Confluence Lecture: Open Minds | Closed Doors

Friday, May 19 – 4:45 pm PT | 5:45 pm MT | 6:45 pm CT | 7:45 pm ET | 8:45 pm AT

UU Ministers of Canada is pleased to announce that Rev. Julie Stoneberg is the 2023 Confluence Lecturer. Rev. Stoneberg ministered for over 17 years with two Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations in Ontario and recently moved to Wisconsin where she is serving UU Church West as Interim Minister.

Rev. Stoneberg introduces her topic: Open Minds | Closed Doors.

“This is the church of the open mind.” But beware! Every change involves some loss. Each new idea or concept can threaten our sense of security and identity, causing us to close down and shut our doors. Are the threats we feel real? Are our identities that fragile? A firm foundation that sustains and holds us is a good thing. Yet, I’d like to imagine that the people of the Canadian Unitarian Council can live into our aspirations to be theologically alive (minds open) and radically inclusive (doors open). Can we be the people who risk our comfort to create the life-changing realities that are needed to bring a world of love and justice into being?”

The  Confluence Lecture will be livestreamed on the CUC’s YouTube Channel.