Gallery – Rev. Scott Wells

March 3, 2022

Visiting the Ukrainian embassy

I was restless after work and needed exercise. Before I knew it, I was walking the mile or more to the Ukrainian embassy in Georgetown.

As I am sure with many of you, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has worried and upset me deeply. But I am also emboldened to see the people of Kyiv, Kharkov, Lviv and other places not be cowed; the crisis is existential and they will not capitulate. This is no time for polite handwringing or (worse) both-siderism.

So after taking a few pictures to share, I prayed for these people and hopes to a quick and just resolution to the invasion. And if not, then blessing and strength under their suffering and loss.

Will you join me in this prayer? And should you be in a position to do so, send money in relief?

July 4, 2014

Mixed photos from General Assembly

2014-06-27 16.53.51 — UUCF executive director Ron Robinson before the annual communion service

2014-06-27 21.19.17 — From the Service of the Living Tradition

2014-06-27 15.32.24 — Um, I never thought I’d see these again.

June 14, 2014

Getting ready for GA: weekend project

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June 5, 2014

"Heeding God's Call" in Dupont Circle

Heeding God’s Call is a “a faith-based movement to prevent gun violence.” It has put out 176 t-shirts as a movable memorial for those dead from gun violence in metro D.C. in 2013. In June, it is installed at Church of the Pilgrims, Presbyterian, in my neighborhood.

March 19, 2014

A visit — heck, let's call it a pilgrimage — to Mt. Auburn Cemetery

Mt. Auburn Cemetery is well known as the nation’s first “garden cemetery” which, though now the norm, contrasted with the gloomy church yard or burial ground. But Mt. Auburn does it better than any I’ve seen and there lies the mortal remains of many a famous Universalist and Unitarian.

I joined dear friends, also Unitarian Universalist ministers, Hank Peirce and Adam Tierney-Eliot, there on March 17 to visit a just a couple of luminaries and brave the late-winter ice.

2014-03-17 10.30.18 — Fanny Farmer is buried here with family.

Adam Tierney-Eliot (left) and Hank Peirce with token Unitarian, William Ellery Channing

March 16, 2014

New 24

I took this picture of 24 Farnsworth, the future home of the UUA, yesterday after arriving at Boston South Station. A former industrial area, reminds me a bit of lower Georgetown, in the District of Columbia. More food options nearby than 25 Beacon, too.

January 1, 2014

Starting the new year, family style

Like most Southerners, I want black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day. My husband and I thought this was the right time to inaugurate my late grandmother’s West Bend Slo-Cooker.

My father discovered it years ago when he was cleaning out his mother’s house. And wonders of wonders: the cooker, a bank account premium — if you’re old enough to remember those — had never been used. From 1976, no less.

It worked like a charm, and the peas are tasty and vegan. (I used olive oil, salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, smoked paprika and dried basil to taste.)

Happy New Year!