Barbara Child is an accredited interim minister, retired from full-time ministry in 2010. She continues to serve congregations as short-term consultant and continues to serve ministers as mentor. She serves on the Board of the UU Retired Ministers and Partners Association. With Keith Kron, she edited In the Interim: Strategies for Interim Ministers and Congregations. She lives in a log cabin in the woods in Brown County, Indiana. Her memoir, Memories of a Vietnam Veteran: What I Have Remembered and What He Could Not Forget was published in 2019. .