Our Team
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Susan Arnold
Director of Membership and Social Media Susan joined the Soul Matters staff in the fall of 2016 after serving as the Small Group Program Coordinator at her home congregation, The UU Fellowship of Topeka, Kansas. She writes, “Soul Matters has transformed my life, focusing my inner contemplation while deepening my connection with others. Where I once lived life visualizing myself as a tree with a deep tap root, because of Soul Matters, I now find that my roots, thoughts, and hopes are shared in an interconnected web of roots reaching all over the world." In her role on the team, Susan ensures that those roots connecting us to each other are strong and ever-expanding. Contact Susan by email at susan@soulmatterssharingcircle.com |
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Rev. Scott Tayler
Team Lead and Founder of Soul Matters ”It’s been a great gift to watch Soul Matters grow over the years. What began as a bunch of seminary and preaching buddies supporting each other has organically become a means for deep congregational interdependence. Soul Matters is so much more than a set of services; it’s a network of supportive and inspiring relationships. Ultimately, for me, Soul Matters is about healing spiritual disconnection. It mends the divides between and within congregations. It’s grace in action and the interdependent web become real. What a privilege to be a part of that!” Click here to learn more about Scott and consulting opportunities with him. Contact Scott by email at scott@soulmatterssharingcircle.com |
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Katie Covey
Director of Religious Education Resources Katie has been a religious educator since 1984. She is a curriculum author for Tapestry of Faith as well as self-published works. She is also the author of a book called "Full Circle; Growing Lifelong UU's" published by the UUA. The core values that guide her work include: partnership, story-based learning, appreciation for multiple intelligences and taking fun seriously. Click here to learn more about Katie and consulting opportunities with her. Contact Katie by email at soulmattersre@gmail.com |
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Rev. Dr. Michelle Collins
Worship & Small Group Packet Researcher Michelle is a UU minister currently serving in the Lewes and Rehoboth Beach area of Delaware. She is a graduate of Starr King School of Ministry and just received her Doctor of Ministry this spring from Wesley Theological Seminary. Having used Soul Matters resources for seven years in her own parish setting, she brings an excellent eye for what resources serve leaders best. Her love of UU theology and history is a great gift to us. We also love it that she considers research “play”! On the personal side, Michelle resides in an awesome “tiny house on wheels” in southern Delaware, is the parent of a teenage daughter and cares for two highly demanding cats. |
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Sara Jo Brandt-Doelle
Music Resources Coordinator Sara Jo Brandt-Doelle has been Music Director at First UU Society of Syracuse since 2011. She has given private flute and piano lessons for over 20 years. She has performed in various ensembles ranging from jazz to orchestra to oratorio choir. She prizes the way Soul Matters helps build deeper connections with other UU musicians as they have offer each other mutual support and encouragement. We are so grateful for the many ways she supports the network of sharing among our Soul Matters musicians. Contact Sara by email at sarajobrandt@hotmail.com. |
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Teresa Honey Youngblood
Family Ministry Coordinator Teresa is a credentialed religious educator, a hospital chaplain, and author of the book Spirited Homeschooling: Home-, Church-, and Community-based Learning in the Liberal Religious Family. She has worked as a journalist, sexuality educator, and middle school teacher. In her free time, she likes to hike in the Ozark mountains, read young adult lit, bake bread and cookies, tend a big garden, and study herbal medicine. |
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Musical Mindfulness Moments Creator
Lea Morris Lea is partnering with us this year to create music-based mindful moments for our religious education packets. She is an award-winning songwriter with experience facilitating creative and interactive intergenerational musical experiences in Centers for Spiritual Living, Unity, Unitarian Universalist, Presbyterian and Jewish places of worship. She inspires people through concerts, sing-alongs, to songwriting workshops to kid's music playshops. You can learn more about her and her work at www.thisislea.com. We especially encourage you to purchase her music for your online worship by visiting: www.hopesingseternal.me. |
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Creativity Consultant and Creativity Matters Group Leader
Elizabeth McKoy Elizabeth has been a Theatre and Visual Teaching Artist, Creativity Coach, Integrated Arts Curriculum Trainer, Professional Theatre Director and non-profit Arts leader for over 25 years. She founded and was Artistic Director of the award winning Berkeley Playhouse and prior to that, was Education Director for the Northern Bay Area Institute for Aesthetic Education. In addition to working with SOUL MATTERS she is now the Director of a non-profit online education and creativity community called SOULSTER.org. Elizabeth has been a UU for many years and is also a passionate acrylic painter who loves sketching, writing, singing, dancing, cooking, creating digital stories, directing musical theatre and hanging with her kooky family of 5 kids, socialist NYC mother, supportive husband and her 17 year + old goldendoodle dog. ) |