First is a collection of essays by specialists in church history offering topics on different aspects of congregational history writing and archiving. The topics covered here by no means tell you the whole story of archiving and history creating: many more essays await future writing (and funding). Still, we hope the essays included here are… Read More »
Here we offer online tips and tools in two formats: written essays to help you create your congregational histories, and links to a variety of other websites, many from other denominations, offering useful perspective on our work of Unitarian Universalist history-making and archiving. links. Essays Links to Resources Essays First is a collection of essays… Read More »
Introducing “Reckoning International U/UU Histories” The Legacy of the Polish Brethren A Note from your Editor about our Upcoming Journal DUUB 2020-2021 Prize Competition Polish Brethren Contest Announcement President’s Message Announcing the Conrad Wright Lecturer 2021 Become a Member of UUHHS Today Introducing “Reckoning International U/UU Histories” Claudia Elferdink, Reckoning U/UU Project Convener “Reckoning International… Read More »
What’s in this Issue 2020 Conrad Wright Lecture Report Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography Announces 2021 Prizes News from the James Luther Adams Foundation Calling All Congregational Historians! President’s Message Unexamined History Project Changes the Narrative Become a Member of UUHHS Today 2020 Conrad Wright Lecture Report Dr. Nicole C. Kirk, Vice President of… Read More »
What’s in this Issue? The Journal is On its Way From the President of UUHHS News from the Dictionary of Unitarian Universalist Biographies UUHHS Annual Membership Meeting Become a Member of UUHHS Today Conrad Wright Lecture at General Assembly The Journal is On Its Way News from Our Journal Editor, Kathleen Parker The significance of… Read More »
$500 to be awarded in 2020 This prize will be awarded for the best research essay on Unitarian Universalist history. Essays should be approximately 15-25 pages in length, and they must draw on primary sources and be organized around a clear thesis. They should use rigorous scholarship in support of the growing edges of Unitarian… Read More »
How to Change the World: Self and Society in American Transcendentalism Philip F. Gura University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In the months since publishing my recent work on Transcendentalism, I have had the pleasure of speaking on the topic at several venues in some way or other associated with my topic, most memorably… Read More »
Minns Lecture: Number 5 “A Faith for a Few?” 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… Read More »
Hosea Ballou’s “Treatise” at 200 UUHS Lecture at General Assembly Fort Worth, Texas by Mark W. Harris, Minister First Parish of Watertown, Masschusetts June 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… Read More »
The Outcome of This Faith: How Universalism Changed History In the Person of Mary Ashton Livermore Daniel S. O Connell Meadville Lombard Theological School This faith in Universalism, during the twenty-five years that I have believed it, has grown upon me, until today it is the central thing in me. I do not now, and… Read More »