Ministerial Fellowship Committee Encouraged Reading List and Resources

Unitarian Universalist History

• Earl Morse Wilbur, A History of Unitarianism, Volume I (1945) (PDF, 870 pages); Volume II (1952) (PDF, 368 pages)
   
• George Huntston Williams, American Universalism (1970; 4th ed. 2002)
   
• Phillip Hewett, Unitarians in Canada (1978; 2nd ed. 1995) (PDF, 204 pages)
   
• Conrad Wright, A Stream of Light: A Short History of Unitarianism (1989)
   
• Charles A. Howe, The Larger Faith: A Short History of American Universalism (1993)

Unitarian Universalist Theologies

• Humanist Manifesto I (1933)
   
• Humanist Manifesto II (1973)
   
• Humanist Manifesto III, “Humanism and Its Aspirations” (2003)
   
• Henry Nelson Wieman, The Source of Human Good (1946)
   
• Charles Hartshorne, Reality as Social Process (1953)
   
• Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes (1984)
   
• George Kimmich Beach, ed., The Essential James Luther Adams: Selected Essays and Addresses (1998)
   
• Charles A. Howe, ed., The Essential Clarence Skinner: A Brief Introduction to His Life and Writings (2004) 

Religious Education

• Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA) Code of Professional Practices
   
• LREDA Guidelines for Professional Religious Educators
   
• Annotated Reading List (PDF, 43 pages): the Religious Education Credentialing Committee has created an extraordinary resource!

Community Ministry

• Society for Community Ministry Code of Professional Practice (PDF)
   
• Barbara F. Meyers, Mental Health Information for Ministers: a Summary (2009) (PDF)

Denominational and Institutional Resources

• Jack Mendelsohn, Being Liberal in an Illiberal Age: Why I Am a Unitarian Universalist (1964; rev. ed. 2006)
   
• Conrad Wright, Walking Together: Polity and Participation in UU Churches (1998)
   
• Mark Harris, Historical Dictionary of Unitarian Universalism (2004)

Online Institutional Resources

• Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)
   
• Ministerial Fellowship Committee (MFC)
   
• UUA Ministry and Professional Leadership Staff Group (MPL)
   
• Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (UUMA)
   
• Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA)
   
• Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)
   
• Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC)
   
• General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, Great Britain
   
• Transylvanian Unitarian Church
   
• International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU)
   
• International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF)
   
• Meadville Lombard Theological School
   
• Starr King School for the Ministry

History: General

• George Huntston Williams, The Radical Reformation (1952; 3rd ed. 2000)
   
• Charles H. Lyttle, Freedom Moves West: A History of the Western Unitarian Conference, 1852-1952 (1952; rev. ed. 2006)
   
• Ernest Cassara, ed., Universalism in America: A Documentary History of a Liberal Faith (1971; 4th ed. 2006)
   
• Russell E. Miller, The Larger Hope: The Universalist Church in America 2 volumes (1979, 1985)
   
• Sydney E. Ahlstrom and Jonathan S. Carey, An American Reformation: Documentary History of Unitarian Christianity (1985)
   
• David B. Parke, ed., The Epic of Unitarianism: Original Writings from the History of Liberal Religion (1985)
   
• Conrad Wright, The Unitarian Controversy: Essays on American Unitarian History (1994)
   
• Dorothy Emerson, Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform 1776-1936 (1999)
   
• David E. Bumbaugh, Unitarian Universalism: A Narrative History (2000)
   
• Ann Lee Bressler, The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880 (2001)
   
• John Allen Macaulay, Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution (2001)

Online History Resources

• Bibliography of Unitarian Universalist History
   
• Classic American Unitarian Writings
   
• Dictionary of Unitarian Universalist Biography
   
• UU Historical Society

History: Special Topics

• Robert Cummins, Excluded: The Story of the Council of Churches and the Universalists (1964)
   
• Eugene B. Navias, Singing our History: Tales, Texts and Tunes from Two Centuries of Unitarian and Universalists Hymns (1975)
   
• Spencer Lavan, Unitarians and India: A Study in Encounter and Response (1977)
   
• Donald M. Scott, From Office to Profession: The New England Ministry 1750-1850 (1978)
   
• Stephen A. Marini, Radical Sects of Revolutionary New England (1982)
   
• Daniel Walker Howe, The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805-1861 (1988)
   
• Mason Olds, American Religious Humanism (1995; rev. ed. 2006)
   
• Fredric John Muir, Maglipay Universalist: A History of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines (2001)
   
• Phillip Hewett, Racovia: An Early Liberal Religious Community (2004)
   
• Victor Carpenter, The Long Challenge: The Empowerment Controversy, 1967-1977 (2004)
   
• Robert Nelson West, Crisis and Change: My Years as President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, 1969-1977 (2007)

Unitarian Universalist/Liberal Theologies

• James Luther Adams, On Being Human Religiously Max L. Stackhouse, ed. (1976)
   
• James Luther Adams, Voluntary Associations J. Ronald Engel, ed. (1986)
   
• James Luther Adams, The Prophethood of All Believers George K. Beach, ed. (1986)
   
• James Luther Adams, An Examined Faith George K. Beach, ed. (1991) 
   
• Andrew M. Hill, Jill K. McAllister, and Clifford M. Reed, eds., A Global Conversation: Unitarian/Universalism at the Dawn of the 21st Century, Proceedings of the ICUU Theological Symposium, 2001, Oxford, England (2002)
   
• George Kimmich Beach, Transforming Liberalism: The Theology of James Luther Adams (2005)
   
• The Home We Share: Globalization, Post-Modernism, and Unitarian/Universalist Theology, Proceedings of the 2nd ICUU Theological Symposium, 2006, Kolosvár (Cluj-Napoca), Romania (2007)
   
• Gary Dorrien, The Making of American Liberal Theology 3 volumes (2001, 2003, 2006)

Biographical and Cultural Resources

• William R. Hutchison, Transcendentalist Ministers: Church Reform in the New England Renaissance (1959; rev. 2005)
   
• Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (1977; rev. 1998)
   
• Robert D. Richardson, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (1988)
   
• Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in 19th Century America (1989; 2d ed. 2001)
   
• James Luther Adams, Not Without Dust and Heat: A Memoir (1995)
   
• Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1996)
   
• Joan W. Goodwin, The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley: The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley (1998)
   
• Peter S. Field, The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780-1833 (1998)
   
• Richard Henry, Norbert Fabian Capek: A Spiritual Journey (1999)
   
• Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (2005)
   
• Susan Cheever, American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work (2006)
   
• Dean Grodzins, American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism (2007)
   
• Catherine L. Albanese, A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion (2007)
   
• Cynthia Tucker, No Silent Witness: The Eliot Parsonage Women and Their Unitarian World (Oxford U P, 2010)

Online Research Aids

• Meadville Lombard Library Index to Theses and Rare Pamphlet Collection
   
• Starr King Wilbur Rare Book Collection

The Unitarian Universalist Tradition: A Basic Research and Reading List

• Andover-Harvard Theological Library Resource Guide
   
• Journal of Liberal Religion
   
• Collegium: An Association of Liberal Religious Studies
   
• Electronic Archives of Liberal Religion
   
• Harvard Square Library