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About Robert Latham
Whatever the reason for Rev. Latham’s ministry in your community, the
ultimate goal will be to maximize the spiritual health of the
congregation and facilitate a membership empowerment that portents a new
and challenging destiny.
Rev. Latham is a native Texan, having been born in Wichita Falls. He
grew up in the Southern Baptist tradition. He began preaching at the age
of thirteen, was leading revival meetings during his mid-teens and
ordained at age eighteen. Robert has a BA from Baylor University in
Waco, Texas. He has two Master of Theology degrees.
As a result of a challenging educational experience in seminary his
religious view of reality was transformed. And, as a result of an
equally shattering experience in Vietnam, his cultural perspectives were
also transformed. On the wake of these transformations he discovered
Unitarian Universalism and officially entered our professional ministry
in 1969.
His engagement as a minister has ranged from such varied experiences as
a prolonged battle with the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina during the
nineteen sixties and serving the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada
districts as International Minister at Large in the nineteen eighties.
He created the Committee On Ministry concept and had what is now called
a Worship Associates program back in the late nineteen seventies.
As a UU he has been the settled minister in Davenport, IA, Ft Worth, TX,
Milwaukee, WI and Golden, CO. He has been an Interim Minister in Las
Cruces, NM, Plano, TX, San Francisco, CA, Oakland, CA, Princeton, NJ,
Tucson, AZ and Wilmington, DE. He presently takes on special projects
and heads the Phoenix Consulting Service.
Robert's preaching style is energetic, focused and creative and produces
a provocative moment of teaching and challenge. His workshop style
is both presentational and interactive, a dynamic experience that keeps
participants alert and engaged.
His published works
consist of The Unitarian Universalist Extension Manual (1985),
Moving On From Church Folly Lane (2006) and A Tale of Boxes
(2009).
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