Rev. Bea Manning, Ph.D.

Associate Minister Bea combines her commitment to justice with her love of learning and her joyful self-renewing search for understandings and truths. These loves inform her strong involvement in small group ministry, book, film and topical discussions, and religious education activities with our youth. Bea is also committed to play, which she considers holy, whether it be croquet or golf or improvisations. She is a writer of poetry as well as academic articles. For Bea all spiritual searching has an action component that involves both service and understanding that can lead to the creation of societies that enhance justice and kindness. She takes these commitments beyond the borders of our church including activities such as being a trained facilitator for the UCC racial justice ministries. She is committed to our church both providing a place of solace for exploring and deepening our spirituality through reflection and study, and confronting the world with its good news as we attempt to walk as Jesus so often did with those at the margins of society.