Author: Eric Schuman

Eric Schuman first joined a UU church at the age of 15.  A self avowed fomenter of "good and necessary trouble," in 1970  he seized a Maryland pulpit with two UU friends demanding justice for UUs of color, and remains an outlier today -- an outspoken believer in freedom of conscience and freedom of the pulpit. After retirement from a 40 year medical career, he became a special student at Starr King School for the Ministry. With his two golden retrievers, he does animal assisted therapy with the criminally insane and hospice clients in Salem, Oregon, where he lives with his husband.