Articles by Rev. Patty Christiena Willis
After two decades on the western coast of Japan, the Rev. Patty Christiena Willis and her partner moved to the borderlands of Arizona/Mexican border. The complications of life on the border drew Willis to study for the ministry and in 2008 sheenteredEarlham School of Religion, a Quaker seminary in Richmond, Indiana. From 2010, her theater work, Man from Magdalena, has funded over $150,000 in micro-loans to Central America and Mexico. She served a UU congregation for six years in Salt Lake City, Utah and beginning in the fall of this year, she will be serving a congregation in Prescott, Arizona.
In mid-March, as news of the pandemic began sweeping our country, our congregation closed the doors of our building and began meeting online. Each week, I recorded three short videos to encourage our relatively aged …
by Patty Christiena Willis
Many times I have heard people say, “The United States is a melting pot.” Those words have always been spoken with a positive facial expression. What do they mean? Why would I …
by Patty Christiena Willis
I remember sitting with a vegetarian friend at a Japanese restaurant. When she ate a bit of shrimp that had been fried in batter, she spit it out, right there, and said, …
In the Stillness
by Patty Christiena Willis
They say you speak in the stillness,
I have known that.
There are days when
all I hear is my heartbeat
and the rush of body fluids
the sound through stethoscopes like
the sound …
