Encountering Multitudes
In 2024, the UUA General Assembly adopted revisions to the Bylaws to include a set of Shared Values of Unitarian Universalism. One of these values is Pluralism. As we come to “live into” our values and explore them in theory and practice, we might pause to ask, “What even is Pluralism? What does it look like? How do we do it?” Rev. Nic Cable joins us for a deeper dive into the contradictions of beauty, promise, peril, and ultimately hope we might find in the work of pluralism. Reflecting on his ministry with the UU Congregation of Columbus, IN, and the development of the Columbus Interfaith Campus, he will invite us to consider how we in the greater Houghton area can explore pluralism as it resides within, among, and beyond.
Since 2017, Rev. Nic Cable has served as Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbus, Indiana — a congregation rooted on an eight-acre interfaith campus shared with Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Pagan communities in southern Indiana. In Columbus, he serves on several nonprofit boards including Turning Point Domestic Violence Services and the Columbus Regional Health Foundation. Rev. Nic is completing a Doctor of Ministry from Meadville Lombard Theological School, where his research focuses on contextual pluralism — what it means for communities to hold genuine difference without flattening it. He lives in Columbus with his wife Hattie and daughters Holiday and Cedar. Rev. Nic and his kids are on a two and half week road trip through Wisconsin and Michigan and are thankful to have the opportunity to visit KUUF and former UUCCI members, Lori and Jason Swanson.