About the UU of Rutland: Our Mission

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Rutland is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association of North America and is an ethical and liberal religious community dedicated to promoting the ongoing search for truth and to affirming the inherent worth of the individual.

We understand reality through human experience, enlightened reason, scientific method, and the democratic process, and we find the central source of power and goodness within the human heart, mind, and spirit. Individually and collectively, we assume responsibility for our future, our community, our children, and our interdependent world.

Our growth and actions as thoughful, compassionate, and ethical human beings advance our humanist vision of a world of peace and love, dignity and equality, freedom and justice.

Our Minister

Rev. Erica Baron is a life-long Unitarian Universalist and a native Vermonter. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School. Erica served as the Ministerial Intern at First Parish Church Unitarian Universalist of Northborough, Massachusetts from 2006 to 2008. She was ordained by that congregation in 2008.

Erica is passionate about Unitarian Universalist theology, fascinated by Unitarian Universalist history, and committed to the Unitarian Universalist Principles and to working for social justice. She is also an artist, with quilting being her current medium of choice. She resides in Rutland and also serves the congregation in Bennington, Vermont.

Erica is available for pastoral care or conversation during her office hours, 11am - 1pm on Thursdays. She is also available by appointment.