Rev. Barbara Cornell was in a field test of About Your Sexuality when she was a senior in high school and it why she’s a Unitarian Universalist today.
From 1993 to 2007 she was Director of Religious Education at Shoreline UU Church where she made sure to offer both About Your Sexuality and then Our Whole Lives to her community. Her ministry for the past 14 years has been hospital chaplaincy at Providence SwedishEdmonds Hospital, where she also coordinates the bereavement program. She is happily married to Dane Scott, a trained AYS facilitator and they have two young adult children who, naturally, are both graduates of Our Whole Lives.
In the early 1960’s Directors of Religious Education were responding to parent and youth requests for help navigating the changing world of sexuality. They joined forces with the UUA to create a new curriculum for middle schoolers called About Your Sexuality (AYS). Today, we have the lifespan curriculum, Our Whole Lives (or OWL), created in … Continue reading UUs and Sex Education
