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Here we share 40 more Universalist Biographies by Mark Harris. This project is made possible in part by the Alice and Frank Schulman Fund of the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Spinney Mudge Grants Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn, Massachusetts.

The May 2010 volume of the occasional online Harvard Square Library Review contains a new article – Community Ministry and the Meadville Lombard Theological Model

The substance of the following pages was given in the form of an address, at the service of dedication of a tablet in memory of Mr. Crothers, in Unity Church, St. Paul, Minnesota, Sunday, December 8, 1929.

This book brings to life a remarkable man and a remarkable era. Hosea Ballou - rebel preacher, self-taught theologian - was one of the most influential religious figures of nineteenth-century America.

This Transcendentalist manifesto was written to the Boston congregation just before the death of the exhausted and ill Unitarian social reformer.

It is widely appreciated that Alan Paton, the writer who was born in South Africa, was the founder and president of the South African Liberal Party (1953-68) which opposed apartheid and was banned by the racist government.

Author Von Ogden Vogt (1879-1964) was a master liturgist who excelled at celebrating Life in the liberal religious tradition while serving as the minister of the First Unitarian Church of Chicago. Now available free online is Vogt’s book, Art and Religion.

This is a book of songs of life. They are religious without being sectarian: they sing the realities of man’s experience and vitalizing purpose. They express the feeling of at-homeness in the world and the human values of truth, beauty and goodnes

This unique contribution to the Unitarian Universalist history chronicles the remarkable work of lay and ordained UU ministers in areas of social justice, chaplaincy, authorship and the arts, and educational and institutional leadership. This is ministry beyond the churches - it is community ministry.

In 1875 F.O. Vaille and H.A. Clark collected and published The Harvard Book, a two volume series of historical, biographical, and descriptive sketches profusely illustrated with 75 fine heliotype plates and many wood engravings. These huge leather bond, gold embossed two volumes were a gift from the late Edith Maream Stebbins, a member of the First Unitarian Universalist Parish in Milton, Massachusetts. It has an abundance of historic visual art now shared worldwide online.

That is the title of the gathering of three pivotal addresses introduced online by Unitarian historian Conrad Wright: Unitarian Christianity by William Ellery Channing, The Divinity School Address by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and The Transient and Permanent in Christianity by Theodore Parker.

These three addresses are critical for understanding Unitarianism in America. Our harvardsquarelibrary.org publishes free online Dr. Wright's introduction to all three, plus a concise summary of Channing's historic address.

Ralph Waldo Emerson surrendered his prized Boston pastorate and quietly moved to Concord. but his open anti-supernaturalism persisted in the pulpit work of Theodore Parker, whose South Boston ordination sermon in 1841 on The Transient and Permanent in Christianity was just the start of his humanizing of Jesus.

Internationally known as an astronomer-scholar, Harlow Shapley asserts that man is not the center of the universe, nor, in all likelihood, is man alone. Dr. Shapley�s ingenious speculations about the cosmos blend with the imaginative color illustrations of Richard C. Bartlett to produce the �cosmic poetry� of Of Star and Men. Of Stars and Men is now available here online for download by chapter.

When Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838, the address was condemned by Professor Andrews Norton as "The Latest form of Infidielity." One hundred years later, this intensely controversial address at the beginning of the Transcendentalist movement in American religion and literature was celebrated by the American Unitarian Association in a Ware Lecture at its annual meeting addressed by Dr. John Haynes Holmes of the Community Church of New York.

The original four volumes of Heralds of a Liberal Faith by Samuel Atkins Eliot, the first President of the American Unitarian Association, were accompanied by an examination of virtually all of the biographical compilations concerning Unitarian ministers since William B. Sprague’s epic Annuals of the Unitarian Pulpit, which interpreted these ministries in America through 1855.

The Emerson that emerges from these pages is a flesh and blood Emerson, a man of strong convictions and wide associations, one who experienced personal losses as well as public acclaim, a deeply spiritual person who was also a prominent citizen, rooted in his community and actively engaged in the issues of his time.

The booklets in this series were originally written as scientific materials for use in religious education. Other educators and many parents, however, will find much of value in their thoughtful and unusual approach designed to interest children in the everyday wonders of nature and science

John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan B. Anthony, William Ellery Channing, Margaret Fuller, Joseph Priestley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Charles W. Eliot are among the more than 100 Unitarians shown here who contributed to the creative structure of American civilization, government, business, education, literature, human liberation, religion, and science.

Celebrate May Sarton, Frank Lloyd Wright, Adlai Stevenson, Bé,la Bartó,k, Margaret Laurence, Roger Baldwin, Pete Seeger, Linus Pauling, Albert Schweitzer�these figures are among the 150 notable Unitarians shown here who have made significant contributions to life.

In addition to the 1740-1900 Biographies, it is a joy to add the following portraits written by Mark W. Harris, Minister of the historic First Parish in Watertown, Massachusetts. He is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Unitarian Universalism (scarecrow press, inc, Lanham, Maryland 20706)

Towards the end of the remarkable era led by President Charles W. Eliot, Unitarian, the Harvard Business School was founded. At its centennial celebration, 1908-2008, President Drew Faust spoke these words concerning the future.

In James Luther Adams one finds the curious, and sometimes contradictory, combination of midieval saint, Renaissance humanist, Marxist critic, Enlightenment encyclopedist, sectarian enthusiast, and bourgeis compulsive. Yet he is, in many ways, a prototypical modern man, attempting to find, confess, and, where necessary, carve out a sense of meaning large enough to preserve us from the perennial idolatries and aimlessness that flesh is heir to.

In 2007 we at Community celebrated the centennial of John Haynes Holmes’ arrival in New York to serve The Church of the Messiah (which was how the 2nd Congregational Unitarian Church had been known since 1839). That year-long series of special worship services, guest speakers, forums, and other events recognized Holmes’ special relationship with Mohandas Gandhi, which was one among many of his contributions as a minister, spiritual leader, and prophetic activist.

Jack Mendelsohn's liberal ministry of sixty-two years continues to express his passion for Beacon Press Books. As author as well as preacher and prophet, he is esteemed by unitarian Universalists as well as a lively circle of action oriented citizens. Here now he celebrates Beacon Press books, published by the Unitarian Universalist Association�a precious shocase of real religion expressed as art, sex, education, literature, spirituality, and democracy

From Kirkland to Lowell, Harvard University presidents for 123 years, 1810-1933, were Unitarian. An illustrated story.

When the publishing house of an institution of higher education focused on science and technology also grows to excel in publishing highly esteemed books&mdash,in fields such as the visual arts, economics, law, linguistics, foreign affairs, public communication, education, and government&mdash,that is a remarkable achievement made by the MIT Press. One of the early pioneers of this achievement was James Killian (1904-1988), the 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who also served as the Moderator of the American Association, the first Presidential Advisor on Science and Technology (serving Dwight Eisenhower), as well as Chairman of the Carnegie Commission which established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the United States. MIT Press Books.

During the years 1970 to 1990, when I was the director of the Cambridge Forum of the First Parish in Cambridge, I was privileged to moderate many programs featuring such eminent women and men as those listed here.

More biographies of eminent women and men, all featured on the Cambridge Forum listed here.

The question addressed in this book, Is God Necessary? , is not new but is of perennial importance. What is new is that a great new discovery answers this question decisively in the twenty-first century as Darwin�s theory of evolution did in the nineteenth century.

When the first printing press entered America in 1638, it was the property of Harvard College. We now celebrate online our first series of Harvard University Press books. These are in the field of Politics and Law and also contain, if you click, practical related information from us as an Amazon Affiliate.

America's first poet, Anne Bradstreet, once lived in Cambridge. Here are some brief biographies and selected poems of poets since Bradstreet.

First published in New England Magazine in 1900, Unitarianism in America is an important milestone in Unitarian history. It is reproduced here exactly as it appeared in it's original form