Ministry
Rooted in curiosity, and the courage to wonder and to wander.
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Curiosity is one of my deepest spiritual commitments. I believe that faith thrives when we allow ourselves to wonder, to ask real questions, to sit with uncertainty, and to trust that not knowing can be generative rather than threatening.
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My ministry invites people to wander thoughtfully into their own stories, into theological exploration, and into the complexities of community life. I am especially attentive to moments when curiosity feels risky, when grief, conflict, or change tempts us toward certainty or withdrawal. In those moments, I aim to help create spaces that are both grounded and spacious enough to hold what is emerging.
This approach is shaped by my own relationship with grief and ritual, where meaning was not explained but discovered over time through presence and repetition. I trust that congregations, like individuals, grow when they are allowed to explore honestly, with support and care.
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Curiosity, for me, is not passive. It is courageous. It asks us to remain open to one another and to the unfolding life of the community.
Building resilient Unitarian Universalist communities centered in abundant Love.
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Resilience in a faith community is built through relationships, trust, and shared responsibility. I understand resilience not as endurance alone, but as the capacity to adapt, to repair, and to remain connected through challenge and change.
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My ministry centers love not as sentiment, but as practice. Love shows up in how we structure meetings, how we respond to conflict, how we notice who is centered and who is missing, and how we care for one another in both visible and quiet ways.
I am particularly attentive to the ways anxiety and stress move through congregational systems. Rather than rushing to fix problems, I seek to walk alongside individuals and groups, helping them understand what is being revealed and how love might guide the next faithful step.
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When congregations root themselves in abundant love, love that is accountable, inclusive, and practiced daily, they become places where people are supported not only to belong, but to lead, to grow, and to care for one another with courage.
A ministry of belonging -- walking together through the woods
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At the heart of my ministry is a commitment to belonging. I believe our faith communities are at their best when they become places where difference can be held with care and where people are invited into meaningful relationship over time.
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Belonging does not mean sameness. It means cultivating a community that can hold multiple theologies, identities, and experiences, especially when the wider world communicates exclusion, fear, or isolation.
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Some of the most powerful moments in my ministry have come when I have witnessed communities learn how to minister to one another, when people claim shared responsibility for care, when leadership is distributed, and when love is practiced collectively. My role is to help nurture those conditions, trusting the congregation’s capacity for wisdom and compassion.
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Like a path through the woods, belonging is not always linear. It unfolds through presence, attention, and time. My ministry invites people to walk that path together, grounded, curious, and held by a community that is learning how to love more fully.