Category Archives: Conferences

2012 Papers

 Jay Atkinson Alfred Cole Unmasked: The Provenance of the Universalist Preaching Commission
 George Kimmich Beach “What’s Past Is Prologue”: James Luther Adams and the Unitarian Universalists
 Barbara Coyeman Woman’s Rights Reformer, First Ordained Universalist Woman, and Doctor of Water Cure
 Avery “Pete” Guest Why a Liberal Religion Had So Much Trouble Being Liberal: The Universalists and the 1845 Antislavery Protest
 Mark Morrison-Reed Selma Revisited
 Kathleen R. Parker “The Scientific Spirit in Religion” –Rev. L. Walter Mason in the Inter-War Years
 Sheri Prud’homme Jane Leade: Dancing With Paradise
 Jane Rosecrans Unitarian Universalism and Christianity: Perceptions and Responses to the Presence of Christians in UU Churches
 David Tarbell Analysis and Commentary of “Incomplete Nature” by Terrence Deacon
 Arliss Ungar The Honorable Horace Davis (1831-1916): Flour Merchant, Congressman, Educator, Unitarian Lay Leader

2011 Papers

 Patrice K. Curtis Giving Testimony, Receiving Testimony: Notes from the Field
 Alison Downie Interreligious Dialogue: Toward an Ecofeminist Spirituality of Openness
 Avery Guest The Decline of the Universalists: Big to Small or Small to Smaller?
 M L Joiner Fresh Thoughts on Public Theology:The Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Unitarian Women
Richard Kellaway Rev. John White, The Founder of New England:Launching the Journey Towards Unitarianism
 Helene Knox Chronicle of the Radical Reformation in Transylvania
 Bob Lane We Would Be One – The Challenge Punishment Poses to Unitarian Universalist Theology
 Glenna Matthews The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California
 Dan McKanan A New Unitarian Universalist Primary Source Collection: Brainstorming Session
 Sheri Prud’homme Apocalypse of the Mind or Creative Middle Ground: God,Nature and Humankind In Emerson’s Nature
 Arliss Ungar The Life and Times of Francis Cutting (1834 – 1913) Unitarian Lay Leader, Businessman, Benefactor
 Lydia Willsky A Liberal Glass Ceiling? Channing, Hedge and the Gendered Status Quo

2007 papers:

Kim Beach Journey to Israel and the Palestinian Occupied Territories, October, 2007
Rudra Dundzila The “Universalism” (?) of Domas Šidlauskas-Visuomis
Betty B. Hoskins Precis for Collegium 2007
Richard Kellaway Thomas Dawes Eliot: Bill’s Big Brother
Tom Korson Silence in Heaven for Half an Hour
Dan McKanan Prophetic Religion in America: Tracing the Liberal Contribution
Qiyamah Rahman Liberating Faith
By the Shores of Babylon We Wept … (PhD excerpts)
Myriam Renaud On the Future of Religious Tolerance (contact author for details)
A Speech on Theology (contact author for details)
Jane Rosecrans Between Black and White: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Philadelphia Unitarianism
Unitarian Universalist Responses to War and Peace 1st UU Series
Paul Sawyer Untitled
Untarian Universalism and the Movement for World Peace
William Schultz What Torture’s Taught Me
David W Tarbell Emergence: The New Creation Story
Arliss Ungar The 1983 Unitarian Universalist Trust for Theological Education …
Frank Walker British Unitarians and the Sea of Faith (a Synopsis)

 

 

 

2008 papers:

Barbara Coeyman Nineteenth-Century Universalist Evangelism: Connecticut to Texas, A Missionary Success Story
Lex Crane Humanity at Hazard: The Etiology of War
Alicia Forsey The Promise: Queen Isabella Sforza Zapolya of Transylvania and Sultan Suleyman of the Ottoman Empire(contact author for details)
John B. Hooper Peacemaking as an Embodied Phenomenon: A Religious Naturalist Perspective
Richard Kellaway Conrad Aiken and William James Potter
Johannes Lemke Bakker Peirce’s Wagers: Pragmaticism, Semiotics, and Theisms
Dan McKanan Unitarians, Universalists, and the Social Gospel: Two Kinds of Social Salvation
Preston Moore When Justice Gets Religion: The Role of the Ecclesia in the Public Square
Kathleen Parker Benjamin Bakewell and the Arrival of Unitarianism in Pittsburgh
Myriam Renaud On Unitarian Universalist Duties: Looking Forward with Cicero and Kant (contact author for details)
Qiyamah Rahman Postcolonial Feminist Theory and New Testament Biblical Interpretation
Testifying: Invoking the Lives and Voices of African American Universalists, Unitarians …
Jerome Stone A Report on Religious Naturalism Today (SUNY Press 2008)
David Tarbell Who We Are II: Further Reflections on Human Self Being
Arliss Ungar Howard Thurman: Minister, Theologian, Educator, Author, Mystic

 

2009 papers:

George Kimmich Beach The Seminal Gospel: a personal commentary according to the Gospel of Mark
Irene Baros-Johnson Roughing It In Toronto: Caroline Dall’s Development, 1851-1854
Gordon Gibson Freedom Moves South: background information
Chapter 1, Genesis: the typical story
Conclusion: what we can learn from what we did
Phillip Hewett The Heretic from Puddletown
The Savour of the Soil
Jennifer E. Lavery Reexamining the Examiner:  Louisville’s Regional, Unitarian, Antislavery Newspaper (1847-1850)
Dan McKanan The Religion of Socialism: Theology and Institutions in the Social Gospel Era
Kathleen Parker Charles Elliott St. John: Moral Enthusiasm and the Social Question, 1892-1900
Jane Rosecrans “Plundering” the East: UUs and Eastern Religion, Then and Now
David Tarbell A Question of Religious Depth
Arliss Ungar Preach the Gospel, Use Words if Necessary: The Life of Aron S. Gilmartin
Michelle Walsh A Deepened Exploration of Practical Theology and Unitarian Universalism’s Commitment to the Work of Anti-Oppression

 

2010 papers:

Précis for 2010 Collegium conference papers

Michael Barnett Margaret Fuller Shapes the Consciousness of America Through the New York Tribune
James J. Buckley Joseph Smith Sr: The Link between Universalism and Mormonism
Barbara Coeyman Olympia Brown — Religious Innovator, or Feminist Reformer: Which Came First?
Avery Guest In Search of a Loving God: Universalist Churches in New York, 1845-18
Doris Hunter Requiem for a multi-interfaith organization: Past, Present and Future of the International Association for Religious Freed
Richard Kellaway The Free Religious Association
Nature and Spirit: from Idyllic to Demonic
Sarah Gibb Millspaugh In Context: A Study of the About Your Sexuality Curriculum and its Times
Dan McKanan The Three Faces of Charles H. Vail
Sheri M. Prud’homme God and Nature in Thomas Starr King’s “Lessons from the Sierra Nevada” and “Living Waters from Lake Tahoe”
Erik Resly Toward a Wider Ecumenism: Hedge and Rau, Mixed Legacy of Liberal Religious Ecumenism
Jane Rosecrans Unitarian Universalism and the Secular Church
Arliss Ungar The Life and Work of Rev. Dr. Josiah Bartlett (1913-1997): The Best Seat in the House from Which to View the Theater of Life

 

UU Seminaries and scholarship discussion papers:

Jay Atkinson Report from the June 2005 (post-GA) Consultation
Wayne Arnason An Open Letter to the UUA Board of Trustees Regarding Support for UU Theological Schools
Diane Miller Response to Wayne Arnason’s letter concerning funding for theological education
David Johnson An Illiterate Ministry
David Pettee Theological Education and its Funding
Arliss Ungar Implications for Funding of Theological Education Today: Some Questions we Might Ask