Unitarian Universalist Ministry

About Me:

Monica Clark-Robinson is a minister and seminarian in her final semester at Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary, where she received the UUA Presidential Scholarship. She was welcomed into preliminary fellowship with the UUA this past December. Monica is the intern minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, MO, and was previously the Intern Minister at the Church of the River in Memphis. Before seminary, Monica received an MFA in Acting from Michigan State University and an MFA in Writing from Hamline University. She’s the author of several children’s books, including “Let the Children March,” illustrated by Frank Morrison, “Standing On Her Shoulders,” illustrated by Laura Freeman, and the forthcoming “Teaching for Change: Septima Clark’s Legacy of Literacy and Liberation,” co-written with Yvonne Clark-Rhines, Septima Clark’s granddaughter. Monica’s books have won multiple awards, including an International Literacy Association Debut award and a Coretta Scott King Honor award for illustration. As an activist, she has partnered with LGBTQ organizations, interfaith peace and justice groups, and two different prison justice organizations, teaching and mentoring incarcerated writers. Monica has also spent time as an actor, theatre professor, audio narrator, and vegan cook. For fun and leisure, she loves to write poetry, read, cook, watch episodes of The Walking Dead, sing, act, work on her stand-up comedy set, and go thrifting. Monica lives in a yurt in the woods of Arkansas with her wife and daughter and is currently pursuing an honorary doctorate in Kitty Snuggles.

Sample Sermons:

“Gleanings From Our Past: Returning to What Has Always Saved Us”