Who we are
We are clergy and community advocates from throughout the United States working together toward encouraging critically important conversations about psychedelics and entheogens in the United Church of Christ.
Some of our conversation partners…
We are a diverse collection of voices from inside and outside the United Church of Christ - clergy and church leaders, practitioners and seekers.
These are a few of the conversation participants.
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Northern California Nevada Conference UCC
"I'm a local church pastor and first got trained in psychedelic-assisted therapy to help people in my world who were stuck and suffering. What I've found in addition to that is a means to continue and deepen my own liberating spiritual practices and soul work."
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Northern Illinois Conference UCC
“Thanks to my psychedelic experiences 55 years ago, I now take religion seriously. Religion is about something real, a real experience that people can have. Religion is not merely creed or belief systems, not only a church with its clergy, rituals, history, and holy texts, not even social concerns and the human good. Not about an afterlife. These are all important but are the fruits from the tree of mystical experience. Thus, my personal life and my professional work have largely been trying to understand these experiences and encouraging others to examine them too.”
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Southern New England Conference UCC
“As a local pastor, ministry for me is about cultivating human healing and wholeness as stewards of this planet and one another. Though work with plant medicines is not for everyone, its transformational power can be profound. The church has an exciting opportunity here to support an emerging table at which more and more of us are experiencing God Still Speaking in life- and potentially world-changing ways.
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Michigan Conference, UCC
“As a local church pastor - I’ve seen psychedelic medicines save lives.
As a spiritual seeker, a practitioner, and a follower of Jesus - incorporating entheogens into my prayer life has changed my universe.”
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Illinois Conference, UCC
“People deserve the right to pursue their mental and spiritual health and happiness without government interference or the threat of being thrown in prison.”
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Central Pacific Conference, UCC
Access to these medicines has been denied for far too long out of fear and misinformation. Becoming a licensed facilitator in Oregon supports my call and smoothes a pathway to access for those whose faith matters deeply while they heal. Mycelial ministry to me is the work of our interwovenness, nudging us to participate in the work of Christ's liberatory vision both individually and collectively.