Arlington Street Church, Unitarian Universalist. Gathered in Love and Service for Justice and Peace. 351 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
 

About Us

Ministerial & Administrative Staff

•   Rev. Beth Robbins • Executive Minister
•   Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie • Senior Minister
•   Mark David Buckles • Director of Music

Community Ministers

•   Rev. Ali Jablonsky, Chaplain, Tufts Medical Center
•   Dr. Arthur Judge, Retired Chaplain, Brigham and Women's Hospital
•   Erica Rose Long, Chaplain, Massachusetts General Hospital
•   Rev. Fred Small, Minister for Climate Justice
•   Rev. George G. Whitehouse, Community Minister at Large
•   kel alford, Student Minister
•   Rev. Joanna Lubkin, Chaplain, Wellesley College
•   Rev. John E. Gibbons, Community Minister for Good Trouble
•   Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason, Minister for Spiritual Direction
•   Rev. Vera O'Brian, Chaplain, South Shore Hospital


Rev. Kim

Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie • Senior Minister • office@ascboston.org

The Reverend Ms. Kim K. Crawford Harvie was raised in Concord, Massachusetts and graduated with honors from Middlebury College (Vermont) and Harvard Divinity School. Ordained into the Unitarian Universalist ministry in 1984, she spent the following year as an intern at First Parish in Brewster, Massachusetts. In 1985, she was called to the Universalist Meeting House in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which she served until 1989. In 1987, she received the Maximilian Kolbe Award for Community Service and, in 1988, she was named Provincetown Citizen of the Year. In 1989, she  was called to Arlington Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, where she continues to serve as Senior Minister. 

In Boston, Rev. Crawford Harvie co-founded two non-profit organizations: In the Best Interests of the Children, dedicated to providing educational and material assistance to young people and families affected by pediatric HIV/AIDS; and The Shared Heart, a traveling exhibition and book of photographs (released in 1997 by William Morrow) of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teenagers with accompanying text in their own words, designed to support the Massachusetts Safe Schools Initiative.

In 1992, Rev. Crawford Harvie was the recipient of Harvard Divinity School's First Decade Award. In the same year, Rev. Crawford Harvie also received distinguished alumnae awards from Middlebury College and Concord Carlisle High School. In 1996, the Legacy Foundation named Rev. Crawford Harvie Uncommon Woman of the Year. In 1999, Rev. Crawford Harvie was named one of ten delegates from the United States to Women Waging Peace, an international women's peacemaking initiative. In 2002, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston honored her as one of 100 outstanding women in the Commonwealth. In 2004, Rev. Crawford Harvie performed the first same-sex wedding in a church in the United States.

Having raised three daughters (the younger two adopted in Peru) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kim and her wife, Kem Morehead, a math teacher at Concord Academy, now serve as houseparents for 27 teenagers.

 

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Rev. Beth

Rev. Beth Robbins • Executive Minister • office@ascboston.org

The Rev. Beth Robbins has served Arlington Street Church since 2015. After completing her ministerial internship and being ordained by the congregation, she was named Executive Minister in 2019. Before entering seminary, she had an extensive career in public sector leadership at several national organizations, including The Melville Charitable Trust, Ms. Magazine, Family Equality Council, and the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Richmond and earned an MBA in nonprofit management with high honors from Boston University. She completed her seminary education as the John D. Wolf Scholar at Meadville Lombard Theological School, where she was awarded the Clayton Bowen Prize in New Testament Studies and the Charles Billings Scholarship Prize for Academic Excellence.

 

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Rev. George

Rev. George G. Whitehouse • Minister at Large • GWhitehouse@ascboston.org

The Reverend George G. Whitehouse was appointed Minister-at-Large by the Arlington Street Church under the Reverend Jack Mendelsohn in 1969. He attended Northeastern University and Harvard Divinity School and was ordained by Arlington Street Church. Since 1969 he has represented ASC in many social outreach programs involving students, children, families and several Juvenile Criminal Justice start-up programs. George is currently on the board of the Bethany Union for Young Women (a subsidized housing facility in Boston for young women between the ages of 18–30), the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Heritage Society, and the Tuckerman Coalition (a consortium of UU’s advocating for legislation affecting families and children living in poverty). He has also been the resident Campanologist at ASC since 1961.

 

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Mark

Mark David Buckles • Director of Music • MBuckles@ascboston.org

Mark David Buckles, conductor, composer, music educator, and multi-instrumentalist, is a native of Beverly Hills, Michigan. Mark received his Masters of Music in Conducting at the Boston University College of Fine Arts and his Bachelors of Music in Composition from the University of Michigan School of Music.

Mark serves as Adjunct Professor of Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and as Music Director Emeritus of Juventas, the acclaimed Boston-based New Music Ensemble dedicated to performing the works of young composers, which he co-founded in 2005.

In 2003 and 2005, Mark participated in the European American Music Alliance in Paris, where he received honors for his studies in counterpoint and harmony. Mark is also a 2006 graduate of the Conductors’ Institute at Bard College.

A prolific composer and arranger of choral, vocal, and instrumental music, Mark has received commissions from the University of Michigan Women’s Glee Club, the University of Michigan Honors Convocation, Miller College, and Dixboro United Methodist Church. His works have been performed and recorded by the University of Michigan Chamber Choir, the Boston Choral Ensemble, the Boston University Concert Chorus, the Saint Petersburg String Quartet, and various other ensembles.

 

Updated October, 2023