Unitarians and Pagans, with Louise Bunn and the Earth Spirit Group

Louise Bunn

October 25:   Unitarians and Pagans, with Louise Bunn and the Earth Spirit Group
                         Service Leader: Ann Bryce

Pagans hold a reverence for the Earth and all its creatures, generally see all life as interconnected, and tend to strive to attune one’s self to the manifestation of this belief as seen in the cycles of nature.  The Wheel of the Year is a central concept, which can be seen as a metaphor for the cycle of a single life, from birth to death and also serves to remind us of our connection to the rest of the natural world.  Today we will be turning the Wheel toward Samhain, and talking about the connection between contemporary Paganism and UUism, and how they inform, nourish, and enrich each other.

Louise has a particular interest in nature religions, wrote the Unitarian Universalist adult religious education curriculum “Paganism 101”, which is used across the denomination, and recently completed her master’s degree in “Myth, Cosmology, and the Sacred” at the University of Canterbury in the UK. She has been an active member of the Unitarian Church of Vancouver since 1996. She has been a lay chaplain, on a ministerial search committee and an active member of the worship committee, among other involvements.

She also works as a sculptor and painter with a busy studio on Granville Island. In her artwork, she is inspired by the processes of change and transformation, and is interested in how we, as human beings, embed ourselves in the world, and find meaning during our time here.