Rev. Dr. Wayne Arnason, Meadville Lombard Theological School, USA

Rev. Kathleen Rolenz, Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis, USA

Rev. Dr. Diana K. Davies

Is the Lead Minister for the First Unitarian Church of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Rev. Davies is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago, Illinois. Before being called to Oklahoma, she served as a consulting minister for the Unitarian Universalists of Charlestown (in Catonsville, Maryland) and completed her intern ministry at the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore (Maryland). She received her Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard in 2017, and was awarded prizes in historical studies, academic excellence, community engagement, and the philosophy of religion. Rev. Davies also holds a PhD in Comparative Literature.

Prior to her ministry, she worked as an instructor of Russian and Comparative Literature and was a recognized leader in the field of international education. Her most recent position in higher education was as the Vice Provost for International Initiatives at Princeton University, where she led campus internationalization, managed all international partnerships, and oversaw research centres in China and Kenya. Last year, she served as a consultant to Meadville Lombard, co-organizing and facilitating a study of the school's international vision and its partnerships with Unitarian, Universalist, and UU communities in other countries.

 

Rev. John Harley

Rev. Kathleen has been serving as a spiritual director, in addition to her parish ministry. Rev. Wayne's long career in denominational leadership has included serving as President of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association.

Rev. Sarah Tinker

Sarah ministers with Kensington Unitarians in London since 2005 and is very involved with both ministry and lay training in the UK. Coming from a teaching background she has started her work for the Unitarians nationally as Religious Education & Youth Officer. Then she graduated at the Unitarian College in Machester and became a minister. She currently serves as chair of the Interview Panel for ministry training and is keen to know more about our Czech Academy, as it becomes ever more important to establish flexible training structures.

She helped create new materials for the British Unitarians’ Worship Studies Course and is looking forward to meeting Czech Unitarians and bringing some of these materials to our training.