Center for Continuous Learning

Rev. Reebee Kavich Girash serves as Pastor and Teacher of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Lexington, MA, and as Denominational Counselor to United Church of Christ Students and Instructor on Church Polity at Harvard Divinity School. She has been an authorized minister in the Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ for more than twenty years. In Rev. Rebee's formative years at Harvard Divinity School, she was part of a generation of new clergy influenced by the pain of clergy sex abuse scandals, most publicly in the Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese. She has been active in Boundary Awareness Training for more than fifteen years. She comes to this work having seen up close the consequences of both clergy burnout and clergy misconduct. She has witnessed the damage boundary violations inflict upon churches and how congregations can mirror clergy dysfunction. She has seen careers end after a boundary violation, and she has also seen colleagues come back from the gray zones.

Rev. Gregory R. Morisse is Pastor and Teacher of The Plymouth Church in Framingham, MA. He has been an authorized minister in the Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ for more than twenty years. In his formative years at Harvard Divinity School, Rev. Greg was part of a generation of new clergy influenced by the pain of clergy sex abuse scandals, most publicly in the Boston Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church. Rev. Greg has been active in Boundary Awareness Training for more than fifteen years. He comes to the work having seen up close the consequences of both clergy burnout and clergy misconduct. He has witnessed the damage boundary violations inflict upon churches and how congregations can mirror clergy dysfunction. He has seen careers end after a boundary violation, and he has seen other colleagues come back from the gray zones.