2020 Theme Speaker
In
an address to the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association, The Rev. Otis Moss III, senior
pastor of the 8,000-member Trinity United Church of Christ, named him "without a doubt one of
the greatest ministers and gifts to this nation." Artist, theologian, teacher Dr. Glen Thomas
Rideout's is among Unitarian Universalism's most prolific worship leaders, an influential voice in
worship and music craft in a season of fundamental culture shift faith-wide.
As Director of Worship and Music for First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor, Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout leads the uncommonly-collaborative, team worship planning process he created with the Rev. Gail Ruth Geisenhainer (GUISE-in-hayner) in 2014. During his tenure, Ann Arbor’s worship and music ministries risen to a denominational leader in congregational singing innovation, ensemble spiritual practice, and liturgical imagination.