Unitarian Universalist

The Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray felt called to Arizona at a time when the state was ground zero for the controversy on immigration that today dominates the headlines. It didn’t take long for the issue to become personal. The Unitarian Universalist...

“It’s rare for a divinity school to have such a diverse group of people,” says Israel Buffardi, MDiv '19, of HDS. “[It allows for] building community with all different types of people and finding connections with each other and the values in their lives...

Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1819, Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing spoke at a Baltimore church and delivered what would be described nearly two centuries later as probably the most important Unitarian sermon ever preached anywhere. Now, the...

Some people think that politics and art don’t mix. Impose a political message, they say, and art becomes contrived and manipulative. Bring too much art to politics and it becomes unserious and impractical. Rev. Erik Martinez Resly, MDiv ’12, is not one of...

From the Commission of Appraisal in 1936 to the Black Empowerment impulse of the 1960s, James Luther Adams was a significant shaper of Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist institutions. And as a social ethicist, he helped envision the new national and...

The Unitarian Universalist Association elected the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, MDiv '01, as its ninth president on June 24. Frederick-Gray is the first woman elected to lead the liberal religious movement, which includes approximately 1,000 congregations...

The education of progressive Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist ministers is literally embedded in Harvard Divinity School’s DNA. The legendary Rev. William Ellery Channing actually penned the 1815 appeal that went out in Harvard President Kirkland’s...

A new PBS documentary, “ Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War,” tells the story of anti-Nazi heroes Martha and Waitstill Sharp. On Tuesday, the film will be screened at 4 pm in the Sperry Room, Andover Hall. A post-screening panel, at 5:45 pm, will include...

The NFL has chaplains. Most universities do, too. The military, U.S. Congress, and hospitals across the country have access to chaplaincy resources, but not social change leaders. Not typically anyway. But over the last several years, three Harvard...

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Andover-Harvard Theological Library has created an exhibit of historic documents and images chronicling the decades of global human rights advocacy and humanitarian work by the...