This project started as an attempt to make the writings of William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) available on-line. Since then it has grown, but I want to keep Channing in the place of honor.
Items with an '*' are included in C. Conrad Wright, THREE PROPHETS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERALISM: Channing - Emerson - Parker, a good introduction to Unitarian Universalist history. Wright's introduction to these three talks will be added here shortly.
Selected digitized texts of and relating to William Ellery Channing (1780-1842).
Sermon at the Ordination of John Codman, 1808.
A LETTER TO THE REV. SAMUEL C{OOPER} THACHER ON THE
ASPERSIONS CONTAINED IN A LATE NUMBER OF THE PANOPLIST, ON THE MINISTERS OF
BOSTON AND THE VICINITY, 1815.
*Unitarian Christianity, 1819.
Lectures on the Elevation of the Labouring Portion of the Community.
The Moral Arguement Against Calvinism, 1820.
PREFACE TO THE 1830 DISCOURSES.
SLAVERY, 1835.
Edmund Quincy to W. E. Channing, 1840. This letter, printed by Garrison in the LIBERATOR, uses the refusal of the Federal Street
Church to host a Memorial Service for Charles Follen as an example
of the failure of the churches to support the anti-slavery cause.
It is likely that Quincy and Garrison hoped to pressure Channing into
supporting their cause. The embarrassment contributed to Channing's
resignation from the Church.
Letter of resignation from the Federal Street Church, 1840.
Other authors:
Adin Ballou, Standard of Practical Christianity, 1839.
Hosea Ballou, A Short Essay on Universalism, c. 1849.
Olympia Brown, Aquaintances, Old and New, among Reformers. 1911.
John White Chadwick, The Black Man's Burden.
Moncure D. Conway, The Writings of Thomas Paine, 1986.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Works
*Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity School Address, 1838.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Black Rebellion, 1888.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Literature in a Republic, 1892.
Thomas Wentworth Higgingson, Pay of Colored Troops, 1864.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Negro Spirituals, 1867.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women & the Alphabet, 1881.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Emily Dickinson's Letters, 1891.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country, 1899.
Julia Ward Howe, Mother's Day Proclamation.
The Humanist Manifesto, 1933.
David A Johnson, 1998 SWUUSI Lectures: The following talks were given at the 1998 SWUUSI gathering in Texhoma Resort, Durand, OK by Rev. David A. Johnson of Brookline, MA. They are not footnoted, since they were a verbal presenation, but the author would be glad to respond to inquiries concerning sources. Some of the opening stories and humor in the lectures either was not in the script, or has been excised from this version.
David A. Johnson, The Unitarian Universalist Church: A History of Diversity and Openness.
Samuel J. May, Some Recollections of Anti-Slavery.
Samuel J. May, The Revival of Education, 1855.
Suzanne Meyer, New Occasions, New Duties, A Talk Given At The Ballou Channing District Annual Meeting, 1996.
Suzanne Meyer, UUism and the Post Modern Imagination, A Talk Given at 1996 SUUSI.
Theodore Parker, On Emerson.
Theodore Parker, The Public Function of Women, 1853.
*Theodore Parker, THE TRANSIENT AND PERMANENT IN CHRISTIANITY, 1841.
Clarence Skinner, A RELIGION FOR GREATNESS, Chapter Two, 1945.
Henry David Thoreau, Works.
Henry Ware, Jr., EXTEMPORANEOUS PREACHING, 1831.
Unitarian Universalist Historical Society.
