When you hear that question, what is your answer? Can you or can you not? Science offers us answers to the age old question. If we want a growing church, and a successful settled ministry, it is one we aught to consider. The path to Beloved Community is long and there is room for all of us on the path. Join us for this exploration of the journey.

Rev. Denise currently is the Interim Minister at Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist in Palatine, IL a Chicago Suburb and lives with her partner, Rev. Matt Aspin, who serves a congregation in Hartland, WI. She is a graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. She has served congregations in Oregon, Illinois and Wisconsin and provided spiritual and emotional support chaplaincy at Planned Parenthood. She worked in non-profit management for more than 20 years and has been pivotal player in diversity, inclusion, marriage equality, and voting rights for over two decades. Reverend Denise brings visual arts, interactive rituals, and dramatic storytelling into her ministry. Artmaking is a vivid part of her spiritual practice too. “Ministry lets me combine my greatest loves: advocacy, social justice, art, play, and writing into my life’s calling, which is to inspire people to love with vulnerability and passion,” says Reverend Denise.

Worship Leader: Rev. Denise Cawley

Worship Hosts: Sally Cooperrider & and the Ministerial Search Committee