Wounded Healers | Rev. Beth Dana | 10.11.2026
“Healing helps us fight in the places we need to, but love in the places we long to.” – Prentice Hemphill
In her sermon “Wounded Healers,” Rev. Beth Dana reflects on how we can begin to heal toward wholeness in a broken world. She shares the story of her first job – working with the Albany County Public Defender’s Office in their alternative sentencing program, where the work of the small but mighty county office was rooted in the belief that treatment and rehabilitation are better alternatives to punishment and imprisonment.
She also lifts up the work of attorney and advocate Brittany K. Barnett, Dr. Gail Christopher and the Kellogg Foundation, and our own Director of Equity Initiatives Jerry Hawkins and Racial Equity Task Force Leader Steve Jensen – all of whom are dedicated to the mission of truth, healing, reconciliation, and transformation. They serve as examples that the work of transforming systems and institutions starts with people-to-people relationship building.
Topics include: Brittany K. Barnett, Unitarian Universalist, Drop the Rock Rallies, Henri Nouwen, Chiron, Hercules, Somatic therapist Prentice Hemphill, Cornell University, criminal justice, Gaza
