“Getting Over Ourselves, For Good” Rev. Ron Robinson - February 26, 2017

As we approach Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and the Season of Lent, what can they teach us about the emerging needs of Unitarian Universalism and its congregations to become what we need at this time to meet the emerging needs of the world right where we are? Rev. Robinson will talk about a changing approach to church, practiced by The Welcome Table Church in Tulsa, which landed it on the cover of the UU World magazine. What does this have to do with him as a UU, with Jesus, and with Christianity?

Rev. Ron Robinson is a minister with The Welcome Table, a missional community in far north Tulsa’s high poverty rate area where he and his wife were born and again currently reside. He is also the Executive Director of A Third Place Community Foundation, a community renewal non-profit organization his church began. Ron is also an adjunct faculty in Practical Theology at Phillips Theological Seminary and director of ministerial formation for Unitarian Universalist students at the seminary. For 13 years, he served as the Executive Director of the UU Christian Fellowship, a national organization founded in 1945. He is a Board Member of the UU Society of Community Ministries and a frequent speaker all over the country on the missional church movement. He also planted the UU Congregation of Tahlequah, OK, and served in several Southwest UU Conference leadership positions. Before entering the UU ministry, he was a journalist, fiction writer and teacher, having received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and various other awards.