by Dr. Jason Zuidema, NAMMA William Armstrong brings together this great collection of stories about the well-known 19th century seafarers’ minister in Boston, Rev. Edward Thompson Taylor. Armstrong is a retired minister of the United Church of Christ, having degrees from Union Theological Seminary and The Lutheran Theological Seminary. He has authored a number of…
Remembering Chaplain Wally Ceadarleaf
Image: (Paul Connell/Globe Staff/File 1979) From The Globe, February 7, 2010. The Rev. Wallace E. Cedarleaf retired as Boston Harbor chaplain 17 years ago, but he is vividly recalled along the waterfront and among the thousands of seamen of foreign vessels that docked here during his 25-year tenure. “Wally was bigger-than-life. Everyone who knew him…