The Unitarian Universalist Church
  of Greater Bridgeport [image: chalice, symbol of the UU church]

*****Minister's Page*****



Our Minister
Julie-Ann Silberman-Bunn


 

Welcome from the minister

Chances are that if you are finding us here for the first time, it is because you are seeking a religious home. You may be searching because you have never had a church home; you have always wanted a church community to call home but none ever felt quite right; or you may have any of a variety of other reasons. Whatever your personal reason, we welcome you, and we hope you will come visit us in person and get to know us.

While I have grown up in this faith, I have experienced many different churches and faiths, and I like to believe our church is one in which people will find community. Come and visit, ask questions get to know us, we hope we will be the religious home you are seeking. Come learn about our historic faith and how we live our faith in the present day, Unitarian Universalism is the faith people make, so come help us make it richer.

I look forward to meeting you! Rev. Julie-Ann Silberman-Bunn

 

A Brief Biography of our Minister

The Reverend Julie-Ann Silberman-Bunn is a life-long Unitarian Universalist and a native of Trenton, New Jersey. She is a graduate of the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania., Thomas A. Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey, and the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana.

The Reverend Silberman-Bunn served the Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent, Ohio, for 12 years prior to coming to the UUCGB in the fall of 2004. Rev. Silberman-Bunn sees her call in ministry as that of helping churches become healthy and life filled. Her ministry is already showing its effects as our nursery and religious education programs are welcoming many more young children. The congregation is learning the importance of being the community it wants to be and about reaching out to all guests.

Reverend Silberman-Bunn is married to Kenneth Silberman- Bunn who is the Director of Religious Education at the Unitarian Society of Hartford. Julie-Ann and Ken live in Seymour, CT. with their two sons Adam and Ian.

 



Read a Sermon

Please note that these sermons were written to be read from the pulpit. The sermons are listed in alphabetical order, not in the order that they were given.

 

A Prophet in the Pulpit

Are you too a heretic?

At-One-Ment (Not a typo, but the meaning of "atonement" during Yom Kippur)

Be the Church

Bring a Friend

Celebrating the Beloved

Coleridge's Garden

CommUnity

Dream

Drumbeat For Justice

Extreme Make-Over Church Edition

Fear

Getting Connected

Gift of Joy

Harvesting Our Faith

HomeComing How full is full

HomeComing-Power of Place

In Peace and Unrest

ism's

Julia Ward Howe

Just Us=Justice

Kwanzaa-Self Determination

Las Dias del los Muertos

Living on the Fringe

Magha Puja

Make a Difference

Mary Magdalen

Passion and Politics-Easter

Pauline Versus Contemporary Christianity

Radical Hospitality

Right Relations

Simplify the Holidays

Sowing Seeds of Faith

Standing on the Side of Love

Summer Service-Theology of Abundance

Thaddeus Koskiewski

The Most Dangerous Church

The Sermon on the Amount

The Servant's Entrance

To be of Use

Two Christmas Reflections

 

 

Photographs from Julie-Ann' s first year in Stratford

Click to see a picture of Julie-Ann and the Search Committe who found her, September 2004.

Click to see pictures from the Installation of our minister on May 01, 2005.

 




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