Scotty McLennan

Dean for Religious Life

Scotty McLennan's duties as Dean for Religious Life include providing spiritual, moral, and ethical leadership for the university; teaching, encouraging a wide spectrum of religious traditions on campus; serving as the minister of Memorial Church; and engaging in public service. He holds M.Div. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University, and since 1975 has been a Unitarian Universalist minister and an attorney. Dean McLennan is the author of Jesus Was a Liberal: Reclaiming Christianity for All (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning (HarperSanFrancisco, 1999). Full bio