Speaker: Guest Minister - Rev. Barbara Cornell

From 1993 to 2007 Rev. Cornell was Director of Religious Education at Shoreline UU Church where she made sure to offer both, About Your Sexuality and then Our Whole Lives to her community. Her ministry for the past 14 years is hospital chaplaincy at Providence Swedish Edmonds hospital, where she also coordinates the bereavement program. She is happily married to Dane Scott, a trained AYS facilitator, and they have two adult children who, naturally, are both graduates of Our Whole Lives.

UUs and Sex Education

In the early 60’s Directors of Religious Education were responding to parent and youth requests for help navigating the changing world of sexuality, when they joined forces with the UUA to create a new sexuality curriculum for middle schoolers, called About Your Sexuality (AYS). Today, we have the lifespan sexuality curriculum, Our Whole Lives (OWL), … Continue reading UUs and Sex Education