The Rev. Cecilia Kingman has been studying authoritarian systems for most of her life and is currently doing doctoral work at the Pacific School of Religion on the responses of faith communities to fascist and totalitarian regimes. After the collapse of the communist dictatorship in Romania, she spent two decades working with the Unitarians of Transylvania to strengthen civil society and support sustainable agricultural and community development.

Cecilia is a 2003 graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry and has served congregations in Oregon and Washington, most recently serving as the Minister for Faith and Justice at the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Edmonds, Washington, until last year. Cecilia lives in the greater Seattle, where she is active in interfaith organizing.

She is the mother of four children, two of whom are still in school. Cecilia nourishes her spirit by caring for a number of animals and a very large vegetable garden.

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Rev. Cecilia Kingman, the author of the 2023 Berry Street Address, titled “My Little Pony Was Right: Reflections on Fascisms Without and Within,” will speak to UUSJ. Rev. Kingman will share her thoughts on how to recognize the less well-known characteristics of rising fascism, as well as her conviction that our faith as Unitarian Universalists compels us to resist it in all its forms.

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