Groundhog Day is coming up, and on the pagan calendar marks Imbolc or Candlemas… a time when lands lie fallow before the spring plowing. “In her book How To Do Nothing”, Jenny Odell reminds us that “Simple awareness is the seed of responsibility”. This service invites us to consider how to use this “fallow time” to prepare for something yet unknown.

 

The Reverend Dr. Susan Veronica Rak has been a Unitarian Universalist since the early 1970s and Unitarian Universalist Minister since 1996.  Although retired from full-time ministry, she recently served as Summer Minister at Community Church of  NY.  Before that, she completed two Interim Ministries and served UU congregations as settled Minister in several locations, and was Program Consultant for the Joseph Priestley District.

Over the years she’s been involved with several organizations within the UUA and she continues her volunteer work in support of Unitarian Universalism by serving on the Board of Trustees of the UU Retired Ministers and Partners Association.

Reverend Dr. Rak earned her Masters of Divinity at  Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster PA and received a Doctor of Ministry from Meadville-Lombard Theological School (2009), Chicago IL.

She and her spouse, Dr. Mary Chinery (Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Georgian Court University, Lakewood NJ) reside in Asbury Park NJ.