Our minister, Edmund Robinson, is also a lawyer and folk musician. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1999, and was ordained in January 1999. Before coming to seminary, he practiced criminal defense and civil liberties law in Charleston, South Carolina. He plays banjo, fiddle, concertina and ocarina and weaves folk tunes and songs into the service where appropriate. He is very interested in paganism, Buddhism, early Christianity, Universalism, and the interface between religion and science. He has represented inmates on death row and ridden a unicycle in the Christmas parade and played fiddle for the prime minister of Ireland. He is divorced and has two grown children and lives with his wife, pianist Jacqueline Schwab. |