Our Minister
Our minister is the
Rev.
Dr. Cynthia Landrum. Cindy grew up in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan,
and grew up UU, attending the Birmingham Unitarian Church in Bloomfield
Hills. She received her B.A. in English and Psychology from the
University of Michigan, and her M.A. in English from the University of
Georgia, where her thesis was titled, Narratives in the AIDS Service
Community. She attended Meadville Lombard Theological School
for her D.Min., where her doctoral thesis was on The Future of
Unitarian Universalist Feminism: Interviews with Third-Wave Women
Ministers. Cindy held student ministries in Marquette and
Houghton, MI, an internship in Milwaukee, WI, and summer ministries in
Rockford, IL and Rochester, NY. Cindy served briefly in Houston,
TX, and was ordained as a Unitarian
Universalist minister in 2002 by the Unitarian Universalist Society
of Gardner, Massachusetts, where she served before becoming our minister
in August of 2004. Cindy lives in the Jackson area along with
her husband, Peter Morrison; daughter; and two cats.
Cindy's ministry is grounded in her
experience of being raised Unitarian Universalist and seeing the power
that Unitarian Universalism has to affect lives and change the world.
She is passionate about religious education, social justice, and
diversity, particularly the diverse theologies found in our faith.
As a humanist raised by UU Christians, and having explored and
incorporated aspects of feminist theology and Paganism into her life,
she believes in weaving together these faiths and others to create a
church where we "live our religion" through worship, social mission, and
religious education.
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