Better known as “Pastor Kris”, Kris Cervantes has served as UUWaco’s minister since September 2014. She is a lifelong UU and native Texan. She also serves the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Waco, Texas. She received her MDiv (with honors) and a certificate in Sexual and Gender Justice Studies from Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth. She serves on the board of the Greater Waco Interfaith Conference and the Clergy Advisory Board for Planned Parenthood of Central Texas. Kris lives in a little brick house with her husband Robert, son Gabriel (17), and a variety of four-legged family members, as well as lots of books (and dog hair)! Her older son Jack (19) studies print-making and fine arts at UNT. In her spare time, Kris reads (everything), paints, sings, talks to her garden, and drinks far too much coffee with friends.
DON’T FORGET DAY LIGHT SAVINGS TIME-SET YOUR CLOCKS BACK! Join us for a time of remembrance, as we mourn and celebrate the lives we’ve lost in the past year (and more). It can be tempting to look away from our own grief in the face of such a grievously hurting world. But now more than … Continue reading In Memoriam
Join Pastor Kris Cervantes in an exploration of the terrain where safety & security meet courage & accountability. What does it mean to create space–within ourselves, for ourselves, for others, in witness? How do we make space for a body-loving, incarnate, bleeding, breathing theology-in-practice? Ethics enacted–listening, and hearing. Click on this link to view a … Continue reading Safe Space / Brave Space: Listening Across the Lines
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The status of women’s rights in America is in peril. As our nation and particularly our state seek to criminalize trans* children and women for exercising bodily autonomy, Pastor Kris Cervantes takes a tough look at the ways women’s voices have been shut down and cut off by sexual violence and threat, in ancient times … Continue reading Listening to Women, Ancient and Modern
This Sunday, we’ll explore ideas of personal and communal accountability. Is self-forgiveness possible–or appropriate?–in the face of our current collective come-uppance? Or perhaps it’s all right to make space for self-forgiveness, while still making concrete amends for our many sins: against the environment, the marginalized, the vulnerable, and those we have wounded in our own … Continue reading Keeping the Faith: Self-forgiveness and Accountability
I chose the series title “Keeping the Faith” because the liturgical calendar we follow names September’s theme to be “Renewal.” As Unitarian Universalists, covenants of right action and relationship lie at the heart of our faith in its deepest roots, from its ancient history to the unfolding present and future. To renew covenant is to … Continue reading Keeping the Faith: Renewing Our Deep Covenants
