Rev. Marti Keller has served as a Unitarian Universalist minister for more than 25 years, most recently as minister for the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. She has been both a parish and community minister, serving congregations in the South since 1998. She has been a guest speaker in many pulpits, including Dublin, Ireland, Edinburgh Scotland, and San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.
Rev. Keller is spending more time researching, reflecting on and writing essays and immersion journalism, having spent the first 20 years of her professional life as a reporter and editor (graduate in journalism from University of California at Berkeley.)
She is also a published poet with Red Wool Socks and Dark Chocolate: A Life in Three Lines (Matrika Press, 2020), Thinking in Haiku (CreateSpace, 2017), Prickly Pear (Farm House Press, 2009), and South/West (Shakespeare’s Sisters Press, 2013). She is the co-editor, with Leah Hart-Landsberg, of Jewish Voices in Unitarian Universalism (Skinner House, 2014). She is also an author and editor of Faith of UU Jews, part of the welcoming pamphlet library of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Rev. Marti Keller is available to perform weddings. For those who are interested in the kind of services that reflect their own spirituality and religious beliefs, who want to avoid patriarchal and sexist words and symbols, who want to celebrate rather than solemnize their commitment, Unitarian Universalist services are ideal.
Rev. Keller is available for both live pulpit appearances and virtual, depending on the current community level of COVID infection.
Poetry Chapbook Available Now
Red Wool Socks and Dark Chocolate: A Life in Three Lines, in its attention to the objects and experiences in one’s everyday life, affirms the sentiment that haiku and haiku-like short verses can find their inspiration beyond the realms of nature and seasonal themes. Informed by marvelous examples given at the North America haiku conference, this chapbook features culturally appropriate observations and reflections. This expansive approach to these brief, immediate verses offers a satisfying interlude between the ordinary and the sacred.
Featured Sermon
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Freedom Summers
Sometimes you just have to march. The tramp, tramp, tramping of marching feet sends a vibration across the body politic and people have to listen, civil rights leader and black clergy member Rev. Joseph Lowery tells us. This man should know. He has been marching since he was a young man to advance racial equality,…
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Rev. Keller is available both for live and remote sermons/services.
Latest Poems
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November Haiku 2
Slowly around the lake
in search of
thumping acorns
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November Haiku 1
The day before the day before November
a singular joy
a singular red maple leaf
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purple
a dark purple
bounty of fallen
mulberries
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Featured Poem
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purple
a dark purple
bounty of fallen
mulberries