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Jane Flowers, Worship Associate
Music — Antonius Nazareth, Music Director

MURDER IN A CATHEDRAL our guest minister, Reverend James Ford has been thinking about that line “will no one rid me of the troublesome priest?” As inheritors of the tradition of a “priesthood of all,” what might that look like? What is a troublesome priest? And, how might we each of us become one?

Rev James Ishmael Ford has been a UU minister for well over thirty-five years, and is minister emeritus of the First Unitarian Church of Providence, Rhode Island. These days in retirement he is an associated community minister at Neighborhood UU in Pasadena. His most recent book “Zen at the End of Religion: An Introduction for the Curious, the Skeptical, and the Spiritual but Not Religious” has been shortlisted for best non-fiction religion book of 2025 from Small and University presses by the Foreward INDIE awards. The judges are 100 librarians and booksellers from around the country.