When you find yourself at a threshold moment, between what was and what is next, it is tempting to wait for better times. This Sunday, we will explore what it means to live in the middle of uncertainty and how to find beauty in a spot of danger. 

Rev. Dr. Nicole C. Kirk (she/her) is the Rev. Dr. J. Frank and Alice Schulman Chair of Unitarian Universalist History at Meadville Lombard Theological School and a historian of American religious history. She has served UU congregations in Ohio and New Jersey and is currently the Program Minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She joined the Meadville Lombard faculty in 2012 after serving eight years in the parish and earning her Ph.D. at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her research interests include religion, business, mobility, and material culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Kirk is the author of Wanamaker’s Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store. Her next book explores religion and the American railroad circus.