches her work as a ministry. |
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Website for more information:
HonestExchange.com |
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Name: Rev. Dr. Len De
Roche, D. Min.
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 610-317-2338
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City and state of residence:
Bethlehem, PA |
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Distance willing to travel: 150 miles |
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Service Description: I will
develop sermons for the particular congregation and setting either
cognitive based or more affective. I have served three congregations. My
interests include Jungian psychology and systems theory and am working
as a financial advisor for a Fortune 300 company as my day job. Examples
include The Gospel According to Dr. Seuss, (Dr. Seuss was not a
theologian, but his children’s books are full of faithfulness, fairness,
friendship, fun and alliteration); The Malstrom (a sermon using a story
by Poe as a theme); ; The Green Bag (a sermon derived from a Norwegian
folk tale); Spiritual Self-Care or There be Dragons Here (going to that
place internally that is scary.) |
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Name: Rev. Dianne
Disston, M.S.
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 845-494-6789
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Service Description: A
Spiritual Mentor in Brewster NY, Rev. Dianne Disston, M.S. has a
Bachelors in Business and Psychology and a Masters in Leadership. After
25 years in the corporate world as manager, coach, and corporate
trainer, Dianne was ordained as an Interfaith Minister in 2003 at St.
John the Divine in New York City. In 2010 she graduated from the
Westchester Institute for Psychoanalysis in Bedford Hills, NY, receiving
psychoanalytic certification and is currently pursuing New York State
Licensure. Dianne provides worship services for local UU
congregations. Topics include: The Feminine Church, Something Greater
Than Ourselves, On Common Ground: An Interfaith Perspective, Spiritual
Depression in the 21st Century. |
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Name: Tom Duncan
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 201-836-6076
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Service Description:
Dr. Dubious and
the Agnostics provide traditional jazz music for congregation events
and for worship services in the New Orleans style. References available
from Central Unitarian Church, Paramus, NJ; All Souls, NYC; St. Paul's
Lutheran, Teaneck, NJ; Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Ramsey, NJ and
Colts Neck Reformed Church, Colts Neck, NJ. |
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Name: Barnaby Feder
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 973-919-2448
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City and state of residence:
Montclair, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
60 miles |
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Service Description:
Current Intern Minister at Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, life-long UU
and former New York Times reporter has sermons to offer on the
challenges new technologies pose for UU values (see my UU World article,
Fall, 2010) and little known but notable UUs with New Jersey connections
(including Luke Garner, a now forgotten prophetic Universalist minister
in Newark during the 1930s). "CommUUnion" reflects on our links to and
discomfort with this Christian tradition. "The One Truth to Have When
You're Having More Than One" asks whether we are really free from dogma.
Also a multi-media presentation on Shinto based on my residency at one
of Japan's oldest Shinto shrines in August 2010 (see web link below). |
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Website for more information:
Exploring the Way of the Kami |
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Name: Rev. Jef Gamblee
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 718-818-0065
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City and state of residence:
Staten Island, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
60 miles |
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Service Description:
Sermons focusing on our ministry to one another in congregations and the
challenge of practicing our UU vision outside the walls of our
buildings. |
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Name: Amy Wright Glenn
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 609-895-2696
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Service Description: Amy
Wright Glenn is a talented and warm-hearted speaker experienced in
addressing UU congregations receiving very positive feedback. As a long
time UU, Glenn draws upon her extensive study of comparative religions
and her unique experiences as a birth doula and hospital chaplain to
make philosophical topics come to life. She speaks powerfully and
evocatively on subjects relating to the study of World Religions, Myth
and Culture, Birth and Death, the Middle East, Gender Studies, and
Contemporary Ethics. |
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Website for more information:
www.amywrightglenn.com |
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Name: Joe Gonzalez, Jr.
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 203-406-3213
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City and state of residence:
Stamford, CT |
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Distance willing to travel:
will travel up to 45 miles, or about an hour's worth of travel |
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Service Description: (1)
"I'm Pagan . . . I Don't Bite!" Much of what the world knows about the
Wiccan and pagan religions comes in the form of misinformation from
Hollywood, the Internet, and even the Bible. This sermon takes a look at
what paganism really is, how the negative steroetypes and misinformation
came to be, and what pagans and we as UUs can do to help bring a
positive light back to this ancient religion. (2) "Did Jesus Survive the
Crucifixion?" Evidence that Jesus survived the crucifixion is found in
the holy texts of several major world religions, including the Christian
Gospels! I take a look at the evidence, as well as the possibility that
Jesus traveled to and spent his remaining days in India and is currently
buried in a known location in Kashmir. I will also discuss the
implications of Jesus' survival not only on Christianity, but on
religion as we know it today. |
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Name: Rev. Harry C.
Green |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 201-857-8567 |
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City and state of residence:
Ridgewood, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
100 miles |
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Service Description:
Special services I've written and delivered in recent months relate to
my personal experience with civil rights history, one entitled "Immigration:
Then and Now," which is an analysis of the history of immigration in
the U.S. over the past 150 years, and most recently a well received
sermon on "The Loss of Civility." Otherwise I am able to provide
services on a wide variety of topics based on a congregation's needs and
desires. |
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Name: Daniel Gregoire |
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 347-244-5309 |
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City and state of residence:
New York, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
25-50 miles |
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Service Description:
I bring sense of warmth and levity to Sunday Worship service. I enjoy
preaching on topics that include Science Fiction, Ancient Near Eastern
mythology, 19th Century British and American Literature. My sermons have
been well received and have been described as “thought provoking”,
“inspirational” and “fun”. I am available for last minute preaching
engagements, especially over holiday weekends and during the summer
months! Currently, I am a first year Seminarian at Union Theological
Seminary in the city of New York, preparing for Parish Ministry.
Moreover, I am quite eager for and appreciative of opportunities to
practice the craft of Ministry. |
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Name: Andy Gundel
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 203-984-1409
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City and state of residence:
Wilton, CT |
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Distance willing to travel:
100 miles |
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Service Description: Exit
43 is a group of very experienced and accomplished musicians who sing
both original pieces as well as standard repertoire that expressed UU
ideals and is excellently suited to UU worship. The group has a
diversity of styles that they use to keep their materials interesting:
everthing from the folk genre to gospel. Our contemporary sound makes it
easy for people to participate in the experience. We have been getting
outstanding reviews. Please contact us for further details. |
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Website for more information:
Exit43.net |
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Name: Rev. Debra W.
Haffner |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 203-840-1148 |
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Service Description:
"Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing":
Rev. Haffner,
the director of the
Religious
Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing, offers a worship
service on the connection between sexuality and religion and a new
paradigm for sexual health and justice in faith communities. She is
also available to conduct workshops for congregations on building a
sexually healthy faith community and creating safe congregations. |
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Name: Dave Hunter
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 484-318-8678
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City and state of residence:
Berwyn, PA |
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Distance willing to travel:
districtwide |
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Service Description: After
20 years as an active member of the UU Church of Arlington, VA, and 25
years as a voting rights lawyer in the Justice Department's Civil Rights
Division, I went back to school to study for the UU ministry, interning
with the UU Congregation of Princeton, and graduating, in 2003, from
Wesley Theological Seminary, in Washington DC. In serving congregations
in New Jersey, Maryland, and Arkansas (co-minister with my wife, the
Rev. Kerry Mueller, in Fayetteville, from 2006 to 2011), I have led
worship services on a wide variety of themes. |
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Name: Laurie James
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 212-563-5523
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City and state of residence:
New York, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
Happy to travel anywhere in Metro NY District |
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Service Description: I'm an
actor, playwright, biographer, and non-fiction writer, and perform two
original solo dramas appropriate for worship services, fundraisers,
etc., entitled "Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" and "Winter Wheat"
about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her Woman's Bible. In addition, I offer
talks such as "Why Margaret Fuller Is Forgotten," "Margaret Fuller's War
Dispatches to Horace Greeley's Tribune" and "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
her Woman's Bible." Also, round-the-table readings of my own plays.
Please see my website for full details. |
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Website for more information:
lauriejames.net |
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Name: Rev. Tony
Johnson |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 646-515-4729 |
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City and state of residence:
Orange, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
throughout Metro NY and to neighboring districts |
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Service Description:
Topics include 21st Century Universalism, Ambitious Generosity, America
Never Was a Christian Nation (But What If It Were?), Forward Movement,
Healing with Truth, Love and Addiction, Obscene Boundaries and Friendly
Borders, Talking about God, The City Is Sacred Space, and many others.
Just ask! Worship should be lively as well as thoughtful. So don't
expect me to stay behind the pulpit or leave my tambourines at home. In
my 33rd year of ministry (parish and community) and still growing, I am
Affiliated Minister at the Community Church of New York UU and
Consulting (Parish) Minister at the UU Congregation of the Palisades in
Englewood NJ. |
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Name: Geoff Kaufman
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 860 443-2711
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Service Description: I
perform songs in the acoustic folk style, mostly with guitar or a
cappella which can dovetail with many Service topics, particulary
environmental and social justice. I can also offer entire services with
readings, music and my reflections. |
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Website for more information:
Musical
Programs by Geoff Kaufman |
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Name: Rev. Dr. Nicole
C. Kirk |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 609-452-2280 |
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Service Description:
Currently pursuing a PHD in American Religious History, I served a
Unitarian congregation for eight years in Kirtland, Ohio. In summer
2008, I was the July Minister at the Unitarian Church in Summit. I have
a variety of services on every topic and nearly every holiday. |
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Name: Rev. Jan
Vickery Knost |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 401-377-8989 |
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Service Description:
Active parish minister for 45 years. Educated at St. Lawrence
University, Brown and Oxford, England. Served on the UUA Board as
elected trustee from Mass Bay District. Also served on the Ministerial
Fellowship Committee and the Continental Program Fund Committee. Served
churches in RI, MA, NJ, TX, FL and NM. Married to Lorna Smith Knost.
(Celebrated our 46th anniversary this week.) Four children, 1 son and 3
daughters + 7 grandchildren. Interests: fishing, gardening, golf,
writing (prose and poetry), classical music, amateur theater (acting and
directing), a good martini. |
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Name: Carlos R.
Martinez |
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UU Minister: No |
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Email
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Phone: 914-835-0332 |
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City and state of residence:
Mamaroneck, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
50-75 miles |
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Service Description: Currently
a candidate in ministry from Union Theological NYC, a second career
seminarian with wide ranging life experiences. Special interest in
connecting our tradition and experience to contemporary expressions of
Unitarian Universalism. Can preach, officiate weddings, dedications, and
memorials. Friendly, welcoming, and hospitable presence. Can conduct
alternative and
non-traditional ceremonies. Lives in Westchester County, can travel
widely in the Tri-state area. Speaks Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and
French. |
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Name: Rev. Kelly
Murphy Mason, QCSW, AAPC Member |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 347-497-3741 |
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City and state of residence:
Riverdale, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
100 miles |
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Service Description: A
wide array of topics fascinates me -- as a community minister, licensed
psychotherapist, religious educator, and long-time Universalist. I
preach sermons that are timely, relevant, meaningful, and contextualized
for the faith community I am addressing. Currently, I am the Director of
Pastoral Care and Counseling Programs at Blanton-Peale Institute and
Vice-President of the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy,
both in New York City. In addition to itinerant preaching, I offer adult
religious education programming on a range of subjects, including mental
health, psychospiritual wisdom, American religious history, contemporary
theologies, and such spiritual practices as prayer beads and labyrinth
walks. |
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Name: Rev. Jon Mundy,
Ph.D. |
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UU Minister: No |
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Email
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Phone: 845-496-9089 |
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Service Description: I am
an author, lecturer, and, as Dr. Baba Jon Mundane, a standup philosopher
comedian. As a lecturer in philosophy at the State University of New
York, my specialization is the History of Mysticism, American
Transcendentalism, and the Psychology of Religion. I’ve authored eight
books, including my newest book What is Mysticism? I am Senior Minister
Emeritus of Interfaith Fellowship with services in Cami Hall across from
Carnegie Hall in New York City. Sermon topics include: Remember to
Laugh: On the Healing Power of Humor (I guarantee 30 plus good laughs in
this message); I’m Nobody, Who are you?; The Spiritual Diet and
Developing Positive Addictions. |
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Website for more information:
Miracles
Magazine |
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Name: Rev. Rosemarie
Newberry |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 732-331-9463 |
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City and state of residence:
Shrewsbury, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
100+ |
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Service Description: I am a
hospice chaplain and a chaplain for people with developmental
disabilities. I have also worked as a parish minister. I provide
workshops to congregations, districts, and also at General Assembly. I
do research at Meadville/Lombard on historical UU figures. I can provide
a variety of worship services. I speak on "UUism and Mysticism," the
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones (a Unitarian of the Western Conference of the
19th century), disabilities, eco-justice, end of life, holy days,
congregational life, and many other topics. Expect your congregation to
be moved, remembering the service for many years to come. |
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Name: Rev. Julie
Newhall |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 732-539-8865 (cell) |
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Service Description:
Ordained Interfaith and UU "minister at large" willing to travel around
the District and beyond in all directions with sermons and services for
all occasions. A few sample topics: Delving into Darwin; Mothers,
Daughters, Goddesses; The Search for the Good Father; Aspects of Grace;
Naming the Holy; You Raise Me Up; Not Without the Others; A Season of
Waiting; In the Society of Friends; We Begin Again in Love; What's in a
Name?; Into the Mystic, and many others. |
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Name: Herb
Ouida
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UU Minister: No
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Email
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Phone: 201-265-7765
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City and state of residence:
River Edge, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
anywhere in the District |
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Service Description:
"Transforming Tragedy Into Hope". How Herb's family dealt with loss
of Herb's son on September 11. The family chose to honor Todd and his
memory by creating
The Todd
Ouida Children's Foundation. The
foundation is dedicated to helping children who suffer, as Todd did,
from anxiety disorders and depression. |
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Name: Rev.
Jennifer Pader
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UU Minister: No
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Email
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Phone: 212-765-6340
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Service Description:
Serving as the Affiliate Minister for Pastoral Care of the
Fourth Universalist
Society (Manhattan), I am an urban minister preaching on a variety
of topics according to the needs of the season, the circumstances, and
the congregation. I am known for wide-ranging and often humorous
sermons, including stories about oysters, Martha Stewart, and dogs I
have known. But my sermons are also in touch with pain, compassion,
self-knowledge, and community. |
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Name:
Rev. Elizabeth Putnam
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UU Minister: Yes
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Email
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Phone: 646-920-2262
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City and state of residence:
New York, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
willing to travel up to two hours by public transport |
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Service Description:
I am able to create services for a wide variety of themes and formats.
Previous traditional format services include Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Sojourner Truth, Interdependence, and Transcendentalism. I am also able
to create alternative format services that allow for direct
congregational interaction, usually building around earth-based themes.
Prior services of this type include May Day, Mid-Summer, and Day of the
Dead. I love to create worship, so special requests for new services are
welcome. |
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Name: Donna Renfro
and Core of Fire |
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UU Minister: No |
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Email
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Phone: 732-513-8867 |
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Service Description: Core
of Fire is an interfaith dance ministry of mature women who use the
healing power of dance to combine spiritual connection and creative
movement into choreography that speaks to our deepest longings to
express the awe, wonder, and anguish of the life experience. We can
bring sacred dance to your congregation in three ways: 2-3 dances in a
worship service; an entire worship service on several topics;
intergenerational workshops on improvisational and choreographed sacred
dance. References available. See some of us perform at General Assembly
2008: Click the Website link below, and then click on video coverage.
Core of Fire is included in the video for the June 26 Worship Service. |
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Website for more information:
About Core of Fire Interfaith Dance Ministry |
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Name: Mirah Riben |
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UU Minister: No |
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Email
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Phone: 732-329-3769 |
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City and state of residence:
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
100 miles or more |
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Service Description: Free
Education Program -- NOT worship. Informational presentation regarding a
little-known civil rights and UU social justice issue: the denied rights
of adult adoptees to access their own original birth certificate. This
issue is currently being heard by the state legislators in 19 states
including NY, NJ, and CT. Day or evening presentation includes a
power-point explaining the history, current controversy, and the UU
principles involved in the rights of seven million American citizens; a
short documentary; and Q & A. Appropriate for all audiences. The
presenter, Mirah Riben, is a UU from Princeton NJ and author of two
books on adoption and many articles. Personally touched by adoption more
than 40 years ago, she has been researching, writing, and speaking about
issues of adoption and adoptee rights since 1979. |
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Website for more information:
Adopted Citizens' Denied Access to Their Birth Certificates - A
Little-Known Civil Rights and UU Social Justice Issue |
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Name: David Rolfe |
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UU Minister: No |
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Email
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Phone: 845-338-0909 |
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City and state of residence:
Kingston, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
75 miles |
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Service Description: I am a
long time UU and a service leader at my congregation. I have taught
Emerson courses at the Life Long Learning center at Bard College and
have given a sermon on Emerson and the oversoul. I am available to give
this sermon and a few others on a variety of topics. I was interviewed
on the radio about Emerson and you can hear the interview on the link
provided below. |
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Website for more information:
Dave's Place in Cyberspace |
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Name: Betty Jeanne
Rueters-Ward, MA
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UU Minister: No |
Email (click icon):
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Phone: 347-850-2579
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City and state of residence:
Brooklyn, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
150 miles |
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Service Description: I am
an experienced preacher, seminary graduate (a new degree program - M.A.
in Religious Leadership for Social Change) and faculty (teach Starr King
School for the Ministry's online youth ministry course), and have served
as staff for local, statewide, and national UU organizations, as well as
other non-profit, educational, and social justice organizations. I
welcome opportunities to preach on any topic, and am happy to provide
sample service topics/outlines for those interested. |
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Name: Rev. Amy
Strano
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UU Minister: Yes
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Email
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Phone: 917-734-1702
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City and state of residence:
Queens, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
Metro NY and NJ |
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Service Description:
The Reverend Amy Strano is an ordained UU. She delights in officiating
weddings. Whether it is a ceremony of 4 or 400 people, Amy provides a
caring, thoughtful, and welcoming presence and is particularly skilled
at alternative and non-traditional ceremonies that celebrate a couple¹s
love rather than written doctrine. Amy is also available to lead
services that honor the life of a person, be it a baby dedication or a
memorial service. Amy lives in New York City with her husband and young
daughter. |
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Name: Rev. Julie
Taylor
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UU Minister: Yes
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Email
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Phone: 646-552-5980
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City and state of residence:
New York, NY |
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Distance willing to travel:
50 miles |
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Service Description:
I can preach from my archive or on your selected topic. Popular sermon
titles include "Nobody's Asking for My Papers," "Web of Covenant,"
"Considering the Unimaginable," and "Day of Rest? Get Real." Ceremonies
for life transitions: weddings, civil unions, memorial services,
funerals, divorce ceremonies and child dedications. I am a member of the
UU Trauma Response Ministry team, Acting Youth Minister at the Fourth
Universalist Society, a chaplain with the Veteran's Administration, and
an EMT with the Central Park Medical Unit. |
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Name: uu4ia (pronouced
"euphoria")
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UU Minister: No
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Email
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Phone: 215-321-3343
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Service Description:
A Women's Quartet providing inspirational harmonic singing for services,
special events, celebrations of life, memorials. The group's mission is
to further service to our faith through song. Areas of interest: women,
earth spirituality, musical meditation, being an integral part of
service. We are able to provide music for services or provide a musical
service. Members of UU Church at Washington Crossing (Titusville NJ):
Marianne Chopp Alt, Sarah Burke, Holly Bussey (founder), Kathy Frey. |
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Name: Charles
Versfelt
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UU Minister: No
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Email
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Phone: 201-637-3907
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City and state of residence:
Raritan, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
50 miles |
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Service Description:
Historic services include: Joseph Priestly and Christian Unitarianism,
performed in colonial costume, includes a brief mock chemistry
demonstration; “Ye Will Say I am No Christian" -- The Religious
Correspondences of Adams and Jefferson, performed in colonial costume.
Sermons include: Spirit and Soul: What do “Soul” and “Spirit” mean to UUs?; Brotherhood of Man: The Shared Hope of the Religious and Secular. |
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Name: Rev. Allen Wells |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 973-539-0301 ext. 2 |
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City and state of residence:
Morristown, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
one hour plus |
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Service Description: Allen
is especially interested in exploring the relationship between our
inner, spiritual life and our outer, political, economic, and
environmental concerns and how each impacts the other. He is an Insight
Meditation teacher, mindfulness based psychotherapist, Buddhist UU, and
affiliated Minister of the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship. |
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Name: Allison Woolbert
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UU Minister: No |
Email (click icon):
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Phone: 609-423-6979
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City and state of residence:
Princeton, NJ |
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Distance willing to travel:
120 miles |
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Service Description:
Allison is a UU educator, speaker, writer and advocate in the field of
gender bias, gender identity, gender expression, erasure, human rights
equality and religious abuse. Allison brings her story of triumph over
gender oppression drawing on a rich variety of humor and her breadth of
experiences as a gender affirmed woman to UU congregations. Her advocacy
and speaking engagements include sermons, workshops, regional
conferences and social justice organizations. Allison is also a frequent
blogger and guest of SSL in speaking about transgender equality and
basic human rights. Most services also offer an after service
workshop/training for congregations and the public. |
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Website for more information:
Phoenix
Consultants Group |
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Name: Angelo Zappala |
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UU Minister: No |
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Email (click icon):
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Phone: 401-855-6325 |
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Service Description: "Music
That Speaks to Unitarians". An unorthodox but very popular survey of
music old and new, with read-along-lyrics that will remind you of why
you're a UU and rekindle your commitment to your very core! It is a very
engaging, entertaining, and challenging service that will leave you much
to think and talk about! |
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