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What do our enemies reveal about who we truly are? Naming and confronting our adversaries can become a profound spiritual practice, one that clarifies what we value most and calls us to fully embody our Unitarian Universalist values. By meeting opposition with courage and compassion, we learn to center love in our lives and recognize humanity even in those we oppose.

Yvette McDonnell, a Ministerial Candidate going before the MFC in December (she/her), serves as the Congregational Care Coordinator at Main Line Unitarian Church in Devon, PA. With roots in the African American Baptist tradition, she embraces a diversity of spiritual perspectives and ways of knowing. Yvette’s ministry centers on right relations, liberation, social justice, and the spirit of Yielubugnra, “the thing that knowledge cannot eat.” This guiding philosophy highlights her belief that the essence and power of life often transcend human categorization. Her theology, grounded in womanist queer spirituality, asserts that there is no separation between the material, secular, and sacred realms and that the supernatural permeates everyday existence. Outside of her professional life, Yvette enjoys dancing, long walks, arts and crafts, baking, gardening, and creating herbal medicines.