Columbus, Indiana
Rev.
Nic
Cable
Minister
Civic Leader
Scholar
I help communities imagine - and build - the world they actually want to live in.
I help communities imagine - and build - the world they actually want to live in.
Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbus, Indiana, since 2017 — a progressive and inclusive religious community in Southern Indiana that celebrates love and works for justice, while being a beacon for diverse religious thought and courageous action.
Doctor of Ministry Candidate, developing a practical theology of contextual pluralism. The argument: the human is a sacred multitude, space is a theological agent, and we must foster resilient porosity within and beyond our congregations — because how we understand what it means to be human determines whether pluralism is possible at all.
Visionary and bridge builder for the Columbus Interfaith Campus — eight shared acres of land where five distinct communities are realizing a vision of cultural pluralism, resilient democracy, true dialogue, and lasting peace in the world.
Speaker, facilitator, and consultant for communities and organizations navigating difference in order to achieve greater resilience and vitality. Helping build the civic infrastructure Columbus — and communities like it — need to become what they aspire to be.
Available for
Congregations, civic organizations, conferences, and interfaith gatherings on pluralism, theology, and community.
Organizational discernment, congregational transitions, and communities navigating difference and change.
Weddings, memorials, and life ceremonies — designed with care for the people and the moment.
For Unitarian Universalists, the local congregation and the wider community shape one another. That's always been true of my ministry.
I live in Columbus, Indiana with my family — and I love it enough to want to change it for the better. That conviction is what drew me to the Columbus Interfaith Campus, eight acres on the west side of the city where five faith communities are building something together — a glimpse, I believe, of what a genuinely pluralistic society can actually look like.
I write regularly about the theology and practice of living across difference. The newsletter is called Notes from Mt. Horeb — after the place where Moses encountered a burning bush that burned without being consumed. That image does a lot of work for me.
Read Notes from Mt. HorebEncountering Multitudes: Toward a UU Theology of Contextual Pluralism
Doctor of Ministry Dissertation · In Progress
Covenant is only possible in multiplicity. We do not covenant with mirrors.
— From the dissertationA theological framework holding that genuine encounter with difference is not a problem to manage but the constitutive condition of human flourishing — and of faithful community.
The constructive claim that human beings are, by nature, beings shaped for multiplicity. We are not monophilic creatures who merely tolerate difference — we require it to become fully ourselves.
The capacity of a community — or a person — to remain genuinely open to the other without losing coherence. Porosity without resilience dissolves. Resilience without porosity hardens.
On the west side of Columbus, Indiana, something unusual has taken root. Five distinct faith communities share eight acres — not as tenants, but as co-stewards of a living experiment in what pluralism looks like when it's embodied rather than merely declared.
Whether you're thinking about a speaking invitation, a consulting engagement, an interfaith collaboration, or just want to follow the work — I'm glad you're here.