Rev. Dr. Rebecca Armstrong is a minister in the liberal religious tradition, dedicated to the free and conscious search for truth. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School, Meadville-Lombard Unitarian Seminary and The Chicago Theological Seminary. She is ordained and has practiced as a Humanist minister since 1992. After serving several Chicago area churches she chose to establish herself as a consulting minister in private practice, serving the spiritual needs of those without church affiliation. Most of her clients describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious.”

Rev. Rebecca specializes in creating ceremonies for all of life's great transitions: weddings, christenings, coming-of-age, cronings, memorials, divorce and other rites of passage. In addition, she works with individuals, couples and families as a spiritual counselor and to create specialized rituals of transformation for healing, overcoming grief, house blessings, transitions into death, life review and spiritual legacies.

A professional musician and mythologist, she worked for twelve years as International OutReach Director with the Joseph Campbell Foundation, leading seminars around the world on the importance of myth and ritual in contemporary life. As a minister, she has been a guest preacher, educator and workshop leader in churches around the country and abroad. She co-founded an interfaith group called Friends of Compassion which pioneered many service projects here and in India. It was that work that led her to India and her meeting with the Dali Lama. Her work has received wide attention in the media and she has been published in magazines, journals and books.

She teaches classes in religion, ethics, mythology and cultural anthropology at DePaul University in Chicago and at Purdue University in Indiana.    

Contact Rev. Rebecca by email at: ceremonies@aol.com