Rev. Bruce Marshall

BIOGRAPHY & SERMONS
The Rev. Dr. Bruce Marshall joined us as our interim minister in September 2009. He will be leaving us at the end of August 2012 as our new minister comes in. He has served us well and we will miss him, though new things will be coming for all.

The Rev. Dr. Marshall has 25+ years of experience as a minister, having served Unitarian Universalist congregations in Flint, MI; Huntington, NY; and Shaker Heights, OH. He is a third generation Unitarian Universalist and has published four books, including three on religious liberalism. He holds degrees from Earlham College, Meadville/Lombard Theological School, and Chicago Theological Seminary. He has pursued additional studies at Manchester College, the Unitarian College at Oxford University, and he holds a certificate in spiritual direction from the Shalem Institute in Bethesda. He has a particular interest in spiritual direction, that is, the process of attending to and deepening one's personal spiritual journey.

Rev. Marshall was called by the Unitarian Universalist Association to provide pastoral care to the congregation and support to the staff of the two congregations involved in the shootings last July at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville.

Rev. Marshall is married to Amy, pictured above, with four grown children. Contact Rev. Marshall at bmarshall[at]dmuuc.org.
 

Sermons By Rev. Marshall (audio sermons here)

04/22/12 - Immigration as a Moral Issue

04/15/12 - Forgiveness

04/01/12 - Report from the UUA General Assembly Rev. Marshall with Liz Echols, Joyce
Dowling and Mike Papantones

04/08/12 - Jesus for Non-Believers

03/25/12 - The Reason for a Flower

03/04/12 - A Little Sermon About Cosmology

02/26/12 - Canvass Sunday: A Mission for the Future

02/12/12 - Unitarian Universalist Polity Series: Social Justice

02/05/12 - Living with Loss

01/22/12 - Forrest Church: Life from the Prospective of Death

01/15/12 - Reflections on Race Relations - Martin Luther King Day service with Joyce Dowling, Elliot Grollman, Christopher Bell, Jr., and Louise Warner

01/08/2012 A Pretty Scary Time Coming

12/18/2011 Making Room For Love

12/11/2011 What are we Celebrating?

11/13/2011 Friendship as Spiritual Discipline

11/06/2011 Worship in the Unitarian Universalist Tradition

10/23/2011 Ric Masten: Our Troubadour Minister

10/16/2011 The Nature of Covenant

10/09/2011 Ministry in the Unitarian Universalist Tradition

09/28/2011 So Where Are Vera, Chuck and Dave? Reflections on Turning 64

09/18/2011 Congregational Polity: What Does It Mean? What Does It Matter

09/11/2011 The Water of Life: Reflections on 9/11

06/19/2011 The Happiest Story You'll Ever Hear

06/12/2011 Milestones

05/29/2011 What's To Become of Men?

05/15/2011 Is Gandhi in Hell?

05/01/2011 A Theology of Gardening

04/24/2011 That We Not Forget

04/10/2011 So What Comes Next?

03/27/2011 Everyday Spirituality

03/13/2011 Jewish Roots of Unitarian Universalism

03/06/2011 Canvass Sunday: Infrastructure

02/27/2011 Unitarian Universalist Paganism and Mysticism

02/06/2011 Unitarian Universalist Theism

01/30/2011 Unitarian Universalist Christianity

01/16/2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday: In Between

01/09/2011 So You Want To Be Happy?

01/02/2011 What Are You Looking For?

12/12/2010 When I Fall

12/05/2010 Truth-telling and its Limits

11/21/2010 Giving Thanks (When Maybe You Don't  Feel Like It)

11/07/2010 Successful Aging

10/24/2010 - Seven Useful Spiritual Practices

10/17/2010 - What Does It Mean to be a Hate-Free-Zone?

10/03/2010 - Fifty Years of the UUA: What's Changed? What's Ahead?

09/26/2010 - Your Strengths Are Your Weaknesses; Your Weaknesses Are Your Strengths

09/19/2010 - Empathy and Global Consciousness

09/12/2010 - The Fall Overturn

08/29/2010 - God, Love and the Interstate Highway System

06/20/2010 - Advice From A Dad

06/13/2010 - Unitarian Universalist Family Rituals

06/06/2010 - Religious Liberalism Series: Who Are We?

05/30/2010 - Happy Birthday, Margaret Fuller

05/16/2010 - Facing Change

05/06/2010 - Listen To Your Mother

04/11/2010 - Who Was A. Powell Davies, and Why Does He Matter?

04/04/2010 - Easter: A Time of Rebirth and Hope

03/07/2010 - Religious Liberalism Series: How Do We Account For Evil?

02/28/2010 - Canvass Sunday: What If We Weren't Here?

02/21/2010 - Lessons From Knoxville

01/24/2010 - The Life That Makes All Things New

01/10/2010 - Radical Hospitality: An Ethic of Welcoming

01/03/2010 - Religious Liberalism Series: What Brings Us Hope?

12/13/2009 - It Shouldn't Have Flown

12/06/2009 - Religious Liberalism Series: What Do I Believe About God?

11/22/2009 - Gratitude

11/15/2009 - What is Your Ministry?

11/08/2009 - What's in a Name?

11/01/2009 - Religious Questions Series: What Do I Trust?

10/18/2009 - Seven Beverages

10/04/2009 - Religious Questions Series: Who Am I?

09/27/2009 - Starting Over

09/20/2009 - Finding God in a Crossword Puzzle

09/13/2009 - Coming Home