Meet the Minister

Our minister is the Rev. Richard Trudeau, who has been with us since 1995.

Richard does about three-quarters of our Sunday services, along with most child dedications, weddings, and funerals. He also does most of the pastoral visiting.

Richard has a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, and is in Full Final Fellowship with the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Humanists who talk to Richard can come away thinking he's a fellow Humanist. Christians can come away thinking he's a Christian. Theologically he's not either of those, exactly, but he understands and feels considerable sympathy for both points of view, and for others as well. His own religious perspective has been strongly influenced by not only Humanism and Christianity, but also Judaism, Taoism, and the study of nature.

Before becoming a minister Richard was a college professor, teaching mathematics and the history of astronomy, and even after becoming a minister he continued to hold down a college teaching job through 2005.

Apart from ministerial work, Richard is happiest when he is drifting in his kayak in Massachusetts Bay or walking in the woods with his wife, Susan.