Columbus, Indiana
Rev.
Nic
Cable
Minister
Civic Leader
Scholar
I help people imagine — and build — the world they actually want to live in.
I help people imagine — and build — the world they actually want to live in.
Ministry is not what a minister does alone — it is what a community does together. Since 2017 I have served that shared ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbus, Indiana — a progressive, covenantal community rooted in love and committed to justice.
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.
Connector and civic leader working toward Columbus becoming a community for all — serving on nonprofit boards and committees including the Columbus Regional Health Foundation and Turning Point Domestic Violence Services, and actively supporting Quest Columbus.
Available for
Congregations, organizations, and conferences — on leading across difference, nurturing diverse religious and cultural communities, and creating the conditions in which pluralism comes alive."
Organizational discernment and strategic visioning for communities navigating difference, change, and growth.
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 UUCCI and to help build the Columbus Interfaith Campus — eight acres on the west side of the city where five faith communities are realizing 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 — named after the place where Moses encountered a burning bush that burned without being consumed. I keep returning to that image for inspiration in my life of service and ministry.
Encountering Multitudes: Toward a UU Theology of Contextual Pluralism
Doctor of Ministry Dissertation · In Progress
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt WhitmanA theological framework holding that genuine encounter with difference is not a problem to manage but the constitutive condition of human and societal flourishing.
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 in the face of difference and multiplicity. Porosity without resilience dissolves. Resilience without porosity hardens.
On the west side of Columbus, Indiana, something unusual has taken root. Five distinct 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.
Sermons, essays, and dispatches from the ongoing work of ministry, scholarship, and civic life in Columbus, Indiana.