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 [...]
There’s been a dust-up in North Carolina about Cecil Bothwell, a newly elected member of the Asheville city council, who is both an atheist or post-theist and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church there. Because the North Carolina constitution (VI.8) disqualifies as office holders “any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God.”
Dan [...]
I can’t find any classic Unitarian or Universalist texts in Esperanto. Not even Channing’s Baltimore Sermon (or the like) in some pre-WWI source, and Google’s not much help.
Anyone know of something?
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The New York Times ran a story — on June 15, 1874 — about the history of Universalism in that city, which can be read as a PDF in the newspaper’s archives. Interesting stuff, including the intersection of radical Universalist minister Abner Kneeland with Tammany Hall — the building, at least. Indeed, in the [...]
Ann Lee Bressler’s Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880 is one of the finest works on the subjects I know. This thought, from page 42, is vital to our understanding of the movement — as a social movement — in conjunction with Unitarianism.
The rise of restorationism during the second quarter of the [nineteenth] century helped ensure [...]
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 BoingBoing-noted launch of a Google image search feature makes finding images sorted by Create Commons license much easier.
Take, for example this search for images labled unitarian or universalist that are available for reuse and modification, but not in commercial applications.
Useful, too: found this nineteenth-century picture of old First Universalist, Minneapolis, which looks like the [...]
Cranky Cindy wrote about mountaintop coal mining, and the environmental disaster is causes.
Universalist fun fact: the much-reported town deluged by coal ash, Harriman, Tennessee, was the site of the church extension project of the Young People’s Christian Union, a predecessor to Unitarian Universalist young adult ministries.
Not-so-fun fact: coal is not clean. It pollutes the air, [...]
Steven Rowe has been finding Southern historically-Universalist churches on Google Street View — who knew they penetrated so much of rural America? — and has been posting these localized view on his blog A Southern “Universalist Church” History starting with Clayton Memorial Church, Newberry, S.C. (I used to preach there regularly.)
Takes me back. Thanks.
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Steve Caldwell (Liberal Faith Development) put the proposed bylaws amendment — a.k.a. the new Principles and Purposes — at his site. I don’t think they’re great and I don’t think they’re horrible, and it much better than the earlier draft. I know the revision study was long-mandated, but this seems to be an invented need, [...]
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