22 Aug 2011 10:48 AM
Where We Were
Everyone in the community is invited to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a commemorative service on Sunday, September 11, at 11 a.m. with special guest preacher, the Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason, a long-time member of UNMC who was in Lower Manhattan on that Tuesday morning. Her sermon is entitled, "Where We Were: 9/11 Ten Years Later".
You can read about Dr. Mason's spiritual journey and her life at UNMC at Pilgrim to Professional: One Minister's Story.
The Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason is a community minister who also maintains a private practice as a clinical pastoral psychotherapist in New York City. The former director of the Pastoral Care and Counseling Programs at the historic Blanton-Peale Institute, she taught on its faculty from 2008-2011, having previously worked as a staff therapist at its Counseling Center. Dr. Mason is now an affiliate clinician with the Trauma Treatment Center at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) as well as an alumna of the NIP one-year training program with the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy (ASP). Currently, serves as the ASP Board Vice-President and Curriculum Co-Chair of its training program. In addition, she acts as a crisis responder with the national Unitarian Universalist Trauma Response Ministry. A graduate of both Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, she was ordained by the Community Church of New York in 2006 and still teaches adult religious education there. An anthologized essayist, Dr. Mason has published numerous articles in the popular press as well as in the recent Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, writing on such topics as "The Sacrament of Gratitude" and "Story as Scripture, Therapy, Ritual." She lectures, speaks, and preaches throughout metropolitan New York, where she acts as a mental health consultant to various faith groups.
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