A Reverent Reverend: The Currency of Community and a Path to Interfaith Ministry with Reverend Rebecca Jaine Suzik
Rebecca Jaine Suzik has been a member of UU PEACE Fellowship for the past decade and currently serves as the Religious Youth Director. Joining and serving our lay-led Fellowship prompted her realization and calling as an Interfaith and Interspiritual Minister. Last month she became ordained after completing an intensive interfaith and interspiritual seminary
In the words of Rev. Claudia M. Frost: “Wouldn’t you like to know the secret of life? Would it make a difference in the choices you make and how you live your life? Join us for this worship service and I will share the secret as it is known to me.”
We usually think that our progress internally and in the world comes from what we do: from our activity, movement, and performance. Our efforts do matter, but sometimes the real renovation happens in the temporary ceasing, in the waiting, in the rests between the notes of our doing. There is wisdom in the pauses of our lives. Let’s spend some time there.
Human hands will catch us when we are born and will care for us when we die. In this service, we will consider the amazing and terrible capacities of human hands throughout our lifespan
June is internationally recognized as the LGBTQ+ Pride month. This Sunday, let’s examine the connotations of the word ‘pride’; revisit and commemorate the ongoing human struggle for equality and inclusion; and find things in our own lives of which we can be proud.
Our culture has largely succumbed to the individualistic set of responses to the gift of life, easily forgetting questions of the common good. Progressive religion, at its best, seeks to bind us to the whole, to one another through our covenants with one another, and to multi-generational thriving. What does it mean to gather together, to be a “congregation” and to approach religious community as a way of learning to balance giving and receiving?