Baskette, Molly Phinney

Molly Phinney Baskette is the lead pastor of the quirky, lovable, and truth-telling community of First Church Somerville UCC in metro Boston, and a senior consultant for the Center for Progressive Renewal. She is a regular contributor to the United Church of Christ's Daily Devotionals, and the author of Real Good Church: How Our Church Came Back from the Dead, and Yours Can, Too, and two grief books for children. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with her husband and two children, where she loves to cook from the garden, read in the hammock, and train for the cuddling Olympics.