The Reverend Ron Sala

The Rev. Ron Sala has been Parish Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Society in Stamford (UUSIS) since 2001, having previously served congregations in New York and New Jersey. Ron sees his ministry as helping people connect: with their deepest selves, highest good, and others like — and unlike — themselves. He believes that through connection we grow into the people we’re meant to be. Like most Unitarian Universalists (UUs), Ron was not raised in the tradition, yet found discovering the path was like coming home. Raised a Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite, he seeks to combine the spirituality and concern for justice he was brought up with and a UU respect for diversity of belief and practice. His journey has exposed him to such paths as meditation, Transcendentalism, Western esotericism, and earth-centered spirituality, each of which continues to inspire him. Ron was ordained in 2000 and is in final fellowship with the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Eastern Mennonite College (1992) and a Master of Divinity from New York Theological Seminary (1999). His writing has been included in Unitarian Universalism: Selected Essays (2000) and Underground: The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing Archeology and Hidden History (2005), and he is a frequent contributor to The Stamford Advocate. He was awarded the Unitarian Universalists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ Albert Schweitzer Sermon Award (2000). Ron is active in AIDS Interfaith Stamford, Cures Not Wars, and Union Lodge #5, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons. He is a frequent speaker at labor rallies and was one of the ministers who performed same-sex weddings at New Paltz, New York. In his spare time, he enjoys appreciating nature, dream yoga, walking, reading (especially Robert Anton Wilson), and writing poetry and prose. He lives in downtown Stamford, Connecticut with his wife the Rev. ReBecca Ames Sala (a UU hospital chaplain and UUSIS’s Community Minister) and six beloved felines. Select Recent Sermons