Happy birthday to Dana McLean Greeley, first president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. He established the precedent of a strong president deeply engaged in social justice. http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/dana-mclean-greeley/ …
Unitarian Universalist minister Gregory W. McGonigle is the new university chaplain at Emory University. https://news.emory.edu/stories/2019/07/er_university_chaplain_mcgonigle/campus.html?cid=db …
Thirty five years ago today – 1984 - the Unitarian Universalist Association passed the Gay and Lesbian Services of Union Resolution, affirming the conducting of services of union by UU ministers, and asking UUA faith communities to support these unions. http://www.uua.org/statements/gay-and-lesbian-services-union …
Passed on the first day of the first General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association, Washington, DC, May 24, 1962. #uuaga @UUApic.twitter.com/UhAZeWByKc
Last night my daughter Rev. Elizabeth Carrier-Ladd was welcomed into preliminary ministerial fellowship with the Unitarian Universalist Association. @UUA #UUAGApic.twitter.com/p1qc7PSPXB
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” Happy birthday to author and Unitarian Universalist minister Robert Fulghum, born today in 1937. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fulghum …
The Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation was formed on this day in 1963, consolidating the Association of Universalist Women, established in 1869, and the Alliance of Unitarian Women, established in 1880.
On MLK Jr's birthday, here is his Ware Lecture in 1966, which he begins by describing his own connections to Unitarian Universalism and appreciation for Unitarian Universalist participation in the civil rights movement. https://www.uua.org/ga/past/1966/ware …
First Universalist Society founded 1835; merged with Unitarian Church of Barnstable 1967. Most famous ministers who served it as students were Jack Mendelsohn and Arnold Westwood.
Adin Ballou, a minister in both the Unitarian and Universalist fellowships, was ordained on this day in 1823. He was the founder of the utopian community in Hopedale, MA. http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/adin-ballou-1803-1890/ …
Thomas Starr King was installed over the Hollis Street Church on this day in 1848. He was a Universalist minister accepting a call to a Unitarian church, with the prominent ministers of each denomination participating. http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/thomas-starr-king-2/ …
The first African American minister to receive fellowship in either the Unitarian or Universalist denominations was John Bird Wilkins, granted fellowship in 1888. http://uudb.org/articles/johnbirdwilkins.html …
Herman Bisbee, the only American Universalist minister to have been found guilty of heresy, was born on this day in 1833. After losing his Universalist fellowship, he became a Unitarian. http://uudb.org/articles/hermanbisbee.html … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U2QlTHfgXs …
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