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PREACHING
Sunday, July 5
11:00 AM

Rev. Dr. Richard Spalding

Retired Chaplain, Williams College

Sermon: “An Experiment”

Rick Spalding is a (retired) pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA),  He studied at Yale Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary (NYC) and Hartford Seminary – and served congregations in Albany, New York City, and Boston before being called into the heart of his career as Chaplain at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.  For almost two decades at Williams, in addition to the familiar pastoral tasks of chaplaincy, Rick worked to expand the college’s embrace of religious pluralism, helped to redesign first-year orientation, and led a January-term immersion for students in Nicaragua.  After Williams, he served as Interim Senior Minister at the 1^st Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, MI and at Old South Church in Boston.  Fully retired at last, he lives in a very old house in Ipswich, MA with his husband (of 53 years) and a cat named Steinway.