Don’t miss Rev. Dr. William Schulz at First Universalist Church in Minneapolis this Sunday, at 9:30 and 11:15am.  Rev. Schulz is the current President and CEO of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) and is a long-time human rights leader, including past president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) and former Executive Director of Amnesty International. His sermon, “In Defense of Barbarians”, will take up the cause of barbarianism and explain how you, too, may fall into that favored category or at least be allied with it.

Dr. William F. Schulz is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress specializing in human rights and serves or has served as a consultant to a variety of foundations, including the MacArthur Foundation, UN Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, and Humanity United of the Omidyar Network, regarding field surveys and evaluation, coalition building, grantee leadership, governance and strategic planning and other issues. He is an Adjunct Professor of Public Administration at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service and an Affiliated Professor at Meadville Lombard Theological School at the University of Chicago. Rev. Schulz served as president of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1985 to 1993.

From 1994-2006 Dr. Schulz served as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA.   During his twelve years at Amnesty, Dr. Schulz led missions to Liberia, Tunisia, Northern Ireland, and Sudan. He also traveled tens of thousands miles in the United States promoting human rights causes and was frequently quoted in the media.  He is the author of two books on human rights, In Our Own Best Interest:  How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All  (2001, Beacon Press) and Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights  (2003, Nation Books); and the contributing editor of The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary  (2007, University of Pennsylvania Press) and The Future of Human Rights: US Policy for a New Era (2008, University of Pennsylvania Press).  All of this prompted the New York Review of Books to say in 2002, “William Schulz…has done more than anyone in the American human rights movement to make human rights issues known in the United States.”