The Reverend Anne Barker - Westwood's Minister
The Rev. Anne Barker started with Westwood on August 25, 2008 and was formally installed as Westwood’s minister on October 24, 2009.
Anne is a passionate Unitarian Universalist, proud of our shared commitments to freedom, reason, tolerance and love. She is a graduate from Meadville Lombard Theological School, the Unitarian Universalist seminary in Chicago. She spent her internship in Denver, CO, before coming to Westwood.
Anne is a “Basics” Trainer for the Canadian Unitarian Council’s Lay Chaplaincy Program, with particular interests in embodied ritual and transformative rites of passage. She loves people and poetry; philosophy and finances; beauty, truth and mystery. In her best moments, she squeezes in extra time for friends and yoga, and reads just a little bit more…
Email Reverend Anne at minister@westwoodunitarian.ca.
Below are links to her monthly From the Minister’s Study” posts.
From the Minister’s Study…
April 2019: Seasons of Interdependence Well … we’ve had water in the basement – so …
From the Minister’s Study March 2019
Dear friends, I returned from January sabbatical – right into “An Army of Problem Solvers: …
From the Minister’s Study
December 2018: Seasons of Light Dearest Westwoodians, This is your seasonal reminder that “many hands …
From the Minister’s Study…
November 2018: Seasons of Peace This November, I want to tell you how moved I …
From the Minister’s Study… September 2018: Seasons of Change
Welcome back to a fresh new year at Westwood. We are super excited to see …