What we practice shapes who we are, whether we’re conscious of it, or not. And as Barbara Brown Taylor reminds us, “anything can be a spiritual practice” if you’re willing to approach it that way. Could giving be a spiritual practice? How do our practices of giving shape who we are as individuals and as a community?

Meg McGuire is a rising third year Masters of Divinity student at Starr King School for the Ministry, where she serves as a student representative to the Starr King Board of Trustees and is one of the 2019-2020 Hilda Mason Teaching Fellows. She is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, which has long inspired her commitments to social justice work and love of spiritual community. Prior to discerning a call to ministry, she spent five years working as a labor organizer with hotel and restaurant workers in New York City and endeavors to integrate her background in organizing and economic justice work into her ministerial formation. Meg holds an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Wesleyan University and a certificate in Justice Ministry Education from Auburn Seminary.