About Us
Ministerial & Administrative Staff
• Rev. Parisa Parsa • Senior Minister
• Rev. Beth Robbins • Executive Minister
• Mark David Buckles • Director of Music
• Jeff Fogleman • Congregational Administrator
Community Ministers
• Rev. Ali Jablonsky, Chaplain, Tufts Medical Center
• Dr. Arthur Judge, Retired Chaplain, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Rev. 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, Acting Minister of Faith Formation and Congregational Life, First Parish in Sherborn
• Rev. John E. Gibbons, Community Minister for Good Trouble
• Rev. John O’Connor, Community Minister for Good Works
• Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason, Minister for Spiritual Direction
Welcome our new Senior Minister
Welcome Rev. Parisa Parsa!
We are delighted to introduce our new Senior Minister, Rev. Parisa Parsa. You can learn more about her here. Let’s give Rev. Parisa a warm welcome!
You may reach Parisa at seniorminister AT ascboston DOT org
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.
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.
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 August 2024