Unitarian minister and blogger Andrew Brown today posted a scanned PDF of the only in-depth biography of Universalist pioneer George de Benneville. I feel a bit bad because I’ve owned a copy for years — he paid dearly for his — and I never put it up.
He alludes to the problem of copyright — it [...]
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“Life of de Benneville” for download
If faith formation shows where we’re going, where have we been?
How did I miss this organization all this time?
Unitarian Universalist Religious Education History Group
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Destination Moon
Having just turned forty, I tend to mark my life in terms of distance from events of the summer of 1969. And forty years ago today the first human beings stepped upon the Moon: the only place apart from our own home-world where we have set foot.
I was very young when humanity reached the Moon, [...]
“The Duties of Hard Times”
As a way of testing my PDF scanning workflow, I wanted to publish a document that was plainly in the public domain and potentially interesting to my readership.
I had on hand a sermon by the Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, the minister of the (Unitarian) First Church of Boston, preached there April 23, 1837, entitled “The Duties [...]
“Freedom in Messiah”
I found (refound?) an independent universalist theological site. It includes a number of classic texts that generations have known and loved, and some original articles by the site’s owner, Tony Pirog.
http://www.freedominmessiah.com/
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Book on the Japanese Universalists
The Universalist Japanese mission is one of those episodes in denominational history that perplexes those who might be interested in it. It flourished through the twenties, barely survived the War (I gather) but a single congregation of it — the Doojin Christian Church, Tokyo (no Web site) — remains today.
There’s little one can read [...]
“A History of Universalism in North Carolina”
Today I received an unexpected parcel from Peggy Ward Rawheiser, a well-known figure in heritage Universalist circles: her new revision of the classic A History of Universalism in North Carolina. I’m quite pleased to receive it. (Thank you.)
At first I thought I would review it in full, but since it functions more like a sourcebook [...]
Boston Library stereographs on Flickr
Ah, Flickr, the photo sharing service has been drawing some significant image collections and I just saw some stereograph from postbellum Boston, from the collection of the Boston Library. Might I recommend the slideshow? (Go fast; the stereographs are sorted by topic so you’re bound to get a whole bunch of very similar images.)
The churches [...]
Long before the blog
Chris Walton (Philocrites) muses about technology and his earliest writings via Internet, specifically on the Usenet group, soc.religion.unitarian-univ.
Ah! I wrote there too, in those heady days of the mid- to late-1990s. I wonder if I was edgier then?
If you care to see what I wrote . . .
Here are archived copies of two (1, 2) [...]
The Universalist church year, 100 years on
I’ve listed below the fold seven annual observances recommended by the Universalist General Convention; I’ve pulled this list from the 1907 Universalist Register. Why?
I’ll be writing about the use of a church year and lectionary
the subject of Association Sunday (October 14) is live in the Unitarian Universalist Association
the plans for All Souls Day [...]
