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  • Excerpted and adapted from the article, "Margaret Fuller's 1842 Journal: At Concord with the Emersons" edited with an Introduction by Joel Myerson, Harvard Library Bulletin 21 (October 1979)....
    Leader Resource | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
  • Based on multiple sources, particularly a letter from Margaret Fuller to Caroline Sturgis, October 22, 1840. The letter may be found at Houghton Library, Harvard University (call number MS Am 1221 (242))....
    Story | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Anger, Brokenness, Change, Conflict, Death, Gender, Identity, Illness, Integrity, Letting Go, Reproductive Justice, Unitarianism
  • Activity Minutes Opening 5 Activity 1: Losing Heart and Finding It Again 10 Activity 2: Introducing Margaret Fuller 20 Activity 3: Small Group Reflection, Testing Fuller 40 Activity 4: Large Group Reflection 10 Closing 5...
    February 7, 2013 | From What Moves Us
  • This is a 30-minute activity. Description How does our congregation pay attention to our individual experiences of emotional struggle? Is the congregation a place where people can bring their whole selves, even when they are feeling less-than-perfect? Reflect on your own experiences of emotional...
    Leader Resource | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
  • Selections from Memoir of William Ellery Channing with Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts, In Three Volumes, William Henry Channing, ed. (Boston, 1851). Here are three excerpts from Volume I of Channing's Memoir. I. My whole life has been a struggle with my feelings. Last winter I...
    Leader Resource | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
  • From "Likeness to God," a Discourse at the Ordination of the Rev. F.A. Farley, Providence, Rhode Island, 1828, found in William Ellery Channing: Selected Writings, David Robinson, ed. (New York: Paulist Press, 1985). In proportion as we approach and resemble the mind of God, we are brought into...
    Handout | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
  • Information drawn from sources including: Channing, William Henry, Memoir of William Ellery Channing with Extracts His Correspondents and Manuscripts, In Three Volumes, (Boston, 1851) Wright, Conrad, http://www.uuabookstore.org/Three-Prophets-of-Religious-Liberalism-P175… Prophets of Religious...
    Handout | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
  • Adapted from multiple sources, primarily the Memoir of William Ellery Channing with Extracts from His Correspondents and Manuscripts, in Three Volumes, William Henry Channing, ed. (Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, fifth edition, 1851)....
    Story | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Challenge, Conflict, Connections, Conscience, Contemplation, Dignity, Gender, Guilt, Health, Pain, Unitarianism
  • Activity Minutes Opening 5 Activity 1: Recalling Personal Experiences 15 Activity 2: Introducing William Ellery Channing 20 Activity 3: Personal Experience 30 Activity 4: Critical Reflection, Testing Channing 15 Closing 5...
    February 7, 2013 | From What Moves Us
  • From Hosea Ballou, http://books.google.com/books?vid=HARVARD32044016976474&printsec=ti… Treatise on Atonement in which, The Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as such; The Necessity and Nature of Atonement; And its Glorious Consequences in the FINAL RECONCILIATION OF ALL...
    Handout | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
  • Hosea Ballou preached his liberal faith to everyday people, men and women of the laboring classes. He was a self-educated man from rural New Hampshire and Massachusetts who was spurned by the Boston Unitarian elite. But in no small part thanks to Ballou, by the end of the 19th century, one out of...
    Handout | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
  • In 1789, Hosea Ballou attended the Baptist revival held in his hometown of Richmond, New Hampshire. Moved by the preaching during this event, which was touted as "The Great Reformation," Ballou, age 19, stepped forward to be baptized....
    Story | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Belief, Choice, Conscience, Discernment, Dissent, Doubt, Faith, Fear, God, Grace, Universalism
  • Activity Minutes Opening 5 Activity 1: Introducing Hosea Ballou 5 Activity 2: The Story of Hosea Ballou's Conversion 10 Activity 3: Personal Experience 30 Activity 4: Testing Ballou 35 Closing 5...
    February 7, 2013 | From What Moves Us
  • Charles Chauncy preached this sermon May 13, 1742, at the First Church of Boston. Printed by T. Fleet, for D. Henchman and S. Eliot in Cornhill, 1742. Excerpts 3 and 5 include paraphrasing as well as direct quotes from the sermon. First Excerpt The Holy Ghost, or Holy Spirit, as the word is...
    Handout | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
  • Charles Chauncy was the leading opponent of the Great Awakening, the Protestant evangelical movement that swept through the British North American colonies between 1739 and 1745. Chauncy was born into the elite Puritan merchant class that ruled Boston....
    Story | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Class, Conflict, Culture, Discernment, Dissent, Equity, History, Leadership, Privilege, Unitarianism
  • Edward M. Griffin, Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980). Charles H. Lippy, Seasonable Revolutionary: The Mind of Charles Chauncy (Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1981). Conrad Wright, The Beginnings of Unitarianism in America (Hamden, CT: Archon...
    February 7, 2013 | From What Moves Us
  • Activity Minutes Opening 5 Activity 1: Four Human Capacities 20 Activity 2: Introducing Charles Chauncy 25 Activity 3: Testing Chauncy's Ideas 20 Activity 4: Reflecting on Personal Experience 20 Closing 5...
    February 7, 2013 | From What Moves Us
  • This is a 30-minute activity. You will need copies of Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook, one for every two participants; paper and pens/pencils; and newsprint, markers, and tape. Engage participants to consider how contemporary Unitarian Universalism reflects de...
    Leader Resource | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
  • Information drawn from Albert D. Bell, The Life and Times of Dr. George de Benneville (1703-1793) (Boston: The Universalist Church of America, 1953) and David Robinson, “George de Benneville,” The Unitarians and the Universalists (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1985). George de Benneville is the...
    Handout | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
  • Excerpted from Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of Dr. George de Benneville, translated by Rev. Elhanan Winchester (Germantown, PA: Converse Cleaves, Publisher, 1890), with material to explain the context for each.George de Benneville was raised by his godmother, Queen Anne of England....
    Story | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Arrogance, Brokenness, Class, Conscience, Contemplation, Courage, Depression, Dignity, Discernment, God, Universalism