Erica Baron

Full name: Rev. Erica Baron

Congregational Consultant

New England Region in Congregational Life

Email: ebaron@uua.org

Telephone: (617) 948-4604

Erica Baron

Erica Baron, Congregational Consultant in the New England Region

Rev. Erica Baron joined the New England region staff in 2019, focusing on helping congregations live into their missions and develop their gifts for spiritual leadership. Before joining the Congregational Life staff, she served as parish minister for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills in Kingston, NY, as well as the congregations in Rutland and Bennington, VT. She is a graduate of Andover Newton Theological School.

From Erica Baron

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We have talked to many congregations recently reporting that they don’t have enough volunteers to fill open board and committee roles. We don’t expect this to change anytime soon — and that might not be bad. UU congregations in the last century — largely white, middle- and upper-class —...

By Erica Baron | April 11, 2022 | From Practice Makes Possible Blog
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What is a covenant? For most of my time as a leader in Unitarian Universalism, I have understood covenant to be the words we use to describe the agreements we make to each other. What I have learned over time is that the words are more like a map. They help us understand the covenant....

By Erica Baron | January 20, 2022 | From Covenanting
Tagged as: Covenant
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Several years ago the New England Region team was creating the first version of our Spiritual Leadership framework. We identified 5 practices that help UU congregations to bring forth and support the spiritual leadership of everyone in the congregation. One of these practices we named “Binding to...

By Erica Baron | December 15, 2021 | From Tending to Tradition
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Woullard Lett: Where are we before we are born? What happens after we die? These questions have been answered differently by different cultures throughout the ages....

By Erica Baron, Woullard Lett | October 26, 2021 | From Tending to Tradition
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As we have engaged UUs around New England in reflecting on living in covenant, we on regional staff have noticed an assumption so foundational that it is often revealed in storytelling but rarely said directly. That is: We can be either in covenant or in conflict, but not both at the same time....

By Erica Baron | June 23, 2021 | From Covenanting
Tagged as: Covenant
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Friends, move toward your purpose. Remember what is most essential. Let the rest go. We are here if you need help. 

By Erica Baron | February 23, 2021 | From Doing Our Inner Work
Tagged as: Principles and Purposes
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What's the best way to organize your congregation for using Zoom services? This guide will help you determine your needs.

By Erica Baron | November 22, 2020 | From LeaderLab
Tagged as: #COVID19, Worship
Sujitno Sajuti stands in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Meriden, Connecticut, the day after he and his wife, Dahlia, took sanctuary from his scheduled deportation to Indonesia.

Faithful congregations take faithful risks. In this post, we lift up examples of the faithful risks New England Region congregations have taken recently. The UU Meeting House of Pittsfield, ME When they lost their longtime minister and realized they could not afford to hire another professional...

By Erica Baron | September 29, 2020 | From Faithful Risking
Tagged as: Living Our Faith, Immigration
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So, friends, let’s practice together. I invite you to engage in some reflection about whether and how you are bringing that individualism into your practice of covenant and what a deeper practice of covenant can make possible for us. 

By Erica Baron | September 21, 2020 | From Covenanting
Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Christianity, Covenant, Covenant, Judaism, Six Sources
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Come, practice with us, and let’s see what’s possible! We are launching a new blog called Tending to Spiritual Leadership, which will share offerings on how we can engage the practices of spiritual leadership to make more things possible.

By Erica Baron | August 3, 2020 | From Practice Makes Possible Blog
Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Practice

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