The Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason will lead the last service of the 2026 summer season at Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, Aug. 30. Her sermon is titled “In the City of Angels.” Margaret Mceldowney will serve as organist. The service is at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome!      

Rev. Mason is currently an affiliated minister at the Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation in White Plains, New York, where she has also served as worship coordination minister. 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 Theological 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 instructs 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 has been the convener and co-chair of the Spirituality & Flourishing group at the interdisciplinary Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University since 2022. 

Rev. Mason has presented and lectured locally, nationally, and internationally, including at the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago. An anthologized essayist who had published pieces in the academic and popular press, she regularly writes book 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 and her husband Benjamin Daniel Unger now live in Bronxville, New York, but have enjoyed vacationing at Sprucewold in Boothbay Harbor with dear friends for the past several years. They especially enjoy visiting Maine in late August and lingering until Labor Day.