For all who inhabit a body and wonder about its place in the universe, Rev. Christina Kukuk finds the spiritual in the most material bodily experiences: a twenty-one-year-old victim of the opioid crisis, the mother who plants an orchard in his memory, a girl’s tumble through food scarcity, an adolescent awakening to infatuation at summer camp, and a woman waiting hours for her lover’s recovery on a hospital’s transplant floor. Using her book Loving What Doesn’t Last, Rev. Kukuk invites us into an adoration of the body—where birth, food, love, pain, death, and water become skin-wrapped windows into the holy.

Christina Kukuk lives in Southern Oregon, where she works both as a hospice chaplain and as the community resilience program manager for the Jackson County Community Long-Term Recovery Group. A newspaper and magazine reporter in her first career, Christina has been an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ for the past 17 years, serving congregations in Ohio, Minnesota, and Oregon.Christina can be found online on Facebook and Instagram @revchristinakukuk or www.christinakukuk.com

This worship service will be live in our Great Hall and livestreamed on our YouTube channel. Rev. Christian will be available to sell and sign copies of her book after worship.