UUG Sunday w/ Rev. Dr. Teresa Smallwood: What Happens When All Are Welcome?

Join us next Sunday, July 20th, 2025, at 10:30 AM when the Rev. Dr. Teresa
Smallwood will lead a service titled “What Happens When All Are Welcome?" Our world is filled with division and divisiveness. What would happen if we took on a more welcoming disposition as a nation? Is it inconceivable that hospitality, genuine hospitality could help us overcome the fissures so evident in our complex human condition? Dr. Smallwood is reminded of the story told in Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do. If you want to meet friend, show yourself friendly.


Dr. Teresa L. Smallwood earned a B.A from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She received a Juris Doctor from North Carolina Central University School of Law, a Master of Divinity at Howard University School of Divinity, and a PhD at Chicago Theological Seminary. She is the past Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Director of the Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative at Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is Vice-President and Dean for Academic Affairs, and she holds the James Franklin Kelly and Hope Eyster Kelly chair as Associate Professor of Public Theology at United Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg, PA. She is a Board of Directors member of the Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center. She serves on the ministerial staff of St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church in Nashville, TN. Her 2025 manuscript is Public Theology and Violent Rhetoric Examined in a Queer Womanist Critical Ethnography published by T&T Clark.


Our Sunday service is dual platform. We meet physically in the sanctuary as well as on Zoom. There are masks available for use near the greeter’s stand if you wish to use one. If you are feeling unwell or are medically vulnerable, please enjoy our service via the Zoom by e-mailing us for the link uugertysburg at gmail dot com

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