Our Ministers

Our Co-Ministers

Barbara and Bill Hamilton-Holway were called by our congregation as our co-ministers in 1996. Before coming to our congregation, they served as co-ministers in Salt Lake City, Utah. During this time, they helped expand Unitarian Universalism by serving as Organizing Ministers for congregations forming in Ogden and Park City.

Barbara is a graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry. Before ministry, she did graduate work in literature and for a decade she was a high school English teacher. Barbara also was a teacher as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Fiji Islands. She is grateful for her years parenting her now grown children Sarah and Ben. Walking, blue skies, sunshine, poetry, friends and family refresh her spirits. Barbara wants her ministry to encourage people to be true to themselves, to be who they can be, and to increase the odds on justice and love.

Bill graduated from Meadville/Lombard Theological School and the University of Chicago Divinity School. After graduation, he served as minister of congregations in Texas and worked for the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston as Director of the Extension Department. During college a significant decision for Bill was registering as a Conscientious Objector. Bill's family roots in Unitarian Universalism go back many generations. His grandparents were founders of All Souls Unitarian Church is Tulsa and his parents are founders of Hope Unitarian Church in Tulsa. Unitarian Universalism is in his blood. Family, genealogical research, reading, writing, travel, and hiking are among his great loves.

Barbara and Bill like collaboration and team ministry and are grateful to work with the excellent staff and the good congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley.

Our Family Minister

moses-lagosamy Amy Moses-Lagos is a graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry and a life-long Unitarian Universalist. She recently served as the Intern Minister at the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church in Walnut Creek, California, where she was very involved in multi-generational ministry and justice work. Prior to attending seminary she worked as a paralegal in immigration law for five years, first in South Texas and then in San Francisco. Amy is passionate about exploring the intersections of spirituality and social justice with people of all ages. She loves traveling, hiking with her dog in the Bay Area, and knitting.

Community Ministers

communitymins3 All of UUCB’s community ministers are ordained Unitarian Universalist ministers; they attended seminary, received fellowship from the Ministerial Fellowship Committee of the UUA, and were ordained by a UU congregation. When a minister’s work is based primarily in the community, the UUA requires that minister to affiliate with a UU congregation. This helps to ensure that all UU ministers are actively involved and connected with our larger movement. With a vote of affiliation, the congregation and the minister are committing to an ongoing relationship, and the congregation is affirming the minister’s work out in the community.

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Intern Minister, 2012-13

Intern Minister, 2012-13

I am delighted to have the opportunity to serve and learn as an Intern Minister with you at UUCB this year. I’ve lived in Berkeley almost all my life, and was raised Unitarian Universalist at the Oakland church. Over the past several years I have been playing, teaching, and learning with children and youth of all ages in almost any setting you can imagine—camps, schools, churches, museums, you name it—so I’m looking forward to bringing this enthusiasm and experience to the youth and family ministries of UUCB. Here’s to sharing a growthful, playful, and spiritually rich year!

~ Marcus Liefert
Rev. Cathleen Cox

Rev. Cathleen Cox

Rev. Cathleen Cox is a Unitarian Universalist spiritual director serving individuals, life partners and communities, both UU and interfaith, by offering guidance and tools for creating balanced, meaningful and relationally centered lives in this world and this age.

Her approach to spiritual development is eclectic, drawing on classical Unitarian and Universalist theology, current psychological and ethical paradigms of human development, as well as cross cultural wisdom traditions and world religions.

She holds the degrees of Master of Divinity (Starr King School for the Ministry) and Master of the Art of Teaching (U.C. Berkeley) as well as two California teaching credentials. She co-teaches Community Building at Pacific Central District’s annual Leadership School and has an extensive background in speaking, teaching, writing and workshop facilitation. She is certified as a dreamworker by the Institute of Advanced Archetypal Studies and is a 2002 recipient of the Margaret Fuller Award of the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation for her work on the archetypes of feminism.

You can find out more about Rev. Cat's ministry at her website.
Rev. Jane Ramsey

Rev. Jane Ramsey

Rev. Jane Ramsey is a graduate of Pacific School of Religion and an ordained UU minister. She is currently working as a Spiritual Care Provider (chaplain) for Napa valley Hospice and Adult Day Center. She is certified in Grief and Loss (through the University of California Berkeley Extension Program) and volunteers for Circle of Care as a facilitator of a support group for families with children who have suffered a loss. Jane is working toward Certification in Thanatology (the study of death) through the Association of Death Educators and Counseling. Jane facilitates grief support groups, aging groups and leads workshops in death related issues. Learn more about Jane's ministry on her web page.
Rev. Lisa Sargent

Rev. Lisa Sargent

Rev. Lisa Sargent works as Chaplain at the Kaiser Antioch Medical Center, providing pastoral care to patients, their families, and staff. She received her Master of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry and completed her chaplaincy residency at John Muir Health, Concord. Her love of chaplaincy is rooted in her beliefs that we can support one another through times of struggle and we can experience God in one another. Lisa is also a member of the UUCB Chaplains.
Rev. Sonya Sukalski

Rev. Sonya Sukalski

Rev. Sonya Sukalski brings a passion for work with young adults (ages 18-35) to her current position as Consulting Minister for the Young Leaders' Project for the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of California. She found Unitarian Universalism as a young adult, and is working to develop programming that will help the young adults in our congregations round out their leadership skills for making our world a more just and beautiful place that is grounded in their UU beliefs.
Rev. Theresa Hardy

Rev. Theresa Hardy

Rev. Theresa Hardy works as a Chaplain with VITAS Innovative Hospice Care in Fairfield, providing spiritual care to patients and families in home and facility settings. She received her Master of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry and has been working as a Chaplain for several years in different settings. She is a member of the UUCB Chaplains and active in the Coming of Age and Our Whole Lives youth programs.