Rev. Lauren Spivey Levwood
Reverend Lauren Spivey Levwood is an ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister in fellowship with the Unitarian Universalist Association. She holds a Master of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry, a UU-identity seminary located in California’s Bay Area. Reverend Lauren also studied on a full merit-based scholarship at the esteemed Wake Forest University School of Divinity, an ecumenical and progressive seminary in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Reverend Lauren currently serves as Minister to two congregations: the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Washington County in Hillsboro, Oregon and the Unitarian Universalists of the Blue Ridge in Virginia. She also serves as the Board Chair for the Unitarian Universalists Ministry for Earth.
Previously, Reverend Lauren served as the Assistant Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond, Virginia, a large, 650-member church in the heart of the city. In addition, she has served as a Chaplain at hospitals in both Fredericksburg, Virginia and Tallahassee, Florida, giving her a depth of experience in pastoral care.
In addition to her ministry experience, Reverend Lauren has a background in women’s health as a massage therapist and birth doula, and in the arts world as a modern dancer. She holds two Bachelors of Arts from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in Dance and Philosophy.
Reverend Lauren is drawn to embodied and earth-based spiritual practices, religious naturalism, and experiences of awe and wonder arising from art, poetry, music, and the natural world. Raised Baptist, she is comfortable with liberal Christian theology and the ways that it informs the roots of Unitarian Universalism. She has also studied and practiced several world religions, including Buddhism, Judaism, Sikhism, Sufism, Paganism, and Native American spirituality.
Reverend Lauren currently lives in Stafford, Virginia, with her partner and co-parent, Reverend William Levwood (also a UU Minister), their eleven-year-old daughter, Haya, and black tuxedo cat, Comet.
