Imagine yourself back in the 1850s when Boston Unitarians sent a Missionary to build a church in Lawrence, to spread the Unitarian gospel in the Kansas Territory, and to promote the Abolition of Slavery. You would have known of the Rev. Ephraim Nute, a key figure in the era of Bleeding Kansas, but largely unknown today. His story, and its parallels to our perilous times.

The Rev. Diane Miller served congregations, directed the Department of Ministry at the UUA, and held numerous leadership roles over forty years in ministry. She is Minister emerita of the First Church in Belmont, Massachusetts. Diane retired to Salina, Kansas, to enjoy her two grandchildren growing up. How do we invite people to be themselves and forgo demanding that they be someone else?