Wecome to my website. I am so glad you came. My name is Pallas Stanford. I am a U.S. citizen, a reluctant daughter of empire, born and raised in the South, former lawyer, performance and liturgical artist wannabe, happily pursuing the work of Unitarian Universalist ministry as my last chance for a job in the real world. In that regard, I am currently serving my second year as Interim Minister ar the First UU Congregation of the Palm Beaches where my commitment is to leave them knowing themselves as loved and empowered and capable of transforming themselves and the world.
I earned my M.Div. degree in May, 2003 from Starr King School for the Ministry, the UU member seminary of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. I earned my law degree and a masters degree in psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Law and Psychology program back in 1986 because I believed that the integration of these fields would help make justice come more alive on the planet. So, the switch from law to ministry was not the major shift for me that people sometimes think it must've been. I went to law school regarding law and every form of learning as a gift of the divine to humanity. I haven't changed my view though now I realize more fully the degree to which they've been put to uses unbefitting their natures.
The lovingoverthrow is what I began to call my work in seminary. It consists of a moral philosophy and a political theology seeking to give expression to the compassion I feel as ineffable source and fullness of being, capable of overthrowing all things in love, aching to be made ever more clearly known in ways that matter to people and the planet. The lovingoverthrow is the sustainable enterprise that takes hold in the margins and in the cracked foundations of empire's stronghold.
I am the mother of a beautiful and accomplished young woman named Kynthia and the partner of a wonderful man, Lloyd. I have a mom and a dad and a stepmom and a brother and a sister and a large extended family that I love and enjoy. I also have a precious network of former partners, friends, and colleagues. Upon all of these, I rely for encouragement and humor and prodding and all the good things that come from human kinship and community.