Imagining Reconciliation

What ethical lessons does the faithful study of history bring us? Join us for an exploration of what it means to hold our ancestors as people worthy of our love, compassion, and forgiveness, and to imagine new futures together. Taking the Salem Witch Trials as a case study, how can New England History serve to ground us in hope for reconciliation and change? Rosemary will share how she has been moved out of her own disbelief through stories, faith, and radical forgiveness in community.

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Rosemary Dodd grew up with the Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma. She holds sacred the Redwood forests where she grew up going to UU camp and the rocky coast of Sonoma County. She was called into ministry by her Unitarian Universalist youth communities in Northern California, and is a graduate of Wellesley College ‘18 and Harvard Divinity School ‘23. Rosemary is an avid crocheter, sewist, walker, and baker who loves art, color, and dinner with friends. She will be serving as the Ministerial Intern at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento August ‘23-June ‘24.