The Rev. Dr. Wayne Arnason is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist with a 40 year career of service in UU congregations and institutions. Rev. Wayne served in two long-term parish ministries: from 1984-2000, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church in Charlottesville, Virginia ; from 2000-2016, with his wife the Rev. Kathleen Rolenz, at the West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church . He retired from full-time ministry in 2016, & lives in Charlottesville, VA. Rev. Wayne’s personal spiritual practice is rooted in Zen Buddhism. He has served as President of the UU Buddhist Fellowship, a continental network of UU Buddhist sitting and study groups. He also enjoys golf, films, hiking, and cooking.
Our experience of joy at connectedness, of anger at injustices, and of wonder at overwhelming beauty, can be described wordless and ineffable. Perhaps soul is the place where all these experiences meet together with our ideas and our collective unconscious in order to … read more.
