Angie Reed Garner is a second-generation narrative figure painter and second-generation Unitarian Universalist who has been exhibiting actively since 1996, with seven solo shows in the United States and in Europe.

The Rev. Ken Reeves, PhD, is an ordained minister, clinical psychologist, therapist, and teacher. He has served congregations as pastor and created and taught courses on systems theory and congregational conflict as an adjunct professor at Andover Newton Theological School....

Alexandra Lytton Regalado received an MFA in poetry from Florida International University and an MFA in fiction from Pacific University. She is the author of Matria (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), which received the St. Lawrence Book Award. Regalado is co-director of Editorial Kalina and editor of...

Margaret Regan has a bachelor's degree in French from the University of Pennsylvania. She studied French at the Sorbonne in Paris and Spanish in a tiny school in Antigua, Guatemala, and has traveled in Europe, Central America and Mexico....

David Reich was editor of UU World from 1992 to 2001.

Gil Rendle is former senior vice president for the Texas Methodist Foundation as well as former senior consultant and director of consulting for the Alban Institute. As an ordained minister with a PhD in organizational and group dynamics, he has worked with congregations across denominations for...

Longtime Alban senior consultant Gil Rendle is a United Methodist clergyperson with 15 years of parish experience. He also has extensive experience as a congregational and judicatory consultant.

Raquel V. Reyes is a member of the UU Congregation of Miami, where she's a past worship chair, and a co-organizer of Biscayne Unitarian Church (2012-2014). Her poetry and fiction often focus on identity and place. "Representation matters" is a chorus she chants....

Jason Reynolds is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many books, including When I Was the Greatest, Boy in the Black Suit, All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), As Brave as You, For Every One, the Track series, Long Way Down, and Look Both Ways. He is a two-time National Book...

Peter H. Reynolds is the renowned illustrator behind the bestselling Judy Moody and Stink series as well as many other bestselling and award-winning picture books, including TheDot and Ish. He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Helena Ku Rhee is a writer of books for kids and the young at heart. Helena is currently based in Los Angeles (her hometown), but she has also lived in various parts of the U.S., Asia and Europe. She loves to travel far and wide across this beautiful planet, counting among her favorite journeys a...

Rev. William Brooks Rice (1905-1970), a Unitarian Universalist minister, was the chair of the Universalist and Unitarian Joint Merger Commission. He was later recognized as "the chief architect" of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Read more about his life and ministry here.

Emily Richards (she/hers/her) is the Director of Religious Exploration at the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca (NY). She has been a UU since she was a teenager when she found the community of her heart. She is also a mother, singer, choral conductor, educator, self-proclaimed geek, and gamer.

Michelle Richards is a religious education consultant for the Central Midwest District and a credentialed religious educator....

Chad and Dad Richardson are a son-and-father writing team. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Chad is a financial analyst who lives in Columbus, Ohio. Dad, otherwise known as Charles, is an Associate Professor of Management and Marketing at Sinclair Community College and lives in Liberty...

Jessica Richie is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Good Enough, the executive director of the Everything Happens Project at Duke Divinity School, and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast. She received her MDiv from Duke Divinity School.

David Richo (pronouned REE-koh), Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist, teacher, workshop leader, and writer who works in Santa Barbara and San Francisco California. He combines Jungian, poetic, and mythic perspectives in his work with the intention of integrating the psychological and the spiritual.

Rachel Ricketts is a queer, multi-racial Black woman. As a global thought leader, racial justice educator, healer, speaker, and writer, she hosts intersectional racial justice workshops worldwide, including her renowned Spiritual Activism series....

Julie Rigano (she/they) is a religious educator and lifelong UU currently serving as the Director of Family Ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing.

Jonathan Rigsby is a crime intelligence analyst for the state of Florida during the day and a rideshare driver by night. He lives in Tallahassee with his son. He has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies from the...

Cole Arthur Riley is the creator of Black Liturgies, a space for Black spiritual words of liberation, lament, rage, and rest; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Executive Curator....

Amanda Ripley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World, High Conflict, and The Unthinkable. She writes for The Atlantic, Politico, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant and police-misconduct attorney, and a 2014 Senior Soros Justice Fellow, with more than two decades of experience advocating against police violence and the criminalization of women and LGBTQ people of color....

Susan J. Ritchie is the minister of the North Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Lewis Center, Ohio, and the director of the Unitarian Universalist House of Studies at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. She is the author of Children of the Same God: The Historical Relationship Between...

Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. His honors include being named the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia and receiving the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra. He is the author of 5 previous full-length poetry books. His 3rd book, lo...