April 11 “Widening the Circle of Concern” The Rev. Leslie Takahashi, Guest Minister

Rev. Takahashi is the lead Minister of the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church, a position she has held since 2015. She has been active in many volunteer roles in the UUA, UUMA and at the local level, where she participates now as part of the Faith in Action East Bay justice network. Her work has been published in many anthologies and she is the primary author of The Arc of the Universe Is Long: Unitarian Universalism and the Journey Towards Wholeness and of “Widening the Circle of Concern: The report of the Commission on Institutional Change.” She is the mother of two children and two bully breed pups and loves walking, water, and gardening.