Our History

Focus of this short course is on three individuals:

1)       Rev. William Ellery Channing (1780-1842), minister, defined “Unitarian

Christianity”

http://www25-temp.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/williamellerychanning.html

2)       Rev. Hosea Ballou (1771-1852) “Death and Glory” Christian Universalist

                  http://www25-temp.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/hoseaballou.html

3)    Madelyn Payne Dunham (1922-2008) UU grandmother who raised a President

                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelyn_Payne

Other References;

1)       Universalist theology did not change much between Ballou and 1961. 

Unitarians clearly did change.  To see some of these changes after Channing, go

to:

a)       Rev. Theodore Parker (1810-1860)

         http://www25-temp.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/theodoreparker.html

b)       Rev. Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1822-1895)

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavius_Brooks_Frothingham

c)       Rev. Curtis Reese (1887-1961)

                http://www25-temp.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/curtiswillifordreese.html

2)   Read about the laity:  John Adams, P. T. Barnum, Clara Barton, R. W.

Emerson etc.

                  http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/listaf.html

3) For more on UU history, recommended books are from Skinner House, a UUA

press: 

                   http://www.uua.org/publications/skinnerhouse/browseskinner/13878.shtml