our ministerRev. Edmund Robinson
Office hours: 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesdays, and other times by appointment. Mobile: 617-710-0508 Email: edmuund@gmail.com Hello! I am the contract minister at First Parish, Hingham, Unitarian Universalist, for the 2023-24 church year, with the possibility of extension for the future. In the meantime, I’d like to meet you, get to know you and invite you to come to one of our Old Ship services to see if this congregation is what you are looking for. Here’s who I am: I was ordained into the Unitarian Universalist ministry in 1999, and have served five congregations prior to Old Ship. Before coming here, I was the interim minister at First Church in Boston, from 2021 to 2023. From 2008 to 2019, I was minister at the UU Meeting House in Chatham, Massachusetts. Before then, I was interim minister at the Unitarian Church of Staten Island, N.Y. (2007-2008), minister at the First Church in Belmont, Massachusetts, Unitarian Universalist (2004-2007), and minister at the First Universalist Society of Wakefield, Massachusetts (1999-2004). Prior to entering the ministry, I was a trial attorney in South Carolina and Boston. I graduated from Yale in 1970 with a major in Anthropology, and was in the charter class to receive my Juris Doctor from Antioch School of Law in Washington, DC in 1975. My seminary training was at Harvard Divinity School, culminating in an M.Div. in 1999. I have been on the board of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) and have served as Minister of the Week at two IRAS conferences held on Star Island, NH. I have given a paper at the Parliament of World Religions in Salt Lake City in 2016 arguing that evil does not exist. I am an avid folk musician, folk promoter and dancer; I sing and play fiddle, banjo and concertina. I’m married to the pianist Jacqueline Schwab, who is best known for her playing on Ken Burns’ documentaries. We live in Lexington, MA. I also have two children from a previous marriage and two grandsons in England. Videos of many of my sermons are available under my name on YouTube, together with songs and tunes I recorded during the pandemic under the name Quarantunes. Much of my philosophy and some of my sermons are collected in a website I constructed for use in my ministerial searches which can be accessed at halloballou.Wordpress.com. Drop me a line, let me know about yourself. Where are you on your spiritual journey? My office hours are Tuesday from 1:30 to 5. You can text me or phone me at 617-710-0508 or email me at edmuund@gmail.com. I can also “meet” you on Zoom or FaceTime. How to reach Edmund: Parish House office phone: 781-749-1679 Edmund's email: edmuund@gmail.com |
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