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This church was a transplant of the staunchly liberal Christianity from New England Unitarianism.
By The Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva, IL, Geneva, IL | March 8, 2016 | From MidAmerica Region Historical Vignettes -
Herman Bisbee (1833-1879) was a well-traveled minister. Born in Vermont, he served churches in New York State, St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota, London’s East End, and Boston. He studied at Harvard and in Nuremberg, Germany.
By Victor Urbanowicz | January 18, 2016 | From MidAmerica Region Historical Vignettes -
The Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts stands on East Main Street in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Built in 1889 to house a humanist Unitarian congregation, to provide a performance space for theater and music, and to serve the community in other ways, it is now a historic site that serves similar purposes.
By Victor Urbanowicz | November 11, 2015 | From MidAmerica Region Historical Vignettes -
Eleanor Gordon (1852-1942), was co-leader with Mary Safford of the Iowa Sisterhood. In 1912 both were in Orlando, not planning to start new churches at their stage of life, when friends who had moved there from Iowa asked Gordon to organize a church in town. Gordon suggested Safford as the minister but Safford declined
By Victor Urbanowicz | October 2, 2015 | From MidAmerica Region Historical Vignettes -
A Light on the Prairie: By 1860, the vigorous growth of Universalist churches in the Midwest was slowing; congregations in the region experienced stability at best, decline at worst. Over the next century this did not improve, and the 1961 merger was sometimes seen as a matter of thriving Unitarians offering shelter to
By Victor Urbanowicz, First Universalist Church of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN | August 13, 2015 | From MidAmerica Region Historical Vignettes -
...I saw no sign of megachurch techniques. Bradley did not “orate.” He spoke in a personal, conversational way, revealing his own feelings and thoughts and his high aspirations for what people could do. ...
July 14, 2015 | From MidAmerica Region Historical Vignettes -
No mid-twentieth-century Unitarian minister, save perhaps A. Powell Davies, reached more hearts and minds than did Preston Bradley (1888-1983). Among our contemporaries only Forrest Church — albeit in a more scholarly way — comes even close. Yet outside of Chicago, Bradley has been largely forgotten when he is not scor
By Patrick Murfin | May 27, 2015 | From MidAmerica Region Historical Vignettes -
What happened when First U South Bend suffered retaliation for publicly opposing the Vietnam war. Suggestion for discussion groups: when your congregation takes a principled stand, what are the risks and what are the benefits? ...
By First Unitarian Church of South Bend, South Bend, IN | May 1, 2015 | From MidAmerica Region Historical Vignettes -
Mary Newbury Adams (1837-1901) became one of the major leaders of the women’s movement in the last half of the 19th century through her efforts of establishing women’s clubs. Women’s clubs were the only place then where women “could hear their own voices.”
April 7, 2015 | From MidAmerica Region Historical Vignettes -
Helen Grace Putnam (1840-1895), the third child and only daughter of progressive Boston-area parents who gave her a good education. A capable and diligent student, she mastered several languages and became a skilled pianist. In Boston she taught music, edited a liberal Christian magazine, and helped poor children by
March 12, 2015 | From MidAmerica Region Historical Vignettes