Wednesday, January 19, 2005
"DEEDS NOT CREEDS"
That is the motto of Rev. Rachel G. Tedesco, pastor of First Parish Church in Taunton, according to The Enterprise at South of Boston.
Rev. Tedesco has a zeal for social justice. She grew up in a Jewish family, received a degree in political science from Wellesley College, and met her husband David on a grape picket line. She looks up to Howard Zinn, a history professor of Boston University, Richard Leonard, a Unitarian-Universalist minister and leader in the civil rights movement, and feminists Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan.
Her master's degree in social work came from Wayne State University, and her master's in divinity from Andover Newton Theological School. She was ordained a Unitarian-Universalist minister at a Unity Church where she was a member for 10 years.
Rev. Tedesco is compassionate and believes in accepting people and looking for the best in them. As an example of what she believes, on the day the state began allowing gay marriages last year, Rev. Tedesco put up a sign outside First Parish Church welcoming same-sex couples to get married in Taunton's historic place of worship.
"Love Makes A Family", the sign read. Rev. Rachel G. Tedesco practices what she preaches.
