Reading as Opportunity and Resistance: Libros Para Todos

By Ann Kuffner 

In a culture where reading itself has become the subject of bans and political posturing, simply picking up a book can be a powerful act of resistance. Sometimes such resistance provides a means to create new opportunities. The gift of reading provides a powerful means to forge expanded possibilities…

On April 23^rd guest minister, Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano, will speak about one of his favorite things to do—to read. He was inspired by the work of one of the Fellowship’s supported San Miguel NGOs, Libros Para Todos. This NGO changes the lives of under-served children in this region by providing books and developing children’s reading skills. He took that information back to his Monmouth, New Jersey, congregation, where they immediately began raising money for books in San Miguel de Allende. His congregation’s children even made bookmarks to gift to each child with their new book.

Rev. Craig has long embraced the communicative power of the human voice. He spent his multilingual childhood in Perú and Argentina. He later sang with The Whiffenpoofs, on concert stages, and performed hundreds of times on Broadway in Les Misérables. 

Rev. Craig is now the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Lincroft, New Jersey. A graduate of Yale College and Columbia University, he achieved a Ph.D. in Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. His dissertation, Gender Creative Promise: Affirmative Pastoral Ministry beyond Gender Binaries, will soon be published by Lexington Books. He was ordained to ministry in the Church Universal in 2018, by the UU Congregation of Princeton, NJ. 

Unitarian Universalism is a liberal faith inviting its community to gather around a set of harmonizing values and principles for living. Our UU Fellowship welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Belief in a divinity is not the central issue around which we gather for worship and generous action. Rather, we come together with a belief in community, love, compassion, social justice, reverence for nature, and the spirituality of music, all within the interconnected web of existence.

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