Festal means festive, celebratory, a feast.  We gather at this abundant table of Love, Interdependence,  Equity, Transformation, Pluralism, Generosity, and  Justice to explore our Western tradition of social justice and feminism. 

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The Reverend Doctor Silvia Behrend is a community minister, mentor, counselor and educator in private practice in Olympia, Washington.  Her ministerial work focuses on using the transformational power of art in secular and religious institutions based on subject-centered pedagogy, depth psychology, and a theology of relationship and creativity. Her orientation to social justice is grounded in both process theology and our UU tradition originating in the Reformation.