Feb. 4 Guest Preacher Rev. Marilyn B. Kendrix

We look forward to welcoming the Rev. Marilyn B. Kendrix, retired bridge conference minister of the Southern New England Conference UCC, as the guest preacher at our 10:30 a.m. service on Sunday, February 4.

Prior to ordination, Marilyn worked for over 15 years as an organizational development consultant principally at AT&T and also in other profit and non-profit settings. She served on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Conference and participated with the Southern New England Conference Planning Team. She also served as the last Conference Minister of the Rhode Island Conference UCC and one of the first Bridge Conference Ministers of the new Southern New England Conference of UCC.

Marilyn earned her B.A. from Spelman College, an HBCU school in Atlanta, Georgia, and an M.B.A. and an M.A. in industrial and organizational psychology, both from the University of New Haven. She also received an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Since 2012, her personal ministry has included preaching at over 100 churches to raise awareness about mass incarceration in America. In her ministry to seek criminal justice reform, Marilyn co- wrote The Justice Imperative: How Hyper-Incarceration Has Hijacked the American Dream (Significance Press, 2014). Her current social justice preaching ministry addresses systemic racism and the controversy over critical race theory. So far, she has preached at an additional 80 churches on these subjects.

Marilyn retired from the Southern New England Conference in January 2021 and is married to her best friend, Alan. Together they have three children and six grandchildren.