We have begun adding biographies to our collection that focus on the ministry, struggles and enduring convictions of Unitarian Civil War Chaplains. We begin with three This work comes to us from John McConnell, third year graduate student in Unitarian Universalist History at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio, where his research explores Unitarian and Universalist chaplains who served the Union during the Civil War.…

Part One: Our Song Leading Roots

Part Two:  What to Sing–Psalms vs. Blasphemy and a Question of Content

Part Three: How to Sing: Chants vs. Hymns and a Question of Form

Part Four: Who Should Sing–Performance versus Participation

Part Five: With What to Sing?…

Part One: Our Song Leading Roots

Part Two:  What to Sing–Psalms vs. Blasphemy and a Question of Content

Part Three: How to Sing: Chants vs. Hymns and a Question of Form

Part Four: Who Should Sing–Performance versus Participation

Part Five: With What to Sing?…

Unitarian authors are disproportionately represented in the tradition of gothic literature.   This anthology includes some of the best of work of those authors, alongside a critical introduction explaining their links to Unitarian Theology.  Some might be surprised to learn that Unitarianism, closely associated with the Enlightenment and its positive valuation of reason and human nature, also has such a large claim to the dark, clammy dungeons of the gothic. …

This eight minute video highlights the experiences of Unitarian and Universalist congregations during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. Please share with attribution as you like–personally, or as a resource for congregational use in worship, education program, or otherwise.

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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 coined by the Unitarian minister Samuel McCord Crothers in 1916, in an article that he wrote for the Atlantic.…

Love is the doctrine of this church.  So says the covenant of 1933 written by the Universalist minister L. Griswold Williams.  Rev. Williams rode a circuit ministry around Pennsylvania and Ohio before settling into the ministry of the All Souls Universalist Church in Marion, Ohio.…

Add a side bar to your website or blog that changes daily, offering an important date in Unitarian Universalist history and related graphic, exactly like that on the front page of our Harvard Square Library site.

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