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This Day in Unitarian Universalist History
1735 - John Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. He became a prominent lawyer and attacked the Stamp Act in 1765. He helped to draft the Declaration of Independence. Adams also drafted the Massachusetts Constitution. He was vice president under George Washington and succeeded him as president. He was a member of First Parish (Unitarian) in Quincy, Massachusetts, where he is buried with his wife, son, and daughter-in-law, under the care of the National Park Service. Adams died at home on July 4, 1826, only a few hours after the death of Thomas Jefferson.
Reprinted with the permission of Skinner House Books. This Day in Unitarian Universalist History by Frank Schulman is available at (800) 215-9076 or www.uua.org/bookstore.
Bibliotherapy: Which Books Do Your Prescribe for which Human Condition?
The notion that books can save lives and heal souls is not new. what a delight to learn that “bibliotherapy,” the psychological benefit that can be derived from reading specific material, is known and recognized phenomenon. The word itself was ...
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A History of Death: Unitarian Universalist Style
The earliest Anglo-American burials in Puritan North America took place in graveyards, where grave markers often included the motif of a skull, or death head, sometimes with or without wings. These markers, as well as the burial grounds themselves, were ...
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