The Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason will lead the service at Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, Aug. 18. David Shorey will serve as organist. Her sermon is titled “Such Serious Joy." The service begins at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome!  

Since 2022, Rev. Mason has served as Community Minister for Spiritual Direction at the Arlington Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. Over the years, she has occupied a host of roles in higher education, counseling centers, and faith communities in both New York and New England. She holds degrees from Harvard College, Union Theological Seminary, and Columbia University, where she later taught graduate students at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute. She also served as Pastoral Counselor at Union from 2011 to 2013.

Her varied and extensive ministries have all been devoted to integrating spiritual wisdom with psychological insight in the service of healing individuals, helping communities, and fostering human flourishing. Rev. Mason currently trains and mentors students in the Apprenticeship Program at the Phoenix Center for Spiritual Direction. In addition to being an experienced educator, minister, psychotherapist, and Spiritual Director, she is now the Convener and Co-Chair of the Spirituality & Flourishing Interest Group at the interdisciplinary Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University.

Rev. Mason has presented and lectured locally, nationally, and internationally, most recently at the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago. An anthologized essayist who had published pieces in the the academic and popular press, she regularly writes books reviews for Presence, the quarterly journal of Spiritual Directors International. For more than a decade now, she has blogged at TheReverendDr.com, a site devoted to the topic of “What Heals Us in Our Souls.”

She is married to Benjamin Daniel Unger, a physician at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts. The couple lives right outside Boston in a colonial-style house with two fine felines and a tank full of tropical fish. In recent years, they have enjoyed vacationing at Sprucewold in Boothbay Harbor with dear friends.