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Rev. Mary Barrett Speers
Mary Speers has served Union Church since October 2001. She has provided pastoral leadership to churches in Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C.; and has served on the faculty of the Jewish Guild for the Blind (N.Y.), the Corcoran School of Art (D.C.), the Craft Students' League (N.Y.), and BRUCA/the Bay Ridge-Union Center for the Arts www.bruca.org. She received the A.B. with Honors in Fine Art from the University of Chicago in 1973, continued in graduate work in clay and glass at the University of Minnesota from 1974-76, received the M.Div. from the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York in 1989, and was ordained by the Presbytery of New York City in 1990. Before ordination, Rev. Speers worked in the visual and performing arts in Chicago, Minneapolis, and New York, and continues this involvement today in the parish and in retreat and workshop settings. click here to read some of Rev. Speers's sermons click here to read Rev. Speers's Statement of Faith click here to read Rev. Speers's essay Art and Spirit at Union Church Rev. Speers is also a professional narrative and commercial voice actor. To listen to her demo, click here: http://maryspeers.icanvoice.com
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