Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Senior Lecturer, details Boston’s history with climate activism, and how religion, ancestry, and spirituality tie in.
The Rev. J Sylvan, MDiv '20, a bisexual and nonbinary leader who was approved last week as the new senior minister at the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City by 97 percent of the congregation, sees the church’s mission as welcoming those who are sometimes on society’s margins — including LGBTQ believers.
A report about the First Church of Roxbury, released Monday, brings new historical perspective about the presence of people of color and enslaved people in colonial Massachusetts. The report largely relied on the First Church of Roxbury records, which are currently located in the Harvard Divinity School library.
Salt Lake City’s First Unitarian Church is turning to the Rev. Ian White Maher, MDiv ’04, a contemplative Harvard Divinity School-educated minister and educator to help chart its future.
The Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray felt called to Arizona at a time when the state was ground zero for the controversy on immigration that today dominates the headlines.... Read more about A Powerful Form of Love
Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1819, Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing spoke at a Baltimore church and delivered what would be described nearly two centuries later as probably the most important Unitarian sermon ever preached anywhere.... Read more about Newly Digitized: The Papers of William Ellery Channing
Some people think that politics and art don’t mix. Impose a political message, they say, and art becomes contrived and manipulative. Bring too much art to politics and it becomes unserious and impractical.