02/17/2026
Leading our next Sunday service on February 22nd, is our congregation member, Beth-Ann Tek.
Beth Tek, Ph.D., is a lifelong learner, listener, and builder of bridges between data and meaning, insight, and action. Her work has long centered on a simple but enduring question: What helps people and communities truly flourish?
By training, Beth is a scholar and implementation scientist; by practice, a partner to educators, leaders, and organizations seeking to align values with lived experience. She is the founder of Flourishing Associates and a Senior Fellow of the Flourishing Network, convened by the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, where she collaborates with others across the globe exploring how well-being, purpose, and justice take root in real systems and everyday lives.
Beyond her professional work, Beth’s deepest teachers are her children, who continually remind her that flourishing is not abstract; it is lived in daily choices, relationships, repair, and care. She brings to this congregation the same spirit that guides her work and parenting alike: curiosity, compassion, humility, and a deep respect for the wisdom that emerges when we listen carefully to one another.
Beth is grateful to reflect alongside this community today, not as an expert offering answers, but as a fellow traveler asking meaningful questions.
