W. Frederick Wooden

W. Frederick Wooden

The Rev. Dr. W. Frederick Wooden, senior minister of the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, previously served the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn, New York, was an editor and contributor to Singing the Living Tradition, and served on the UUA Commission on Appraisal.

Learn more about W. Frederick Wooden on UUA.org.

By W. Frederick Wooden

  • Great trees of life
    W. Frederick Wooden
    People are not trees, of course, but old people have many of the traits we revere in trees.
  • Why I'm sticking with classics
    W. Frederick Wooden

    My reasons for reading Hawthorne, Melville, and Dante are hardly noble.

  • The World Trade Center site, seen from the World Financial Center on March 28, 2006.
    American myths reconsidered
    W. Frederick Wooden

    Five years after 9/11, Americans still live in the wreckage of old ideas. Religious liberals have a chance to build a new theology adequate to our complex times. Will we rise to the challenge?

  • Musicians at General Assembly400
    Unitarian Universalist music turns to exploration
    W. Frederick Wooden
    Singing the Journey represents the arrival of a new a generation of Unitarian Universalism.
  • Postcard from Brooklyn
    W. Frederick Wooden

    The minister of a Unitarian Universalist church in Brooklyn describes a day of shock and mourning.

  • There is no crisp line
    W. Frederick Wooden
    How long should someone, unable to live on her own, be kept alive?

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