Manish Mishra-Marzetti

Rev. Manish K. Mishra-Marzetti serves as senior minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the co-editor of Conversations with the Sacred: A Collection of Prayers (2020) and the 2018-2019 UUA common read, Justice on Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and the Environment. He has served extensively in Unitarian Universalist leadership, including as a member of the UUA Board of Trustees, president of the Diverse and Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM), commissioner on the UUA Commission on Appraisal, secretary of the board of Starr King School for the Ministry, and as an author and advocate of the 2007 General Assembly resolution confronting gender identity-related discrimination. He brings to the ministry his multicultural experience serving as a U.S. diplomat during the Clinton administration

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Editors Manish Mishra-Marzetti and Nancy McDonald Ladd and contributors explore how to foster and nourish diverse and authentic leadership within congregations—to not just exist but to succeed.

Book | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Nancy McDonald Ladd | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
Tagged as: Community, Diversity, Faith, Justice, Leadership, Social Justice

Video: The pandemic has wrought change and created uncertainty for our congregations and our wider world. Who and what are we becoming, individually and collectively? Our GA Sunday service explores these themes as we gather in community to celebrate the best of who we UUs are.

By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | June 25, 2023
Tagged as: Online GA, General Assembly

Video: The pandemic has wrought change and created uncertainty for our congregations and our wider world. Who and what are we becoming, individually and collectively? Our GA Sunday service explores these themes as we gather in community to celebrate the best of who we UUs are.

By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | June 25, 2023
Tagged as: Online GA, General Assembly

Prayer creates relationship where otherwise there might be none.

By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | June 1, 2020 | From UU World
Tagged as: Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality

A new disease, without any cure, is pushing us apart. And, yet, we cannot escape one another. We need one another. Whether I acknowledge it or not, the guarantee of safety does not exist.

Reflection | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | April 15, 2020 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: #COVID19, 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Coming Out, Direct Experience, Fear, Humanism, Illness, Interdependence, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Relationships, Secular, Shame, Vulnerability

Bringing alive the heartfelt words and artwork contributed by creators diverse in spiritual perspective and identity, Conversations with the Sacred is a moving testimony to the power of prayer.

Book | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Jennifer Kelleher | From Skinner House Books
Tagged as: Arts & Music, Prayer Practices, Sacred

The power of grace to save us, to move us towards our best and truest selves, even when we don’t know what we’re looking for or what we need, is amazing and beautiful. What a blessing it is for me that Unitarian Universalism has been a part of the grace that has shaped and transformed my life.

By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | June 4, 2018 | From Uplift

The 2018-19 UUA Common Read Fourteen activist ministers and lay leaders apply a keen intersectional analysis to the environmental crisis, revealing ways that systems of oppression intersect with and contribute to ecological devastation.

Book | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Jennifer Nordstrom | From Skinner House Books
Tagged as: Climate Justice, Racial Justice

I thought I was traveling to Detroit to participate in a think tank, but it was so much deeper and more profound than that.

By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | November 1, 2017 | From UU World
Tagged as: Interdependence, Justice, Social Justice

The universe sings no less because time and space wear us thin. The music calls us to recognize our limitations, to recognize that the song is best sung with others.

Closing | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | April 26, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Arts & Music, Community, Limitations, Wonder

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