Set your clocks and plan to come to church an hour early! Experience the largest annual gathering of Unitarian Universalists in worship as Boulder Valley UU will live-stream the Sunday morning service of the Unitarian-Universalist General Assembly in Baltimore.
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is year’s speaker is the Rev. Dr. Nicole C. Kirk, who is the is the Rev. Dr. J. Frank and Alice Schulman Chair of Unitarian Universalist History at Meadville Lombard Theological School and a historian of American religious history. Our BVUUF service will be led by Service Associates Scott Youmans and Kelly LoGuidice.
Rev. Kirk joined the Meadville Lombard faculty in 2012 after serving eight years in the parish and earning her Ph.D. at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her research interests include religion, business, mobility, and material culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Kirk’s publications include Wanamaker’s Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store (New York University Press, 2018, 2023) and chapters in several edited volumes. Over the years, Rev. Kirk has met and worked with many of Meadville Lombard’s international partners in the Czech Republic, Japan, and Transylvania. In 2023, the Religious Society of Czech Unitarians gave Dr. Kirk the Award for Supporting Czech Unitarianism.
