Sarah Voss

Consulting Minister
(1999-2004)

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She holds a Doctor of Ministry from the Meadville/Lombard Theological School in Chicago and has served congregations in Chicago and Iowa. In her role as minister, she has written Singing, Laughing, Weeping, Praying: A Story in Poems; Voice to Voice, Heart to Heart (The Story of an Interim Ministry); and Out of Our Prayers, Hope.

Sarah Voss is a Unitarian Universalist minister, author, and lecturer.

She travels, lectures, and preaches widely, and she presents an original seminar "Math: The New Language of Theology."

A former mathematics professor, the Rev. Voss specializes in making metaphysical ideas accessible to lay people through the language of mathematics. Her work in this interdisciplinary arena includes her 1995 book What Number Is God? Subtitled "Metaphors, Metaphysics, Metamathematics, and the Nature of Things," this book is a part of the State University of New York (SUNY) Series in Western Esoteric Traditions.

Dr. Voss . . .

has been troubled by the line separating science and religion, and seeks new language for talking about religion. the Quest, a Quarterly Journal of Philosophy, Science, Religion & the Arts
has written a primer for modern metaphysics, especially one that is focused upon the way mathematical insights provide a means to explore issues of meaning. The Reader's Review
is in resonance with the current revolt against logical consistency, which extends beyond romantic reveries and spills into the scientific framework. Science and Technology
believes there is another side of mathematics; a side in which we can examine such disparate themes as economics or the human heart through the parameters of mathematics. Barnes & Noble Book Signing Note
addresses the problem of metaphor in science, a topic of great concern in both literary theory circles and in the field of science and technology studies. Sal Restivo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
has done masterful work of bringing together disparate fields... Original. Sincere. Peter A. Pav, Eckerd College

Dr. Voss' work on the math/theology connection has also been published in Mathematics Teacher, Philosophia Mathematica, Insights (The Magazine for the Chicago Center for Religion and Science) and the Publisher's Weekly Religion Bookline. She wrote "The Religious Trial Newton Never Had" for Faith and Freedom (Oxford, England). For The World, the Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association, she penned an article titled "Our Electronic Church." More than ninety of her poems and articles have been published in various newspapers and journals.

After receiving a bachelor of science degree from Ohio State University, she completed a Master of Arts for Teachers (emphasis in mathematics) from the University of Cincinnati. Before she entered seminary, she taught mathematics in public schools, colleges, and universities. In 1997, she began the People's Insight (Pi) Center, designed to meet the non-traditional faith needs of modern society. This Pi-Zine for Math-based Theology is an electronic magazine of the center.

Dr. Voss and her husband live in Omaha, where she is also a city police chaplain. She is the mother of three children, two step-children and three step-grandchildren.