Speaker: Rev. Dr. Barry Andrews

Service Leader: Joan Cotta

Henry David Thoreau is known for many things. He was by turns a schoolteacher, a pencil maker, a surveyor, and a handyman. He was also an advocate of simple living, civil disobedience, and environmental preservation; in addition to being a naturalist and a writer. I believe that the thread on which all the beads of his many-faceted life are strung is his idiosyncratic and unconventional religious faith.

Barry Andrews is Minister Emeritus of the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock on Long Island and author of several books about Transcendentalism and Transcendentalist authors, most recently “The Gospel According to This Moment: The Spiritual Message of Henry David Thoreau,” published by the University of Massachusetts Press.

One can attend the service either in-person or via Zoom.