Worship
Leading worship at North Parish of North Andover UU Church
I am a lively worship leader, energetically drawing congregations into effervescent collective experiences, but I am also skilled at bringing a community into equally important spaces of contemplative quiet and sustained reflection. My leadership style is collaborative, and I think worship is best when it is a shared creative endeavor. I am at my best in concert with fellow ministers, lay leaders, musicians, and youth.
I draw inspiration from many places: the needs of the community, fellow ministers, the news on the radio, and the racial, gender, and environmental justice activists I follow. I am also inspired in my sermons and worship planning by the farmers I have worked with and the land itself that we worked, by the animals I have met, the dharma teachers I have sat with and learned from, and the stand-up comics I follow, especially feminists, queer folks and people of color who perform comedy as a means to get a crowd to see themselves and the world they share in a new light. Humor, when engaged with care and compassion, is a powerful medium for inviting a community into relationship with uncomfortable truths.
From communion rituals (sometimes using flowers or water, and sometimes breaking bread), baptisms and blessings, to holding spaces for mourning and heavy-hearted reflection, I see worship as a time for people to come into contact with their own bodies and feelings and with one another. I want the congregations with whom I worship to find ways to feel at ease in their bodies as well as their spirits. Finding a home in our bodies is not unconnected to feeling at ease together in community.
The joyous noise of intergenerational worship at North Parish!
Sermons and Services
Our First Remote Hymn!
April 1, 2020
Leading a Physically Distant Hymn During Virtual Morning Chapel Service at White Mountain School
Mother’s Day Sermon
“I Find You”
May 8, 2016
Follen Unitarian Universalist Community Church
Lexington, MA
https://follen.org/services/i-find-you/
FATHER’S DAY SERMON
“Fight, Fly, Sink, Swim”
June 18, 2017
Follen Unitarian Universalist Community Church
Lexington, MA
SUMMER WORSHIP SERIES
"Be Still, Magnify, See, Feel”
June 30, 2019
Follen Unitarian Universalist Community Church
Lexington, MA