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Nancy McDonald Ladd

Full name: Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd

Nancy McDonald Ladd

The Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd is senior minister of River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bethesda, Maryland.

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GA Presentations | General Assembly

Beyond Optimism

Nancy McDonald Ladd

From General Assembly Presentations
Workshop video. For generations, liberal pulpits have rung with grand sermons about progress “onward and upward forever,” yet our people struggle to make sense of both their own suffering and enduring injustice all around us.

Skinner House Books

Cover of Worship That Works, Second Edition
Worship That Works
Theory and Practice for Unitarian Universalists

Wayne B Arnason, Kathleen Rolenz, Nancy McDonald Ladd

From Skinner House Books

The second edition of this classic UU text includes revisions and new chapters on multicultural worship, multigenerational worship, and new models of services for contemporary practices.

UU World

Illustration of two cupped hands and water dripping out of them.
Nothing we do will be perfect

Nancy McDonald Ladd

From UU World Magazine
To work for justice, religious liberals should let perfectionism go.
Praying hands in Tahrir Square - Cairo, Egypt
The call to prayer

Nancy McDonald Ladd

From UU World Magazine
I truly do not care if a god ever hears me when I pray, but praying together with others is among the most transformative work that I do.
illustration of two faces in different colors
Universalism in practice

Nancy McDonald Ladd

From UU World Magazine
Black lives matter, because you do not have to be ‘good enough’ to deserve basic human rights.
Holy family

Nancy McDonald Ladd

From UU World Magazine
A family holy enough to merit the highest forms of reverence.

WorshipWeb

A Fierce and Compelling Power

Nancy McDonald Ladd

From WorshipWeb
If God’s name is love, then God compels us to resist the fall to sinful violence by pushing back with muscular resolve against the social structures tha...
A Black woman raises a black bandana which reads "Black Lives Matter" in a crowd of people
One Piece of a Deeply Sacred Whole

Nancy McDonald Ladd

From WorshipWeb
When we say, "Save the rainforest," we don’t mean that we cease to honor the mighty cedars or the reaching pines. We mean that one particular piece of a...
with spotlights above, two wrestlers are locked into a clinch against the ropes of a wrestling ring
Tapping Out of Fake Fights

Nancy McDonald Ladd

From WorshipWeb
This reading is an excerpt of the sermon delivered by Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd on Sunday morning at General Assembly 2016....

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