"Love: Feeling or Action?” - Rev. Monica Dobbins, Assistant Minister First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City
Love is one of the load-bearing pillars of our faith and lives at the center of the seven values articulated in the revised Article II proposal. Rev. Dobbins will share some of her congregation's reactions to the proposal and explore what bell hooks called our "search for clarity around the nature of love." Is love a feeling or an action? If we are to learn to love in action, what are the skills of love? How can we know when we are acting from a place of genuine love ... or even what that is?
Rev. Monica Dobbins is in her 3rd year of professional ministry, serving as the Assistant Minister at First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City where she focuses on preaching, religious education for adults, serving as a resource for older youth, and pastoral care. The social justice issues closest to her heart are health care reform and immigration justice.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Monica lives in downtown Salt Lake with her spouse and daughter; enjoys hiking and knitting; and misses sweet tea desperately.