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Our Minister
 Our minister is the Rev. Richard M. Stower. He was born in New York City in 1946, raised in a Jewish (Reform) family and spent much of his childhood in New Rochelle, NY. He graduated from George Washington University in 1968 where he majored in history. After teaching a year in the South Bronx, he returned to George Washington University and received a Master of Arts degree in American and Modern European History.
In the 1960s he was active in both the civil rights and the anti-Vietnam war movements. In high school he served on the Youth Taskforce on the National Urban League. In 1990, he escorted two survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on a speaking tour of Massachusetts and New Hampshire high schools.
Prior to entering the ministry, Rev. Stower worked for the United States Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) for fifteen years in the Food Stamp Program. He has served as president of the local chapters of the American Federation of Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union in the Northeast Regional Office of FNS.
In 1986 he entered Harvard Divinity School and received his M. Div degree in 1990. He was ordained in his home church, First Parish in Concord, MA and has served as minister of the Kearsarge Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in New Hampshire and the Keene (NH) Unitarian Universalist Church. He has served on the board of directors of the Ballou Channing District of the Unitarian Universalist Association and as President of the Ballou Channing Chapter of the UU Ministers Association. He also served on the board of directors of the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry (Boston) from 1994-2008. In 2001, he was appointed by the town selectmen to serve on the Scituate No Place for Hate Committee. Recently, Rev. Stower served as President of the Scituate Clergy Association.
Rev. Stower is married to Nancy Richards-Stower, a civil rights and employment law attorney. They have an adult son, Jonathan, who lives in Concord, MA.
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