Rev. Soto (who uses the personal pronouns they/them/theirs) brings a remarkably loving presence and a depth of spiritual leadership. They are invested in working collaboratively with the congregation to live more deeply into our mission and vision. They have said, “While I am prepared to lead a congregation, I want to do it in partnership with them, their dreams, their ideas, and their dearest values.” Rev. Soto comes to us most recently from Ashland, Oregon, where they served as an affiliated Community Minister at Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. They also serve as co-chair of the Journey Toward Wholeness Transformation Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and co-vice president of Diverse Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries (DRUMM). DRUUMM is a Unitarian Universalist People of Color Ministry and anti-racist collective bringing lay and religious professionals together to overcome racism through resistance and transform Unitarian Universalism.
They are a graduate of Quinnipiac University School of Law and Meadville Lombard Theological School. Their partner is the Rev. Sean Parker Dennison.
Rev. Soto comes to ministry after careers in education and law. Sometimes people ask what the connection is between those fields: simply that all three are different paths to making the world a better place.
If you are curious about Rev. Soto, please visit their website: revtheresalovesyou.com, or search their sermons on YouTube.
If you ask Perry Como, he will tell you it looks a lot like Christmas when you have too much to do, but the landscape is snow-covered and idyllic. Maybe. In 1849, Edward Sears, a Unitarian minister wrote the words to, “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” as a melancholy reflection on real life at … Continue reading A Midnight Clear: Insight from Stillness
If you’re joining us for the first time, we would like to extend a full welcome! Please answer a few questions on our Guest Connection Card. * * * Join Tara Miller and Rev. Theresa Soto in an exploration of Everyday Healing Practices. We will listen to poems and music and sing, meditate, and reflect. There … Continue reading Everyday Healing
If you’re joining us for the first time, we would like to extend a full welcome! Please answer a few questions on our Guest Connection Card. * * * The ritual of breaking bread together is one that has been shared by the human family in various forms for millennia: giving thanks for the harvest, a … Continue reading We Gotta Let the Dough Rise: Bread Communion
If you’re joining us for the first time, we would like to extend a full welcome! Please answer a few questions on our Guest Connection Card. * * * “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” -Tin Man, Wizard of Oz It turns out that we have expansive and impractical hearts. What do … Continue reading Heart Medicine: Continued Healing in a Pandemic
If you’re joining us for the first time, we would like to extend a full welcome! Please answer a few questions on our Guest Connection Card. * * * Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. // Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one [travels]. —Gloria Anzaldúa Chicana scholar and feminist … Continue reading No hay/puentes—Bridges/no bridges—What Lies Ahead
If you’re joining us for the first time, we would like to extend a full welcome! Please answer a few questions on our Guest Connection Card. * * * As we explore healing this month, Pastor Theresa asks you to prepare a few things. What’s the worst advice you’ve ever received that you can share? Remember that … Continue reading Don’t Put Your Head in the Waffle Iron and Other Advice Nobody Needs: Healing Practices in Our Community
If you’re joining us for the first time, we would like to extend a full welcome! Please answer a few questions on our Guest Connection Card. * * * What does that mean for deep listening, to one another and to the world? When we talk about listening, we are actually referring to making meaning from … Continue reading Holding the Light
If you’re joining us for the first time, we would like to extend a full welcome! Please answer a few questions on our Guest Connection Card. * * * This prerecorded service will give us a chance to explore how small is good and what the pandemic is revealing about treasures that lie there. Pastor Theresa … Continue reading Small Is Good
If you’re joining us for the first time, we would like to extend a full welcome! Please answer a few questions on our Guest Connection Card. * * * Where many things are uncertain, we will move with as much clarity as possible. We will take some time before the Annual Meeting to lean into our … Continue reading Cinderella and the Barking Pig: Keeping Our Mission Clear in Times of Disruption
If you’re joining us for the first time, we would like to extend a full welcome! Please answer a few questions on our Guest Connection Card. * * * Leonardo daVinci is known for art and inventions, but he also said that “[w]ater is the driving force of all nature.” This Sunday, we will have a … Continue reading People Gonna Rise Like the Water
