The Reverend Wayne Arnason
Wayne Arnason was appointed chair of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee in 2008. He previously served four years as the Board representative on the Ministerial Fellowship Committee from 2001-2005.
Wayne has had a thirty-five year career of service as a minister in all sizes of Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations and on the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) staff. He has shared the parish co-ministry with his wife the Rev. Kathleen Rolenz at the West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, a 550 member church on the west side of Cleveland, Ohio, since 2000. Previously, Wayne served in a long-term parish ministry at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church in Charlottesville, Virginia beginning in 1984.
Wayne was elected to two terms as a Trustee-at-Large on the Board of the UUA and served as the Secretary of the Association, supervising election and certification procedures. He has also served two terms as a member of the UU Ministers Association Executive Committee and was President of the UU Ministers Association (UUMA) from 1994-1995.
Wayne is the co-author of two books in the current Skinner House catalog: Worship That Works (2007) and We Would Be One: A History of the UU Youth Movements (2005).
Wayne is a fourth generation Unitarian Universalist from the Icelandic Canadian Unitarian tradition. He grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba and retains his Canadian citizenship. He is married to the Reverend Kathleen Rolenz, with whom he. has three adult children. His personal spiritual practice is rooted in Zen Buddhism, as a student of John Daido Loori, Abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, NY. He serves as President of the UU Buddhist Fellowship.
Last updated on Monday, June 9, 2008.
