About the Author

A graduate of the University of Louisville and having been a school teacher, mother of two, wife of a rising, often transferred young engineering manager and an active lay UU, Alice Blair Wesely was a special (non-credit) student at Meadville/ Lombard 1973-77 while also taking courses in preparation for ministry at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX. For twenty years Alice served congregations in TX, MD and NJ, most often as an extension or new congregation minister. She had said, “The proudest fact of my life - apart from my family - is that all eight of the congregations I served are still today larger and stronger than they were when I joined them, in no small measure because of the ministry members and I were able to do together.”

Alice also served on or chaired numerous District, summer institute and UUMA committees and boards, and many times addressed and/ or led workshops at summer institutes and the Mountain’s leadership training school. She was four years president of UU Advance and founded First Days Record, a journal for UU ministers. Her published articles have appeared in the FDR, the Register/ Leader, the World, the Journal of the Liberal Ministry, Kairos, the UU Christian and UUMA Essays. She is perhaps best know for her 1986 book, Myths of Time and History: A Unitarian Universalist Theology, used in many church study groups. Retired in 1996, Alice is currently helping to edit the new online Dictionary of UU Biography, a project of the UU Historical Society, headed up by Peter Hughes.

Her 2000-01 Minns lectures were delivered in our churches in Dedham and Brookline, MA; at Seattle University and the University Unitarian Church in Seattle, WA; and at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, OK.