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The Crucifixion: A Good Friday Address by James Luther Adams

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Emily Mace

The James Luther Adams Papers

The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 48, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1993

Part 17: The Crucifixion

A Good Friday Address by James Luther Adams

“I cannot call him to mind,” said Pontius Pilate. The crucifixion of Jesus, apparently, was only a part of one uneventful day’s work for the Roman.…

Crosses: A Maundy Thursday Address

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Emily Mace

The James Luther Adams Papers

The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 48, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1993

Part 16: Crosses

A Maundy Thursday Address Preceding A Communion Service

D. H. Lawrence tells us that on a walking tour which he made through the Austrian Tyrol, he saw little crucifixes dotting the landscape in that part of the world.…

Why Sing?

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Emily Mace

The James Luther Adams Papers

The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 48, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1993

Part 15: Why Sing?

The Spanish philosopher, Ortega y Gasset, captures a memory of his childhood: a triumphant act that the circus clowns of his youth used to perform.…

Archibald Thompson Davison

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Emily Mace

The James Luther Adams Papers

The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 48, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1993

Part 14: Archibald Thompson Davison

For a generation Archibald Davison was professor of music as well as organist and choirmaster at Harvard University; besides this, he was the conductor, and indeed the creator, of the Harvard Glee Club as it has become known.

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Art, Religion, and Utopia

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Emily Mace

The James Luther Adams Papers

The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 48, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1993

Part 13: Art, Religion, and Utopia

The Peaceable Kingdom, the choral work by Randall Thompson, was dedicated to the late G. Wallace Woodworth and to the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society.

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Music: The Language of Hope

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Emily Mace

The James Luther Adams Papers

The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 48, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1993

Part 12: Music: The Language of Hope

The talk about music can be a futile effort, especially for me. I confess that when I was taking lessons on the violin some years ago, I went to my teacher’s home for the weekly lesson, and I played for him a movement from a Handel violin sonata.…

A Sense of a Cosmic Reality

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Emily Mace

The James Luther Adams Papers

The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 48, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1993

Part 11: A Sense of a Cosmic Reality

One of the strangest aspects of human nature is the puzzling way in which friendship often expresses itself.…

Originality

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Emily Mace

The James Luther Adams Papers

The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 48, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1993

Part 10: Originality

The drifting of the individual with the tide of the group has always been accompanied by the struggle of each against all. Human nature has followed and revolted against conventions ever since people became gregarious.…

In the Fullness of Time

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Emily Mace

The James Luther Adams Papers

The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 48, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1993

Part 9: In the Fullness of Time

The story is told of a New England town which had grown to such an extent that the old parish church, formerly on the Common, now found itself at the intersection of the main streets of a a thriving little city.

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By Their Groups Shall Ye Know Them

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Emily Mace

The James Luther Adams Papers

The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 48, nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 1993

Part 8: By their Groups Ye Shall Know Them

Several years before the Nazis came to power in Germany I, as a student, was standing on the street in the city of Nuremberg watching a parade.…