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.”
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Unitarianism or Universalism in Esperanto?
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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Pocket history about “Dr. Chapin’s Church”
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 [...]
An academic’s look at Universalism’s reputation as second-rate Unitarianism
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 [...]
Easier to find images for reuse
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 [...]
Use your voice, less electricity to save mountains
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, [...]
Dubious Murray reference in proposed Priniciples and Purposes
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, [...]
On this day in 1788: Murray ordained
Or ordained for the second time, but as so much with early Universalism, the first was irregular enough to be legally suspect.
John Murray was the minister of the Independent Christian Church, Gloucester, Massachusetts; the record of the ordination follows after the jump, from Universalism in Gloucester, Mass. (1892, 191 ff.) A polity note: [...]
“Manuals of Faith and Duty”
A small reference tool. Links to Google Books for a charming little set of “golden age of Universalism” doctrinal pocket-books. This is copied from the book notice for #10, so the missing #7 shows they weren’t printed in order. [Later. Found #7.]
Manuals of Faith and Duty
Edited by Rev. J. S. Cantwell, D.D.
A series of short [...]
James Relly’s book, “Union”
While I’m cleaning out and finding useful files, I thought I would re-share the PDF book I made of James Relly’s 1759 “Union: or, a Treatise of the Consanguinity and Affinity between Christ and his Church.”
I have made this available at my (somewhat dormant) UniversalistChurch.net site, so I think this is the first time I’ve [...]
