Like any habit, war has worn a groove in our consciousness, so that when we become very afraid, or very angry, the response of war comes naturally. But the process of finding peace involves a compilation of practices, because the way to find peace in life is not the same for everyone.
Rev. Addae Ama Kraba currently serves as Minister to the Unitarian Universalist New Braunfels congregation in Texas. She earned a Master of Divinity from the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California immediately after receiving a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco. Reverend Addae Ama Kraba served as intern for Community Church of New York, Unitarian Universalist where she was ordained into the Unitarian Universalist Denomination.
Prior to ministry, she spent over twenty years in the field of mental health that led to employment in Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, and the Hawaiian Islands. Having served at all levels of the Unitarian Universalist denomination, beginning with the Committee for Antiracism, Anti- Oppression and Multiculturalism of the UUA, trustee on the board of the Murray Grove Retreat and Conference Center in Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey, and also on the board of the Joseph Priestly District, Reverend Kraba was called to be present as Chaplain providing Pastoral Care in New Orleans, Louisiana after hurricane Katrina, and again to the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist Church shooting in Tennessee.
She is a member of DRUUM (Diverse, Revolutionary, and Unitarian Universalist Ministers), a former Co-Convener of Unitarian Universalist Women and Religion, and former president of the Unitarian Universalist International Women’s Convocation (IWC). Reverend Kraba has published works in She is Everywhere, Vol II an anthology of Writing in Womanist/Feminist Spirituality, Skinner House Publications, Lifting Our Voices, Readings in The Living Tradition, Voices from
The Margins an anthology of Meditations, Conversations With The Sacred, a collection of prayers, and The “Book of Prayers and Meditations” written by Unitarian Universalist Women Worldwide, celebrating 450 years of religious freedom. The Rough Side of the Mountain: Black Women’s Ministries in Unitarian Universalism.
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 