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Help With Worship |
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This information
is provided as a service to congregations who are seeking speakers and
performers for worship services. The UU District of Metropolitan New
York assumes no responsibility for the content posted here or for the
quality of the services provided. We recommend that you ask for and
contact references to determine if the service provider will meet your
needs. Be sure, too, to ask the service provider about fees or special
equipment the service provider may require.
In addition to the Worship Service
Providers listed below, click here
for links to other online worship service resources. |
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a service provider,
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Worship Service Providers |
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Name: Arthur R. Aldrich
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 845-357-7316
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Service Description: Brave
New World or 1984? Has humanism failed? George Orwell prophesied that
external oppression would deprive us of our autonomy, maturity, and
history. Huxley, on the other hand, warned us against adoring the
technologies that would reduce our capacity to think. In other words,
what we had come to love would destroy us. Which prophesy was correct? |
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Name: Rev. Edmund
Bolella
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 718-829-8767
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Service Description: My
sermons focus on Unitarian Universalist Spirituality. I approach
"traditional" religious language and give it meaning and relevance to
our movement and members. I also discuss what is unique about our
spirituality and how we can apply it to our lives and relationships.
From this basis, I discuss how our spirituality must lead us to issues
of community and social action. |
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Name: Rev. Ben Bortin
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 718-816-0160
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Service Description: Twenty
Nine years of sermons, eight years of which in Duluth, Minnesota. Topics
include "Death Penalty Blues," "The Second Greatest of These - Hope,"
"An Islamic Unitarian Universalist Conversation," "When Madness and
Genius Meet - Vincent Van Gogh," among a host of others. |
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Name: Ilene Corina
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 516-579-4711
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Service Description:
Pastoral care comes in many different forms. When helping members of
your congregation through the healthcare system, there are many things
we can do to keep them comfortable and safe. I can help your
congregation understand the family and congregation's role in support
through the healthcare system. True stories from around the world propel
this work. |
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Website for more information:
PULSE of New York |
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Name: Melanie Davis,
M.Ed.
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UU Minister: No |
Email (click icon):
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Phone: 908-722-1632
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Service Description:
Melanie's
programs
may include songs, readings, and a sermon. (1) "Honoring Your Inherent
Worth and Dignity": UUs covenant to affirm the inherent worth and
dignity of all people but may neglect to affirm our own, despite a
spiritual rationale that recognizes our personal value. (2) "A UU Take
on Faith and Miracles": These highly charged words can be relevant for
religious liberals from many belief systems. (3) “The Abstract Art of
Parenting”: Childrearing is only one aspect of parenting; we may need to
care for ourselves and others, including aging parents. Explore
parenting in light of the 2nd UU principle. |
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Website for more information:
www.honestexchange.com |
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Name: Tom Duncan
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 201-836-6076
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Service Description:
Dr. Dubious and
the Agnostics provide traditional jazz music for congregation events
and for worship services in the New Orleans style. References available
from Central Unitarian Church, Paramus, NJ; All Souls, NYC; St. Paul's
Lutheran, Teaneck, NJ; and Colts Neck Reformed Church, Colts Neck, NJ. |
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Name: Amy Glenn
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 609-895-2696
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Service Description:
I'm a professional teacher, trained in the comparative study of religion
and ethics, and a long-time UU. I love speaking at UU churches. I've
spoken on Understanding Islam as UUs, Healing Through Yoga, The Sufi
Tradition, My Travels in Iran, and Growing Up Mormon. These are just a
few of the potential topics. Please check out my website to learn more
about me. I'm more than happy to speak to your congregation for a
slidling scale fee. |
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Website for more information:
www.amywrightglenn.com |
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Name: Rev. Harry C.
Green |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 201-857-8567 |
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Service Description:
Willing to provide a variety of Sunday services based on the
congregation's needs and desires. |
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Name: Rev. Debra W.
Haffner |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 203-840-1148 |
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Service Description:
"Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing":
Rev. Haffner,
the director of the
Religious
Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing, offers a worship
service on the connection between sexuality and religion and a new
paradigm for sexual health and justice in faith communities. She is
also available to conduct workshops for congregations on building a
sexually healthy faith community and creating safe congregations. |
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Name: Rev. Tony
Johnson |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Phone: 646-515-4729 |
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Service Description:
Topics include 21st Century Universalism, Ambitious Generosity, Healing
with Truth, The Religion and Poetry of William Carlos Williams, Love and
Addiction, A Working Religion for Working People, Talking about God,
Healing with Truth, "I Would Not Stultify Myself" (about Frederick
Douglass, Abolitionism and religion), and many more. Worship should be
lively and reflective as well as thoughtful. If your musician is up to
it, I'll lead call and response hymns. And don't expect me to do it all
from behind the pulpit. Parish and community minister affiliated with
Community Church of New
York UU. |
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Name: Geoff Kaufman
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UU Minister: No |
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Phone: 860 443-2711
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Service Description: I
perform songs in the acoustic folk style, mostly with guitar or a
cappella which can dovetail with many Service topics, particulary
environmental and social justice. I can also offer entire services with
readings, music and my reflections. |
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Website for more information:
Musical
Programs by Geoff Kaufman |
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Name: Jennifer
Kelleher |
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UU Minister: No |
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Email
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Phone: 609-577-7600 |
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Service Description:
Founding Member, Unitarian
Universalist Church at Washington Crossing Young Adult Group and
current Chair, Worship Associates. Experienced in leading
intergenerational, adult, youth and young adult services - contemporary
and traditional. Topics include - Finding Meaning in Difficult Times,
Flame in Our Hands (fostering YA groups), Spirtual Folk (music linked to
UU principles), Four Noble Truths, Love My Country-Fear My Government,
What is worship? Loves to work
with others to create meaningful services specific to congregations/fellowships. |
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Name: Rev. Dr. Nicole C.
Kirk |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 609-452-2280 |
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Service Description:
Currently pursuing a PHD in American Religious History, I served a
Unitarian congregation for eight years in Ohio. I have a variety of
services on every topic and nearly every holiday. |
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Name: Rev. Jan
Vickery Knost |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 401-377-8989 |
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Service Description:
Active parish minister for 45 years. Educated at St. Lawrence
University, Brown and Oxford, England. Served on the UUA Board as
elected trustee from Mass Bay District. Also served on the Ministerial
Fellowship Committee and the Continental Program Fund Committee. Served
churches in RI, MA, NJ, TX, FL and NM. Married to Lorna Smith Knost.
(Celebrated our 46th anniversary this week.) Four children, 1 son and 3
daughters + 7 grandchildren. Interests: fishing, gardening, golf,
writing (prose and poetry), classical music, amateur theater (acting and
directing), a good martini. |
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Name: Rosemarie
Newberry |
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UU Minister: No |
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Email
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Phone: 732-741-7489 |
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Service Description:
I am a candidate for UU ministry interested in working with
congregations on a variety of topics to fill out their program needs.
Topics that I have on hand are: women's body image, plight of the
Indigenous of southern Mexico, UUism and mysticism. I am also available
to do workshops or training on making our congregations more accessible
(physically and for those with other disabilities) and developing
pastoral care support teams. |
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Name: Rev. Julie
Newhall |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 732-291-2221 |
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Service Description:
Sunday worship on a wide variety of themes, weddings, memorial services
and funerals. |
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Name: Herb
Ouida
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UU Minister: No
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Phone: 201-265-7765
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Service Description:
"Transforming Tragedy Into Hope". How Herb's family dealt with loss
of Herb's son on September 11. The family chose to honor Todd and his
memory by creating
The Todd
Ouida Children's Foundation. The
foundation is dedicated to helping children who suffer, as Todd did,
from anxiety disorders and depression. |
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Name: Rev.
Jennifer Pader
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UU Minister: No
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Email
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Phone: 212-765-6340
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Service Description:
Serving as the Affiliate Minister for Pastoral Care of the
Fourth Universalist
Society (Manhattan), I am an urban minister preaching on a variety
of topics according to the needs of the season, the circumstances, and
the congregation. I am known for wide-ranging and often humorous
sermons, including stories about oysters, Martha Stewart, and dogs I
have known. But my sermons are also in touch with pain, compassion,
self-knowledge, and community. |
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Name: Wendy Pantoja
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UU Minister: No
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Phone: 908-789-1599
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Service Description:
I am a candidate for the Unitarian Universalist ministry. Within an
overarching theme of building the Beloved Community, some topics
addressed in my sermons are: cultural misappropriation, accessibility,
covenanting, the search for truth and meaning, and the environment. I am
also available to officiate weddings, civil unions, memorial services,
funerals, and child dedications. As a bilingual person, I can offer
these services in Spanish as well as in English. |
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Name: Rev. Ron
Sala
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UU Minister: Yes
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Email
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Phone: 203-559-9620
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Service Description:
I can preach from my catalog or on a requested subject. Recent sermons
include “Catching Up With Happiness,” “Gnosis: A Western Path Of
Spiritual Knowledge,” “Epiphanies of Rumi,” “Proud to Be Judgment-Free,”
“Jesus Who?” “Let Me Not Whine, Want to Shine, or Recline," “A Busload
of Faith," "Confessions of a Mennonite Menace," and “Life in Balance:
Wisdom from the Tao Te Ching.”
Willing to travel. |
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Website for more
information:
uusis.org/minister.htm |
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Name: Rev. Allen Wells |
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UU Minister: Yes |
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Email
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Phone: 973-539-0301 |
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Service Description:
Allen is especially interested in exploring the inter-relationship of
our inner, spiritual worlds - and the outer: political and social world
of our culture, and how each affects the other. He is an Insight
Meditation teacher and active envionmentalist. |
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Name: Angelo Zappala |
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UU Minister: No |
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Email (click icon):
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Phone: 401-855-6325 |
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Service Description: "Music
That Speaks to Unitarians". An unorthodox but very popular survey of
music old and new, with read-along-lyrics that will remind you of why
you're a UU and rekindle your commitment to your very core! It is a very
engaging, entertaining, and challenging service that will leave you much
to think and talk about! |
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