My purpose in life is to bring

more hope, more love & more justice

to the world.

...more hope.

The hands on care I give is an outward pouring of my love but also of my hope.

I give in the spirit that hope begets more hope.

Spiritual Care

I have had extensive experience providing direct spiritual care as a chaplain. I worked alongside an interfaith, interdisciplinary team that provided holistic care to various ethnicities, regions, and cultures. It enabled me to unearth persons own source of meaning and hope to truly provide quality, personalized care.

This meant being beside people as they lost a loved one. This meant holding someone's hand as they went in for a life-altering surgery. This meant making the phone calls that no one ever wants to receive. I did this under the very stressful conditions of a Level One trauma unit for children, in centers for cancer, and end of life palliative settings.

I used and taught meditation, guided imagery, labyrinth, and therapeutic touch as a way to refill the bucket of hope. I've done this in medical and congregational settings!

...more love.

Although I speak to inspire, I speak to spread love. I speak to empower each of us to find what ignites us. I speak to unify us until we are all apart of the big oneness of Love.

Congregational Leadership

When I come to a congregation, I am there to exchange ministry. I give to them, they give to me. I give my ideas, time, talent, support, and gifts and they do the same. And it all gets poured into the walls of the sanctuary until it burst at the seams and flows out into the world. This is why I use "Shared Ministry".

My main responsibilities include worship/preaching, teaching, membership development and supervising staff. I have been able to consistently plan and led creative worship services and spiritual development classes for a couple of decades. I am very proud to have also provided trials and sacraments (baptism, communion, rites, etc.)

My congregations continue to grow and flourish under my leadership and they all experience a growth in membership participation.

...more justice.

This is how i show up in the world.

From active work with The Poor People's Campaign to protesting on Capitol Hill.

Social Justice

I have twin passions for spiritual care and social justice. At first glance, these might seem to

be an odd combination: spiritual care is often seen as individual and personal, while social justice is focused outward to challenge the dominant culture. Yet for me, in my

experience as a chaplain and a faith based community organizer I have found that at the

root of both is connection to hope and meaning. Organizing brings together the variegated

self-interests and moral voices based on individuals lived experiences. Their stories encompass their lives and all those that have been impacted by it.

That reminds me a lot of spiritual care!

A common goal within spiritual care is to enable people to draw from their source of hope and meaning. Social justice work also enables communities to draw deeply from their sources of hope and meaning, but also use their values to form a community that brings more love, more hope, and more justice to this world.

And that is what I am all about.

I have worked alongside the Poor People's Campaign for many years as a Liason*. I have also worked with many others. This has included everything from coalition building with organizers on the local, state, and national level, to organizing programming and transportation for participants. I am an integral part actions around legislative issues including health care, workers rights, voter rights, formally incarcerated people, and environmental justice. I served as an organizer for Moral Movement Maryland. I also bridge this work into spiritual care by implementing education and exposure in my care settings, like the congregation I serve. Some of my favorites were:

Facilitating congregational exploration of issues of white-privilege, white supremacist culture, strengthening relationships within our multi-cultural congregation, and participation in Black Lives Matter in the Unitarian Universalist context..
Facilitating interfaith connections with our local Hindu Temple
Actively supporting, organizing and participating in community worship services in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance and a memorial for those who have died of homelessness in Carroll County (Maryland).
And, being the clergy leader of First Unitarian Church of Baltimore’s social justice ministry on issues of poverty and homelessness.