THE REV. DR. LINDA OLSON PEEBLES
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MINISTRY TO BE OF SERVICE
I seek a chance to use my experience and talents with a group of people who offer me new vistas and questions. Â An interim or consulting position would be a good match for me, as I love the process of learning what a community needs and envisions, and then supporting them in finding their gifts to make these dreams come true. Â My work as a community organizer has convinced me of the power of building relationships, and empowering people to create the change they seek.
EDUCATION
1973 – Bachelor of Arts, College of Wooster
1997 – Master of Divinity, Meadville Lombard Theological School
2011 – Doctor of Divinity, Meadville Lombard Theological School
CREDENTIALS
1978 – Instructor and Counselor certificate, Childbirth Education Association
1989 – American Camping Association accreditation for summer camp directors
1995 – Renaissance Graduate and Instructor (UUA and LREDA)
1997 – UUA Fellowship for Ministry
2005 – Industrial Areas Foundation organizing training
2012 – UUMA Coaching certificate
2017 – UUA Credentialed Interim Minister
VOLUNTEER SERVICE
1977 – 1980 Nursing Mothers lactation consultant, Philadelphia
1979 – 1980 Trinity Preschool Board of Directors, Philadelphia
1982 – 1984 President, Ft. Hunt Cooperative Preschool, Mt. Vernon VA
1989 – 1994 President, Mt. Vernon Community Children’s Theatre
1995 – 1997 President, Greater Washington Association Religious Education Council
1997 – 2001 President, United Community Ministries, Alexandria BA
1998 – 2012 LREDA leader (serving on many committees and task forces nationally)
1996 – 2015 Teacher (UUA Leadership Schools, Wesley Theological School, DC, Meadville Lombard)
1999 – 2007 member of UUA Board of Trustees (and Joseph Priestley Board)
1999 – 2003 member, UUA Journey Towards Wholeness Committee
2003 – 2007 member, UUA Ministerial Fellowship Committee
2005 – 2016 Clergy Leader and Executive Committee, VOICE
(Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement)
2012 – 2016 President, Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
2017 – current member of Goodwin House Clinical Pastoral Education, Professional Advisory Group
2019 – current Vocational Advisor, Ministerial Formation Network
2019 – current Teaching Mentor, Meadville Lombard Theological School
2020 – current President, Chesapeake UU Ministers Association (CUUMA)
EMPLOYMENT
1973 – 1981 Editor, Lutheran Church of America Publishing Board
1985 – 1991 Teacher and Director, Ft. Hunt Coop Preschool
1985 – 1987 Teacher, Burgundy Farm Country Day School Summer Day Camp
1988 – 1990 Director, Burgundy Farm Country Day School Summer Day Camp
1990 – 1997 Director of Religious Education, Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church
1997 – 2001 Minister of Religious Education , Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church
2001 – 2013 Minister of Religious Education, UU Church of Arlington
2013 – 2017 Minister of Faith in Action, UU Church of Arlington
2017 – 2019 Interim Minister, Accotink UU Church
2019 – current Interim Senior Minister, UU Congregation of Rockville
AWARDS
Religious Leadership Award, Meadville Lombard, 1997
Roberta Nelson Award for Religious Education, 1997
Diverse Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM) Award for Antiracist Advocacy, 2002
Larry Axel Teaching Excellence Award, Meadville Lombard
Angus H. MacLean Award for Excellence in Religious Education, UUA, 2013
Governor’s Volunteerism and Community Service Award for VOICE’s Outstanding Faith-Based Service, Commonwealth of Virginia, 2016
James B. Hunter Human Rights Award, Arlington County, VA, 2016
Linda Olson Peebles Peoples Award, V.O.I.C.E 2017
UUSJ Award for Outstanding Clergy 2017
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Paradise is Here, an essay included in The Whole World Kin: Darwin and the Spirit of Liberal Religion, Fredric Muir, editor, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, 2010.
Growing Up is the Hardest Thing We Do, an essay include in Coming of Age: A Treasury of poems, quotations and readings on growing up, Edward Searl, editor, Skinner House Books, 2006.
Anna Garlin Spencer : the three-fold path of life, Occasional paper (Unitarian Universalist Women's Heritage Society), #9. Malden, MA : Unitarian Universalist Women's Heritage Society, 1995.
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Turning, a CD of original music, 2001.
