Writing
While my writing appears often in church newsletters and smaller excerpts of my writing—prayers, quotes, and so on—can be found via Google, I am now sharing more of my work in journals, magazines, and books.
I wrote “Cherishing Our World: Avoiding Despair in Environmental Justice Work” as a chapter grounded in Universalist theology for Justice on Earth, published by the Unitarian Universalist Association through Skinner House. Trilithon, a journal published by the Ancient Order of Druids in America, has included three of my articles on spiritual practice: Nine Hazels Qigong (vol 3), permaculture ethics in contemporary Druidry (vol 4), and meditation drawing on the tradition of Druid Triads (vol 5).
Upcoming publications include “Engaging Spiritual Wisdom in Secular Coaching” for choice magazine and a book on covenant and spiritual formation.
Speaking
As a parish minister, I speak publicly most weeks at the Universalist Church of West Hartford, Connecticut. You can listen to previously recorded sermons on the church’s website or watch recorded services and join us for livestreamed worship each Sunday at 10am on our YouTube Channel. Occasionally, I guest preach elsewhere, but I cherish preaching as part of my conversation with the congregation I serve.
I have had the good fortune to speak in a variety of settings beyond the parish, too, including presenting on the art and rhetoric of storytelling at Ithaca College, Irish cultural history and Turlough O’ Carolan at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. More recently, I spoke on “Universalism and the Green New Deal” at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community.
It is my great honor to have been one of the Berry Street Lecturers for the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (UUMA) in 2017. I spoke on the need for theology and practice that goes “Beyond Both/And” in how we include people in UU communities and imagine ministry.
Scholarship
Learning, teaching, and developing new ideas has always been important to me. My education is wide-ranging, including the hard sciences, the social sciences, history, theology, pedagogy, and the arts.
I hold a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min) from Chicago Theological Seminary studying spiritual formation in liberal religious communities, a Master of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry (focusing on Universalist history and contemplative spirituality), and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University (Neurobio & Behavior major with concentrations in Ecology, Anthropology, & Literature).
In 2020, I began a PhD program at Fielding Graduate University in Human Development, bringing together public leadership and performance studies. I am excited about what possibilities this new work might create!