Treasurer and Lay Liaison

Jim is a life member of the Unitarian Church of Harrisburg, PA, where he co-chairs a major social action project: Helping Women in Prison and their Families (WIPF).  When started in December 2001, it was his congregation's first-ever All Church social action project.After three years it became a lay-led social justice ministry, and is still going strong.

He graduated with an MA in Religion at Lancaster Theological Seminary (LTS) in May 2007. He learned to like chaplaincy in a prison setting because of an LTS field education requirement and continues to do chaplaincy at the county prison as a block chaplain.   He is active with The Interfaith Alliance of PA and other social justice issues, and works for a new coalition on prisoner re-entry in the greater Harrisburg area.