Rev. Margaret A. Beckman is retired from the UU Congregation of Castine, Maine. She was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. Margaret attended McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago and in 1983 completed a Master of Arts in Theological Studies with an emphasis in ethics and Old Testament. In 1989 she and her spouse, Christy Stout, moved to Maine. For the next eighteen years, she worked for a small not-for-profit job training and career development company. She then returned to seminary where she earned a Master of Divinity degree in 2003 from Bangor Theological Seminary. Ordained by the Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor in May of 2003, and receiving UUA fellowship the same month, Margaret began her UU ministry. She served 14 years as a hospice chaplain; 12 years as the part-time minister of the First Universalist Church of Pittsfield, Maine; and 7 years with the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Castine; and retired from full-time parish ministry in July 2023.