From 1810 until 1933 all of the presidents of Harvard University were Unitarians—a span of 123 years. Who were these leaders of higher education in the United States of America? The following... More > online illustrated stories seek to answer that question. For delightfully longer biographies, see the classic Three Centuries of Harvard 1636-1936 by Samuel Eliot Morison, and Harvard Observed by John T. Bethell.< Less
Stephen Fritchman: The American Unitarians and Communism – A History with Documents.
Author Charles Eddis, who was there, tells in detail how the American Unitarians struggled to reconcile... More > hopes and good intentions with painful political realities emerging after World War II. The AUA (American Unitarian Association) awoke to find powerful pro-Soviet supporters — including Fritchman — in charge of their official magazine, their youth program, and their relief work in postwar Europe. The book’s broad historical canvas includes the FBI, the OSS (predecessor of the CIA), Soviet spies and agents, Stalin, and the US Communist Party set in the context of the ongoing evolution of American political radicalism.
"A very credible, accurate, well-balanced and humane study of the people who figured in this chapter in American Unitarian history, the issues at stake, the drama that unfolded." J. Ron Engel. retired professor, Meadville/Lombard Theological School, University of Chicago.< Less
Though preaching matters greatly to Unitarian Universalists, we have not seriously engaged the theology of preaching. This book corrects this error by explaining the major themes of current Unitarian... More > Universalist theology and applying these themes to the traditional questions of homiletics: the church, God, text, worship, and authority.
Major homiletic thinkers are analyzed from a UU perspective, and suggestions are made for how to put these theories of preaching to use in our context.
The author, the Rev. Dr. Matthew Johnson-Doyle, has 10 years of parish ministry experience. He received his D.Min. in Preaching from Iliff School of Theology in 2010.< Less