Wayne B. Arnason

A light-skinned male minister with silver hair and wire-rimmed glasses wearing a stole and standing at a pulpit.

The Rev. Dr. Wayne Arnason retired in 2016 after a forty-year career in parish ministry, UUA staff and volunteer governance roles within Unitarian Universalism. He has served as President of the UU Ministers Association, Secretary of the UUA, and Chair of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee. In retirement Wayne has engaged in UU historical scholarship, interim ministry, and consultation. He co-authored with his wife Rev. Kathleen Rolenz the widely-read book on UU worship "Worship That Works"(Skinner House, 2nd edition 2017).

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Overview of the Context and Premises for this Training Model West Shore’s worship associates team was established in 2001. Most years the team had as many as six people, serving overlapping two-year terms. People had to apply for the program, and understood they could only serve two years. The...

By Wayne B. Arnason, Kathleen Rolenz, West Shore UU Church, Rocky River, OH | September 3, 2019 | From LeaderLab
Tagged as: Worship Tips, Worship

2019 Edition Religion in Life for Scouts BSA is a program in Unitarian Universalist identity for ages 12 to 17.

Curriculum | By Gail Forsyth-Vail, Wayne B. Arnason, Richard S. Gilbert | July 12, 2019 (reviewed July 2024) | For Youth | From Faith Curriculum Library
Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development

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.

Book | By Wayne B. Arnason, Kathleen Rolenz, Nancy McDonald Ladd | From Skinner House Books
Tagged as: UU Theology, Worship

This book shares the insights of 17 ministers and lay leaders—Unitarian Universalists who have become Buddhists while maintaining their UU identity and Buddhists who have found a spiritual home in Unitarian Universalism.

Book | By Sam Trumbore, Wayne B. Arnason | From Skinner House Books
Tagged as: Buddhism

O God, whom we know as love, we gather here this morning as seekers and finders, creators and destroyers, givers and receivers of love....

Meditation | By Wayne B. Arnason | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Direct Experience, Generations, God, Healing, Love, Relationships, Searching

Ten years ago, I was asked to present a paper to a new ministers’ study group that was forming at Cedar Hill, a small conference center near Boston. The group had chosen a perennial topic for UU clergy study groups: "Science and Religion." My job was to review one of the books we’d read in...

Sermon | By Wayne B. Arnason | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Growth, Psychology, Self-Care, Spirituality

Spirit of Life, We are here as a community dedicated to all that is good and just and beautiful. We ask that we might be strengthened in our dedication to a better world. In time of war, when national pride and anger overwhelms the call for world community, We would remember all those around the...

Meditation | By Wayne B. Arnason | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Globalism

There was an elderly man in England named Arthur Flowerdew. He’d lived his whole life in the seaside town of Norfolk, and had left England only once, to journey to the French coast. All his life, however, Arthur Flowerdew had been plagued by vivid mental pictures of a great city surrounded by...

Sermon | By Wayne B. Arnason | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Buddhism, Death, Growth

We join together now in a time of meditation or prayer, spoken at first and then for a time in the peace that silence brings.

Meditation | By Wayne B. Arnason | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Connections, Gratitude, Interdependence, Memorial Day, Unitarian Universalism

Spirit of Life, We pause to give thanks for many gifts of life that are ours, gifts we find expressed and enhanced in the community of this church. We are grateful for our family and friends and all they mean to us....

Meditation | By Wayne B. Arnason | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Caring

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