A Faith for a Few? Minns Lecture: Number 5 by Mark W. Harris Given at the UUA General Assembly Ft. Lauderdale, Florida June 2008 Some years ago it was common for Unitarian Universalist congregations to print an item in their June newsletters. Written by my colleague Patrick O’Neill, it was called “Why Unitarian Universalist Churches …
From Consensus to Conflict, to Contact A Reappraisal of the Early History of American Unitarianism by J.D. Bowers Associate Professor of History Northern Illinois University First Annual Conrad Wright Endowed Lecture Unitarian Universalist Historical Society Cambridge First Unitarian Church Cambridge, Massachusett Good evening. I am deeply honored to be the invited speaker for this event, …
Hosea Ballou’s “Treatise” at 200 UUHS Lecture at General Assembly Fort Worth, Texas by Mark W. Harris, MinisterFirst Parish of Watertown, MasschusettsJune 2005 I hail from the hill country of north central Massachusetts and southwestern New Hampshire. I walked forest paths, grew up in a farm house built in 1770 situated on 65 acres of …
Southern Unitarian Universalists in the Civil Rights Era A Story of Small Acts of Great Courage by Rev. Gordon D. GibsonUnder auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Historical Societyat the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist AssociationJune 23, 2000, Nashville, Tennessee What was it like to be a Unitarian Universalist living in the Deep South in …
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Affinities and Animosities: Universalists and Unitarians in the Formative Period A Lecture, sponsored by theUnitarian Universalist Historical Society,at the Meadville/Lombard Theological SchoolChicagoOctober 1999 Ernest CassaraProfessor Emeritus of HistoryGeorge Mason University It is a penchant of historians to want to begin a story at the beginning. Were I to attempt such a feat in this lecture, …
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