Our Minister - Steve Edington
Steve Edington has been the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua since 1988. Prior to coming to Nashua he served UU congregations in Rockland, Maine and Stony Brook, New York. Steve grew up as a Baptist in southern West Virginia where he attended Marshall University in Huntington in the mid-1960s. He is a 1971 graduate of the Colgate Rochester Divinity School of Rochester, New York, and was originally ordained to the American Baptist ministry. After serving as a campus minister at DePauw University and then at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Steve became a Unitarian Universalist and was granted Fellowship in the UU ministry in 1978. In addition to his congregational ministries, Steve has held various positions of leadership in the Northeast, Metro New York, and New Hampshire/Vermont Districts.
Steve's avocation is reading, writing, and doing research on the literature and personalities of the "beat generation" of American writers. He serves on the "Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!" Committee of Lowell, Massachusetts which puts on an annual Jack Kerouac festival or celebration in that city each October, and is the author of Kerouac's Nashua Connection.
Steve has been married to Michele Scovotti Edington of Yonkers, New York since 1978. He and Michele have one son, Gordon Michael, who was born in 1984.
