Liz is now on tour! If you’re in the neighbourhood (or in some cases online), you’ll find her at these locations:

• October 8: Capital Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Victoria, BC

• October 15: Saltwater Unitarian Universalist Church, Des Moines, WA

• October 22: South Fraser Unitarian Congregation, Surrey, BC

• October 29: Westwood Unitarian Congregation, Edmonton, AB

• November 19: Unitarian Universalist Church of Fargo-Moorhead, ND

• December 3: Unitarian Society of Hartford, CT

• December 6: The Sanctuary Boston, Cambridge, MA

• December 9: Grand River Unitarian Congregation, Kitchener-Waterloo, ON

• December 17: First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto, ON

• December 28 through January 1: Liz will be with Rev. Anne Barker at Winter Eliot, Seabeck, WA

• January 14: Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Toronto, ON

• January 21: First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa, ON

• January 28: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Durham, Port Perry, ON

• February 4: Unitarian Universalist Church of Olinda, Ruthven, ON

• February 11: Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

• February 25: Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL 

• March 3: First Unitarian Universalist Church of West Volusia, Deland, FL

• March 17 (final stop): Universalist Unitarian Church of Joliet, Joliet, IL

Those who are bringing Liz in for worship may add on a workshop to make a fun weekend of it.

We’re now accepting requests for our next Preaching Tour.

Please complete the form below. Liz’s route will be mapped out depending on where she’s asked to go, and what makes a good drive. We learned in ‘23-’24 that we’re unable to get to every church that asks.

Worship Options

Worship, Sunday Services, or whatever your congregation calls it - worship with Liz is funny and meaningful.

Inherent Mirth and Dignity

What do you do when the life you’d imagined for yourself is stuck in committee? Join us for the story of the UU Hysterical Society—a 190,000-person group on Facebook. It’s a story of feeling lost, finding yourself, and a practical joke gone right.

My Muzungu Eyes Are Improving

With humility and humour, Liz James recounts her experience as part of a well-building project to benefit a Maasai village, and how her “Muzungu" (white people) eyes are opened by the wisdom of the people she has ostensibly come to Africa to “help.”

Workshop Options

Liz has been leading workshops for fifteen years on topics like church growth, systems theory, and personal ministry. Now, with all that good grown-up stuff under her belt, she’s expanding to topics that are a bit more… fun.

Book Liz for a Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon, in conjunction with a Sunday Service! Workshops are three hours in length because longer than that makes people’s cheeks sore.

Social Media as a Spiritual Practice

Learn how to use your social media platform(s) with intention, creating community and modeling Unitarian Universalism as you go…. While having fun! Feel good about time online!

The Church of our Imagination

Get your congregation thinking outside the box about how to “do” Unitarian Universalism. This workshop centres around a really fun game and would be great for congregations who need some help getting unstuck. 

Humour for Fun and Prophet

Laughter is a powerful tool. Using humour in sermons, social actions and such brings people in, creates shared moments, and makes your message memorable!

Cost

Liz is passionate about preaching and about helping to develop Unitarian Universalist ministries of all shapes and sizes. She lives by an ethic of “enough” and offers her services (preaching, workshop leading, coffee house MCing) free, as a spiritual practice.

As a not-for-profit organization, we are grateful for donations to Mirth and Dignity, as they help us continue our work.

Please complete the form below to begin a conversation…