Category: Faculty & Staff

I recall my first summer trip back home after my first year of college. I needed those few weeks at my parents’ kitchen table, the long walks with high school friends, and the pickup game with my neighbors. After a year of many adjustments brought about by the college experience of being away from home,…

There is a hard lesson I had to learn, and learn it well I did. It goes like this: in any interaction in which I find myself in a position to make a case for my dignity and self-worth, I run two great risks. The first risk is ceding too much ground to attempts to…

As someone who has been teaching and writing about climate change for many years, I am painfully aware of the gravity of the crisis. But I’ve come to believe that the moral complexity of the climate problem creates an opportunity to discover the practice of spiritual resilience. Climate change imperils everything that matters to us,…

Last summer, we launched the search for the new faculty position that our supporters’ generosity and faith in our work made possible: The Rev. Dr. Lee Barker Professorship of Leadership Studies. It is with great delight that we announce the selection of Rev. Kathryn House, Ph.D. as our Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Practical…

Latinx Presidents and Deans of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS), including Meadville Lombard President, Dr. Elías Ortega, have issued a statement on violence against Latinx communities. We live in unprecedented times. There are over 3 million dead worldwide from novel coronavirus, and over half a million of those in the United States alone. We…

There are momentous events that get etched into our memories as signposts, demarcating life before and after. The impact of such events ripples through our lives—whether personal, communal, or collective—in unimaginable ways. It may be the birth of a long-expected child. Or a beloved person transitioning into ancestor status. They may also take the form…

7th Principle: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. This summer my family and I spent a few days in L’Anse Township, located in Baraga County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. After months of living life within the confines of my home, where I spent most of my days at…

There’s a memory of an impromptu holiday family gathering that I treasure. Outside of funerals, weddings, or life passages, that out-of-the-blue gathering stands out in my memory as the only time my family, a family that rarely managed the goodwill towards one another to invest time to be together, gathered in celebration.  On that day,…

This fall, Rev. Tandi Rogers, Affiliated Faculty, will start teaching the Spiritual Direction Formation & Certification program offered by the Leadership Institute for Growth, Healing, and Transformation (LIGHT) at Meadville Lombard. We asked her about her ministerial journey, spiritual direction, and her vision for the future of Unitarian Universalism. ML: What was your journey to where you are…

Our supporters’ generous gifts gave us opportunities to bring in outstanding scholars like Dr. Elyse Ambrose, who joined our faculty as Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethical Leadership and Society and Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow for two academic years starting in the summer of 2020. Dr. Ambrose’s research, community work, and art are intricately interwoven at…