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Lynn Gordon Hughes has been a Unitarian Universalist since 1977. She has been active in religious education since 1981, serving as Director of Religious Education at First Universalist Church in Woonsocket, Rhode Island from 1988 to 1996. She was secretary of the Universalist Church of Rhode Island from 1995 to 1999.
Lynn studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971-74) and McGill University (1974-78). From 1978 to 1988 she worked in data processing in a variety of engineering, health care and education applications. Since 1988 she has worked for information systems at Brown University.
Although her education and employment were in engineering and information technology, Lynn has long been interested in historical research and writing—an interest that was stimulated by her work in religious education. She has edited and published new editions of Adin Ballou's Practical Christian Socialism and Christian Non-Resistance and written a children's book, To Live a Truer Life, on the utopian community at Hopedale. Along with her husband, Peter Hughes, she has been working for several years on an annotated edition of Ballou's autobiography. She is secretary of Friends of Adin Ballou, an organization dedicated to studying, honoring, and promoting the legacy of Ballou's life and work.
Lynn returned to school in 1998, hoping to correct the balance of an undergraduate education which in retrospect seemed too exclusively technical. She is currently a graduate student in history at Brown University.
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