News from the Director of Religious Education

At the congregation where I was just before I came to you, I was in the choir with a remarkable director of music. Not only did she possess in abundance the skills needed to rehearse [...]

  Maybe you’ll recall from my newsletter post last month that, following the February presentation of my report monitoring lifespan learning under policy governance at UCE, our board president, Jeanne Kerl, asked me to craft [...]

As I’ve found to be the case elsewhere, in speaking with UCEvians during my time so far here, I’ve learned that familiarity with core congregational documents varies widely. I’m a good example: while it is [...]

Literal trigger warning. I’m going to be talking about guns here. Please take care before proceeding, or as you proceed, to read this. As I write, it has been 22 years since Margie and I [...]

Poet Mary Oliver died yesterday. This leaves a hole in my heart that I picture as leaf-shaped. I didn’t grow up knowing her writing. At Virginia Commonwealth University, I had a dear faculty colleague who loved [...]

I grew up attentive to my dreams. This was one of the great gifts from my mother. She helped me learn not only to remember, and contemplate, and seek to understand my dreams, but also [...]