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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Prayer - Wayne Arnason 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: God, Love

I invite you now into a quiet time, a time for spoken and silent contemplation. Spirit of Life, we have come into each other's presence this day seeking a part of ourselves, knowing that we do not live alone, and knowing we cannot live fully if we are for ourselves alone....

Prayer | By Wayne B. Arnason | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Commitment, Connections, Humility, Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday

Spirit of Life, The beginning of the holiday season is filled with temptations to conspicuous consumptions, and pleas for generosity. The contrasts between the values represented by this time of year, and our ability to fulfill them, remind us how great the distance can be between aspirations and...

Prayer | By Wayne B. Arnason | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Advent, Balance, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Hanukkah, Patience, Service, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability, Winter Solstice / Yule

The gospels are full of stories about Jesus healing. The healing stories represent some of the most moving images in Scripture. They are the most important miracle stories that were used to convince the world that Jesus was the Son of God during the first five centuries of the Common Era....

Sermon | By Wayne B. Arnason | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Body, Healing, Health, Humanism, Illness

Spirit of Life, How easy it is to speak your name and offer this prayer at this season of re-birth and renewal!! The spirit of life is everywhere, evident in each new bud and shoot. We pray that our lives may be blessed with that same renewal we see all around us in nature's annual celebration....

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

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

How can we pray with integrity, grace, power, and purpose?

By Wayne B. Arnason, Kathleen Rolenz | February 24, 2008 | From Spirit
Tagged as: Spiritual Practice, Personal Inspiration

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