Do you have a book that has informed your life? A long-time favorite of Rev. Maddie’s is Parker Palmer’s “Let Your Life Speak: Listening to the Voice of Vocation.” Is how we live our life congruent with our deepest sense of self and meaning? How does our life speak to us in these times? And how do all our lives here is this community allow us to flourish together?

Maddie Sifantus retired in July, 2024 as. full-time settled minister of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Santa Paula, California where she is now Minister Emerita.