Worship – The Existential Threat of Christian Nationalism with Rev. Dr. Tom Cruse

This week’s service will be multi-platform: onsite, as well as on Zoom and Facebook.

To join us online via Zoom, click here. If joining us by phone via Zoom:

Dial 1 312 626 6799 or 1 646 876 9923 and enter Meeting ID: 953 8114 7453 and Passcode: 869000 at prompts.

This service will be recorded and/or live-streamed to Facebook. If you do not want to be included in the recording, please turn off your camera, mute your microphone, and change your name to “MVUUF” (these are all Zoom options once you join the meeting).

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Rev. Dr. Tom Cruse received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford Univ (63/64), before receiving his PhD from the Univ Washington (67).  For decades, Tom worked as an Aerospace engineer/researcher at Boeing, Pratt & Whitney and as a professor of Mechanical Engineering (CMU; Vanderbilt [Emeritus Status in 1999]).  During his independent work, he was a Member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (2000-2004), Chief Technologist of the Air Force Research Laboratory HQ (Dayton; 2004-2008), and a Private Consultant (1999-2012).  Tom & Katherine first joined a UU congregation in Pittsburgh PA in 1968, followed as they moved around the US by several other UU churches/fellowships. In the 2013 he decided to pursue the ministry.  Tom received his Master of Divinity from the Iliff School of Theology in Denver CO in 2019.  From 2016 to 2023, he served as the CEO of the Dayton Urban Ministry Center and was ordained to Community Ministry by the Federation of Christian Ministries in 2018.  Today, Rev. Tom holds dual church memberships, as a member of Dayton’s Living the Beatitudes Community, and as a member of MVUUF. He is also on the Board of the Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio.