As we transition into fall, with this glorious weather, watching the leaves drift down into colorful piles on the ground, I am looking forward to a deepening richness in my position as DRE. I am excited to be ordained and it gives me great joy to be a minister! I
Continue readingI was ordained as an Interfaith Minister on Saturday, September 15th by the Chaplaincy Institute Interfaith Community in Berkeley, California. The beautiful, powerful two-hour long ceremony was held in the early evening at Christ Church in Berkeley. It was an emotional, deeply moving ceremony and I am thrilled to now
Continue reading4-5th graders did a wonderful, moving podcast about protecting wildlife last week in class! You can listen to their ideas and concerns about protecting wildlife below!
Continue readingIt is with great joy and excitement that I announce that I have graduated from the Chaplaincy Institute in Berkeley and have been approved for ordination as an Interfaith Minister and chaplain. The ordination ceremony will be held on September 22, 2018 in Berkeley. In the world of Religious Exploration,
Continue readingBelow is the podcast our wonderfully caring 4th-5th grade class students wrote and recorded about fighting hatred. Please check it out!
Continue readingWhat if you woke up each morning to a poem instead of an alarm? Poet Naomi Shihab Nye, famous for her poem “Kindness” (you can read it here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/kindness), woke her son up for years with poetry from poets all over the world. Always short, sometimes just a stanza of
Continue readingWhat is in a name? Great question! I just read a wonderfully provocative book by Rabbi David A. Cooper’s book “God is a Verb: Kabbalah and the practice of mystical Judaism.” His suggestion? That we begin to think of all beings as verbs rather than nouns. So, you would see
Continue readingListen to this fact-filled, touching podcast the 4th-5th graders made last week about animal cruelty. In it, they share the information they learned and the ways to prevent animal cruelty. Please listen and contemplate how you too can make a difference in the care and protection of animals.
Continue readingInterfaith ministry is a hot topic these days in UU circles. Starr King Seminary’s relationship with the Interfaith Chaplaincy Institute and support of double divinity degrees in UU and Interfaith is a powerful example of this keen gravitation to Interfaith. Knowing I am going to be ordained as an Interfaith
Continue readingThe world is made of stories. We are all storytellers. Every day we tell stories – to our friends, families and co-workers. We share our experiences and whether we are aware of it or not, we share what we have made of these experiences in that moment. Telling our stories
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