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Rev. Naomi King |
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Warm greetings! I’m the
Rev. Naomi King, Minister of River of Grass Unitarian Universalist
Congregation. I am honored to serve at the spiritual center of our community’s religious life, through worship, teaching, pastoral care, and public witness and advocacy. I’m one part of a terrific staff team and a much larger network of lay leaders who make sure our congregation is practicing its mission of transforming Southeast Florida one family at a time! My favorite part of ministry is worship; I love that experience of transcending the daily obstacle course, of experiencing a sense of unity with life, and of generating tremendous joy and energy that equips me for the week to come. Great worship takes me into the depth of my being, awakens my senses, feeds my spirit, and connects me more fully to the world in which we live. I am partnered with the Rev. Dr. Thandeka, who is also a Unitarian Universalist minister, theologian, and Research Professor with Meadville Lombard Theological School. We live in Plantation, Florida and in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as we serve our callings to ministry. One of the things I love about Unitarian Universalism is that we truly stand on the side of love in serving and celebrating all kinds of families. You may read Rev. Naomi King's recent sermons at Sermons |
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| Education: | B.A. in Cultural Studies, University of
Southern Maine M.Div., Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Honors: | 2005 Stewardship Sermon Award, co-sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (UUMA), the Annual Program Fund (APF), and the Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA), 2007 Minister of the Week for Ferry Beach Religious Educators Week, “R.E.:Evangelizing” |
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Annual Program Fund, UUMA-APF Liaison Project Harvest Hope Unitarian Universalist Historical Society |
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Journals: |
Ode
Magazine, The Horn Book Reader,
and Homiletics are three
favorites |
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T.V.: |
I’m a sucker for formula forensic shows,
and particularly like the writing and editing on CSI:Miami |
| Hobbies: | I
enjoy knitting, reading, cooking, and gardening the most. I always have
more to learn in
each of
them |
| On
the iPod? |
Currently, if it is
danceable and deals directly in shifting emotions then I’m interested –
salsa, hip-hop, afro-pop, Lebanese and North African pop music, other
forms of world music, jazz. I listen to a wide range of gospel (old and
new) and folk music besides. Beyond the iPod, my favorite lyricists are
Bruce Springsteen and Mary Chapin Carpenter, because they build their
recordings liturgically: there’s the same movement of gathering,
focusing and going deeper and wider at the same time, and then
releasing people back into the world, transformed. |
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| A book or author I'm currently recommending? | Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases; Leonie Swan, Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story; Isabelle Allende, Ines, of My Soul; Scott Westerfeld, Uglies (and the rest of the series!); Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History; David Anderson, Breakfast Epipanies: Finding Wonder in Everyday Life; and, for the aspiring Pirate: Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age |
| What do
you do when you’re down? |
Generally, musical prayer. I often try to sing my way out of it, beginning with whatever is nagging at me, whatever earwurm has wriggled out of my spirit. But if I can’t move from there, that’s what all the dance music is for on the iPod. |
Correspondence Information
Rev. Naomi King, Minister
324 S. University Drive Phone: 954-474-2007 Fax: 954-474-2022 
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