I am fairly new to First Unitarian Universalist of Syracuse. Reverend Jennifer had created a congregation that is a community of friends and faith that care deeply for the world we live in as well as each other. I have been impressed with the amount … read more.
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The Search Committee (comprised of Steve Doles, Susan Wadley and Pamela Spearman) interviewed faer on Monday, May 23. Molly was engaging, energetic, and very thoughtful in faer answers to the interview questions. Molly demonstrated a keen enthusiasm for crucial components of the congregation’s life such as religious/youth education, adult education, collaboration with the worship committee, and social justice work, amongst others. Fae had a realistic sense of the challenges posed by the contemporary moment and the hybrid form of service, while also indicating a willingness to work to meet the challenges as effectively as possible. Fae has a deep concern for inclusion across lines of ability and neurodiversity, a trait that we believe would serve our congregation well. Fae would also bring a history of work with the Poor People's Campaign and experience with practices of civil disobedience, and gave a very thoughtful account of how this experience might contribute to the church's social justice work at a time when progressive values are in retreat and traditional channels of public participation like voting increasingly unable to effect change.
Fae has a personal commitment to Pagan spiritual beliefs, but also expressed an expansive and mutualistic understanding of theology and the role that fae would play in the congregation. Faers worship services would be well-organized and thematically coherent, while also not being entirely predictable for congregants and thus able to create a sense of surprise or thinking about things in a new way for congregants.
You can learn more about Rev Molly Hammerhand (formerly Brewer) at faer website https://www.revmollybrewer.com/
