Biography

The Rev. Betty Jo Middleton has served eight congregations in the Greater Washington area in positions in ministry and religious education and as Life Span Religious Education Consultant for the Joseph Priestley District.

She has written religious education materials for all ages. Her work has appeared in the Unitarian Universalism: Selected Essays, Unitarian Universalist Ministers' Association 1987 and 1996; Religious Education. The Journal of the Religious Education Association; First Days' Record, and. with Roberta M. Nelson, a chapter on "The Ministry of Religious Education" for Leaping from Our Spheres, UUMA 2001. Her life style articles, food columns, photographs and poems have appeared in newspapers and regional magazines. She received the UUA's Angus McLean Award for Excellence in Religious Education in 2004.

She has taught religious education classes at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., (with The Reverend Margaret Corletti) and at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago.