The VUU Episode 258 - Trauma Ministry
Channel: Church of the Larger Fellowship - CLFUU
Date: 2019-05-02

Join our hosts Rev. Meg Riley, Aisha Hauser, Christina Rivera, and Rev Michael Tino for a live Unitarian Universalist talk show discussing today's topics from an anti-racist, anti-oppressive and multicultural perspective. The VUU streams live on Facebook every Thursday at 11 am ET.

On The VUU this Week (April 25th):  Julie Taylor and Karen Hutt chatted about what's new and what's next with Trauma Ministry - The VUU #258

Rev. Julie Taylor, Senior Director of Contextual Ministry at Meadville Lombard, is a Unitarian Universalist community minister specializing in critical incident response, community crisis and pastoral care. Julie is an affiliate professor at Meadville Lombard and has been an adjunct professor at Starr King School for the Ministry and Eden Theological Seminary. Julie serves as a chaplain (Capt) with the New York Air National Guard and on the board of the UU Trauma Response Ministry. An ordained minister since 2001, Julie has served UU congregations in New York City and St. Louis and volunteered with multiple crisis and disaster response organizations. A sought-after speaker and teacher, Julie has contributed chapters to several books on the subject of spiritual care and crisis. Agitating, preaching, and working towards dismantling systems of White supremacy are key in Julie’s theology and work. Currently, Julie lives in St. Louis and Chicago with wife, Laurel, and their two children. (Meadville Lombard website)

The Rev. Karen Hutt is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, a credentialed Clinical Pastoral Educator, and a Board Certified Chaplain. Currently, she is the Vice President of Student Experience and Culture at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. She was a co-founder and co-pastor of Church of the Open Door, a dual-affiliated United Church of Christ/Unitarian Universalist congregation that served Chicago’s Black LGBTQ population from 1997-2005. Rev. Hutt went on to serve as a chaplain and Clinical Pastoral Educator in several large hospital systems in both Chicago and Minneapolis. She is widely regarded as one of the most innovative educators in the Clinical Pastoral Education field, and her work has been published in the Journal for Reflective Practice and Supervision.

Production support provided by Margalie Belizaire.

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