Organizations/VIPs/Other Individuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories.
Involvement and Affiliations:
Worship and Music Resources Director, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Member, Unitarian Universalist Ministers' Association
Member, Spiritual Directors International
Former Senior Minister, First Parish Brewster, Unitarian Universalist, MA
Pastor, First Universalist Church of Yarmouth, ME, 1995-2006
Former intern, First Parish in Concord, MA
Former juggler, clown, magician, fire-eater, escape-artist and mask-maker
Education:
Attended Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, Bethesda, MD MDiv, Harvard Divinity School
Contact Info:
Phone: 617-948-6428 Fax: None found Email:ewikstrom@uua.org Website: None found
Select Publications:
"A 'Christian Nation' at Christmas?" OnFaith.WashingtonPost.com, Dec. 23, 2010
"Q&A with Erik Walker Wikstrom," Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations website, www.UUA.org, June 2, 2010
"Love Thy Illegal Immigrant Neighbor," OnFaith.WashingtonPost.com, May 25, 2010
"Do We Still Believe in Miracles?" OnFaith.WashingtonPost.com, Feb. 19, 2010
Serving with Grace: Lay Leadership as a Spiritual Practice, 2010
"Would Jesus Watch Reality TV?" OnFaith.WashingtonPost.com, Sep. 4, 2009
"Spirit in Practice: Ten Workshops for Unitarian Universalist Adults – A Tapestry of Faith Program for Adults," Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations website, www.UUA.org, 2008
"Two Dimensions of Marriage," Cape Cod Times, Dec. 22, 2006
"An Old Friend," Christian Voices in Unitarian Universalism: contemporary essays, Ed. Kathleen Rolenz, 2006
Simply Pray: A Modern Spritual Practice to Deepen Your Life, 2005
"Jesus and the Modern Seeker," UU World: The Magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association, Jan./Feb. 2004
Teacher, Guide, Companion: Rediscovering Jesus in a Secular Age, 2003
"Prayer," Everyday Spiritual Practice: Simple Pathways for Enriching Your Life, Ed. Scott Alexander, 1999
Other:
Raised a Presbyterian
Ordained as the youngest elder in the Long Island Presbytery
Attended summer camps of the New York Conference of the United Methodist Church
Lives on Cape Cod, MA, with his wife and two sons
"...I was raised within the Christian traditions, studied Zen Buddhism for over twenty years, and have a passionate interest in Wicca and Shamanism."
Unitarian Universalist
Spiritual Directors' Network profile, www.UUSDN.org (accessed Jan. 25, 2011)
"In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I spent several years in what came to be called the 'clown ministry' movement. I traveled from church to church, an itinerant nondenominational preacher sharing a vision of Jesus quite different from the one on which I'd been raised: a Jesus whose hair was matted, whose robe was stained, and who preached from a boat. We clown ministers emphasized the humanity of Jesus... We preached Jesus the Jester, Jesus the Child, Jesus the Holy Fool."
"Jesus and the Modern Seeker," UU World: The Magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association, Jan./Feb. 2004
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