Edwin C Lynn
Life Lessons from the Sea
Edwin Lynn is the Minister Emeritus for the
Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church in Danvers, Massachusetts where
he served for 33 years. He also taught ministerial polity and
practices at Harvard Divity School as a visiting lecturer and
denominational counsellor after receiving the Merrill Fellowship there.
After an auspicious beginning as "Most Likely to Succeed" in his
Manchester, Connecticut grade school, he earned the more dubious
distinction at high school graduation of "Most Changed Since Freshman
Year".
He graduated first in his class at the Syracuse University School of
Architecture, but found that he enjoyed reading and writing more than he
did contruction of buildings. He became an educator with the Great
Books Foundation which sponsors adult and children's discussion groups.
This new path of examining and sharing perspectives on life led him to
enroll in the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley,
California.
His two careers in architecture and clergy melded into a love for church
architecture which manifested itself in his first book "Tired Dragons"
as well as a consultancy to churches helping with their building issues.
His book "Shorlines" explores the lessons that shifting sand dunes,
breaking waves, and mysterious cormorants lend to our lives.
In retirement, he and his wife Marjorie spend a great deal of time at
the beach and enjoying the coastal amenities of Ipswich and the North
Shore of Massachusetts that has inspired him all his life.
