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Reverend Olson comes to
Meriden from his most recent post as Associate
Dean of Religious Life for Marsh Chapel at Boston University,
where he was also a University Chaplain. While in his new pastorship
in Meriden,
he will also continue to teach at the Boston University School of Theology.
Reverend Olson
previously served as Pastor of Greater Hartford United Church of Christ in Hartford, Vermont, and
as Minister of Music and Worship at Zion
Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Rev.
Olson is a graduate of Maine Maritime Academy,
and earned a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Administration from the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst.
He earned a Master of Divinity degree from United Theological Seminary of the
Twin Cities, and a Master of Sacred
Theology from Boston University School of Theology, where he is currently
completing a Doctor of Ministry degree. Rev. Olson has also been a visiting
scholar at Regent's Park College, Oxford
University, England.
Rev.
Olson resides in Meriden
with his husband, the Rev. Darrick Jackson, a
Unitarian-Universalist minister; their two cats, and a lot of books.
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