Meet Our Director of Religious Exploration
BFUU is hiring a new Director of Religious Exploration to begin August 2010. The job announcement is here.
Our Former Director of Religious Exploration
On January 1, 2010, the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU) welcomed Beth Dana as part-time Director of Religious Exploration. Beth was charged with building and growing BFUU's Religious Exploration Program. She focused on community outreach, curriculum development, and teacher training/support - to attract families and build a Unitarian Universalist religious exploration program for all ages. "I look forward to working with BFUU to grow the RE program, nurture spiritually alive and socially aware young people, and to build a multigenerational congregational community," said Beth.
Beth has been a student at Pacific School of Religion (Graduate Theological Union) since 2008, when she moved to Berkeley from New York. She grew up in the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany, New York, where she was active in her congregation's religious education program and youth group. She served in various district and continental leadership roles as a youth, including as a youth ministry and anti-racism/anti-oppression trainer with the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). While working toward her B.A. in Religious Studies and Metropolitan Studies at New York University, she took a two-year leave to work at the UUA in Boston. In this position, she provided staff support and coordination for the Consultation on Ministry To and With Youth, which was an assessment of Unitarian Universalist youth ministry. She has been a Unitarian Universalist religious education participant, teacher, curriculum author, and advocate.
About the appointment of Ms. Dana to her new position, the Rev. Ben Meyers, consulting minister to the BFUU said, "We are excited to have Beth join our leadership team. Her presence is part of our continuing commitment to share our Unitarian Universalist principles and values with the greater Berkeley community."
For more information about the RE program, contact dre @ bfuu.org
BFUU Religious Exploration Links:
Religious Exploration Home Page
