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First, please allow me to put you at ease concerning the pronunciation of my name. Although I am officially the Reverend Doctor Claudene F Oliva, try Deane, pronounced, “Dee-knee.”

Raised in White Plains New York, I received a bachelor’s degree from Antioch College,  a master’s degree from the New School for Social Research and a Ph.D. from George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. I spent many years working as a clinical and school neuropsychologist, primarily in the Tennessee-Kentucky area.

Raised Roman Catholic, I was unchurched for many years before taking up a Buddhist spiritual practice and joining the Unitarian Universalist Church of  Bowling Green Kentucky.  In 2007, I received a Master of Divinity degree from Meadville Lombard Theological School and a Certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Institute for Spiritual Leadership in Chicago. 

As Unitarian Universalists, we have a strong faith tradition, one that sanctions our search for truth and meaning; one that encourages us to share the journey, walk the talk, and turn to each other in fellowship, commitment, service, pain and joy. We explore such questions as:

¨      Why are we here? 

¨      How do we express our values in our daily lives? 

¨      How shall we care for and minister to each other?

¨      What about worship makes it right for us? 

¨      What is our sense of beloved community? 

¨      How do we relate to the larger world? 

A minister loves the journey, takes the opportunity to share, to question and to facilitate, so that folks of many different religious paths will feel nurtured, challenged and heard.

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