The Rev. Rob Hardies

Unitarian Universalist Chaplain
Lead Minister, First Parish in Cambridge
The Rev. Robert Hardies

Email: rhardies@firstparishcambridge.org
Address: 3 Church Street, Cambridge, MA
Website: www.firstparishcambridge.org/

Rev. Rob Hardies is Lead Minister of First Parish in Cambridge and the Unitarian Universalist Chaplain at Harvard University. Rob is an experienced preacher, teacher, counselor and activist. From 2001 to 2020, he was Senior Minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC, a large, dynamic multiracial congregation. During his ministry at All Souls, Rob helped found and lead award-winning justice organizations that advocated for marriage equality and for voting rights. Before entering the ministry, Rob worked for Habitat for Humanity, and served as a human rights worker with Indigenous communities in Guatemala. A student of Emerson, Thoreau and the New England Transcendentalists, Rob often encounters the sacred in nature, and in his spare time enjoys leading walking pilgrimages along the Camino de Santiago.