We come to UU Marin for the fellowship, friendship, and mutual support that community provides. But why a religious community, particularly for those who don’t consider themselves religious or for whom the word and concept of religion is fraught? We’ll explore this question together.

Dave Hudson was born and raised in New England, the son of a liberal Methodist minister and the daughter of his father’s favorite professor at Boston University School of Theology. He met Kate at Bowdoin College in Maine. They were married in 1976, the year he began his working life at a small private school in Concord, Massachusetts (across the Concord River from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s house) where he taught 4 th graders the three Rs and nature. Although he loved that work, he left it to earn a living wage, joining a big forest products company that moved their growing family around the country, eventually to its headquarters in Atlanta, where they spent the next thirty years. He finished his business career in his own small company, exporting paper to Mexico. Along the way in 1981, they found Unitarian Universalism in Geneva, Illinois. They have been active members of four UU congregations, all of which have been central to their lives. In December of 2021,, they moved to Pacheco Valle in Novato from the lovely coastal town of Beaufort, South Carolina, a place they had thought would be their last stop in retirement, lured by their three sons and their families, who all live in the Bay Area. Here they are involved with Marin Audubon, the UC Climate Stewards program, the Novato Baylands Stewards, and UU Marin, of course. Dave has been a lifelong birder who enjoys being in nature in many ways—hiking, sailing, kayaking, skiing.

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