Staff

Rev. Stephen Kendrick

Senior Minister

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Phone: 617-267-6730 x 224

A UU minister for nearly 25 years, Stephen came to Boston in 2001, successor to Rev. Rhys Williams’ 40 year ministry at First Church.  Stephen’s hopes are to grow the congregation in spirit and warmth, and to make First Church a visible and strong progressive voice in Boston life.

He has served as minister at The Universalist Church of West Hartford, Connecticut; the Unitarian Universalist Society of Howard County (now named Columbia), Maryland; the Unitarian Church of York, Pennsylvania; and Unitarian chapels in the Midlands, England. His partner is Elizabeth Kendrick, a social worker, and he is the happy father of Paul, Anna, and Elizabeth.

Stephen is the author of Holy Clues (Pantheon, 1999) and Night Watch (Pantheon, 2001) and, with his son Paul, Sarah’s Long Walk (Beacon Press, 2004) and Douglass and Lincoln (Walker and Co., 2008).

Stephen will be on sabbatical during the first months of 2009. Click here and here for a message from Stephen about his sabbatical.