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What's New as of 9/2/2007 (updates since 6/15 in italics).  To listen to the 2007 essay, click on  :

2007: "It's the Minister:  The Mystery and Magic of the Role" Ken Sawyer  

2006: What Torture’s Taught Me William F. Schulz

2003: Images for our Lives Laurel Hallman

1942: Democracy as a Modern Religion Jacob Trapp

1934: The Breaking of Nations (published as "After Thirty Years") John Haynes Holmes

1930: Summary: Religious Mysticism Lawrence Clare

1929: Are We Outgrowing the Need for a Church? Anna Garlin Spencer

1927: The Underlying Significance of the Fundamental Changes in the Religion of Our
         Times Horace Westwood

1920: The Meaning and Lessons of Unitarian History Earl Morse Wilbur

1916: How the Scientific and Religious Interpretations of the World Differ Joel Hastings Metcalf

1911: Socialism Nicholas Paine Gilman

1905: Channing and the History of Christian Piety Francis A. Christie

1903: The Poetic Element in the Rising Faith William Channing Gannett

1902: The Character of Jesus Christ Francis Greenwood Peabody

1900: [My Creed-(no title given)-Abstract] Charles Hargrove

1899: The Theology of Civilization Charles Fletcher Dole

1895: Christianity and Unitarianism Charles Gordon Ames

1888: The Reign of Divine Love  Howard Nicholson Brown

1864: The Scope and Powers of the New Criticism George Edward Ellis

1863: Summary: The Preacher's Duty Thomas Hill

1862: Universality of the Christian Religion as contrasted with other forms of faith, ethnic
          or unlimited to race or nation James Freeman Clarke

1858: Deficiencies of Unitarian Theology Octavius Brooks Frothingham

1832: The Duty of ministers to interest themselves in providing a further supply of
          candidates for the ministry John Gorham Palfrey

1830: Changes in Religions Opinions and the Character of Preaching in New England
          during the Last Fifty Years Ezra Ripley

1821: Summary: On the Prevalent Defects of Liberal Ministers Abiel Abbot

Charles Lyttle, "An Outline of the History of the Berry Street Ministerial Conference,"
          Meadville Theological School Quarterly Bulletin, 1930

How You Can Help with the Berry Street Web Archive Project

You may have - in your church archives or in your personal files - an un-posted Berry Street Essay.  If so, the Berry Street Project urgently needs you to find it and get it to our Project team. 

All ministers are asked to please review the “needed essay listing”.  
To see and search this listing click here.

You may see a list of essays which have already been posted by clicking the "Essay Listing" menu button above or by the clicking on the following link: http://www.uuma.org/berrystreet/essays.htm

You can search the listings either by entering the name of a respected predecessor, to learn the date and the title of an Essay s/he delivered, or the name of your church's city, to learn the names of all your predecessors who gave Berry Street Essays, along with their Essay titles and dates of delivery.  This will let you see what to look for (or ask your church archivist to look for) in your archives or files.

If you find a not yet posted Essay, please inform the Rev. Paul Sprecher ASAP by e-mail at psprecher@uuma.org.  Paul will tell you where to mail a photocopy and - if you can do so - where to send an electronic copy which can be quickly put up on our website.

Please come through on this, Colleagues.  We have now found and posted 141 off the 195 essays delivered in the past 187 sessions of the Berry Street Conference (two addresses were given in some years during the 1850s).  Any help you can offer will be much appreciated.

          Paul Sprecher, Berry Street Scribe

2007-08 Committee Members:

Rev. Paul Sprecher, Scribe
Rev. Richard Gilbert
Rev. Judith Walker-Riggs
Rev. Paul Johnson

This project was funded in part by the Fund for Unitarian Universalism.

Questions, comments, concerns? Contact the Berry Street Webmaster: psprecher@uuma.org