Rev. Bev Waring is an Accredited Interim Minister (AIM) currently finishing her ministry at the First Universalist Society in Franklin, MA.  She has served as an interim minister in seven diverse congregations in Massachusetts and NY State. 

Rev. Bev’s journey to ministry has been a winding road. She received an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at the State University of New York at Brockport, and it was her first engineering job that brought Bev from Western New York to Massachusetts. Twelve years later, feeling the need to connect more with people instead of machines and numbers, Bev changed careers and earned her Masters of Social Work degree. Her social work experience ranged from working with people experiencing psychiatric emergencies to assisting mentally ill and addicted homeless people access services to a specialty in hospice social work. She is also a trained mediation consultant. When her call to ministry came, Bev went back to school and in 2009 received her Masters in Divinity degree at Andover Newton Theological School.

Bev describes her personal theology this way: “I feel a kinship to much of what defines a Humanist. I embrace free will, reason, ethics, and justice as essential for a moral code. My approach to spirituality does not assume the concept of a supernatural being but rather finds that which is holy and sacred in between and among human beings and the natural world while being equally interested in living daily life in a rational, ethical and purposeful way. The final piece of my theology comes from Process Theology which asserts that the unfolding present is not yet concrete but is ever changing.  In Process Theology, divine energy, or the spirit of life, or God, is an energy, which lures us towards what is good.”

Beyond her professional life, Bev is a devoted geocacher and enjoys puzzles of all kinds including jigsaw, Sudoku, logic and crosswords. She is an avid reader and volunteers for a local cat rescue group. Bev lives in Marlborough, MA with Donna, her spouse of 44 years.  Experienced dog-rescue fosters, they are awaiting their next dog to “find them” as many others have done in the past.