Rev. Tess Baumberger has served Unitarian Universalist congregations in New Hampshire and Massachusetts since 2003, including a couple years at UU Medford! She has also served as a chaplain in both hospital and hospice settings. She currently lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts and serves the church in Essex. She enjoys writing, cooking and knitting in her spare time.
Join us for our Sunday Service led by Rev. Tess Baumberger What Resilience Isn’t: We have many toxic ideas about resilience in our society. We tend to see resilience as an individual trait or strength such as “grit” or “mental toughness” or “powering through” or “bouncing back.” Today, some myth-busting around resilience, and the truth … Continue reading Sunday Service: What Resilience Isn’t
Join us for our Sunday worship service led by Rev. Tess Baumberger. This Sunday, a longer spiritual meditation on compassion and setting boundaries, and a shorter sermon or homily on the connection between humility and compassion. How would the history of our nation and world be different if the Doctrine of Discovery (an edict from … Continue reading Sunday Service: Humility and Compassion
Our Sunday Service will be led by Rev. Tess Baumberger. In her beautiful and poetic book, Loving Our Own Bones, Rabbi Julia Watts Belser argues that if we’re all created in the image of the Divine, then every body is sacred. Rabbi Belser is disabled, and speaks movingly of how an ableist world is not good for … Continue reading Sunday Service – In God’s Image: Disability Justice
Join us for our Sunday Service, led by Rev. Tess Baumberger. She will talk about the legend of Tikkun Olam and ways we can work to shore up democracy and repair our part of the world. Our service will be in person in our sanctuary. If you can’t join us in person, you are welcome … Continue reading Sunday Service: Tikkum Olam – World Repair
