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Year Title Author
2007: "It's the Minister:  The Mystery and Magic of the Role"               Ken Sawyer
2006: What Torture’s Taught Me William F. Schulz
2005: The Way Home Burton D. Carley
2004: Taking Refuge Barbara Merritt
2003: Images for our Lives Laurel Hallman
2002: Spiritual Teaching Roberta M. Nelson
2001: The Art of Ministry: Being and Doing Revisited C. Leon Hopper
2000: After Running Through the Thistles: the Hard Part Begins Mark D. Morrison-Reed
1999: Lessons From Our Bishop / Lessons From the Heart Carolyn & Thomas Owen-Towle
1998: The Fundamental Things Apply as Time Goes By: 
The Transient And Permanent In Life And Ministry
Khoren Arisian
1997: On Issues Affecting Parish Ministry Judith A. Walker-Riggs
1996:
 

Confessions of a Militant Mystic: 
Spirituality and Social Action – A Seamless Garment

Richard S. Gilbert
 
1995: Koheleth Headache Thomas Payne
1994:

Beyond Spirituality

Carl Scovel
1993:

Ministry: For Such a Time as This

Gordon B. McKeeman
1992: Ministry as Companioning Elizabeth H. Baker
1991:

The Challenge of Disability

Victor Carpenter
1990:

Ministry as Art Form

Sidney A. Peterman
1989: Euthanasia As Public Policy: Rights And Risks Donald W. McKinney
1988: Minding Our P's, Q's, and X's Joyce Harkleroad Smith
1987: 25 Beacon Street Revisited O. Eugene Pickett
1986: Religion, The Church, and Our Mission in the World John Wolf
1985:

Active Religion’s Passive Voice

Roy D. Phillips 
1984:

Theology and the Democracy of the Sciences

John F. Hayward
1983:
 

Parish Ministry and Pedagogy: 1823-1983
A Past and Future Look at Religious Education

Eugene B. Navias
 
1982:

Impersonating the Divine: An Essay in Theological Anthropology

Dwight Brown
1981:

A Silent Witness to Evil

David O. Rankin
1980: Seasons of Ministry Alan G. Deale
1979:

The New Pietism

J. Frank Schulman
1978:

Images of Protestant Clergy in American Novels

Peter S. Raible
1977:

Hymnbook Reminiscences and Reflections

Vincent B. Silliman
1976:

On the Boundary—A Christian Perspective

Judith L. Hoehler
1975:

Hybris and Humility

Leonard Mason
1974:

Liberal Religion in the Post Christian Era

Edward A. Cahill
1973:

Where Has Time Brought Us?

Charles Stephen
1972: Liberal Religion’s Unfinished Business Edwin H. Wilson
1971:

Polarization or Reconciliation

John G. MacKinnon
1970: On Being a Technician of the Sacred Frank D. Gentile
1969: The MinistryExperience and Expectation Arthur Graham
1968:
 

The Genius Of The Age And Some Suggestions Toward An Imaginative Liberal Faith

Frank O. Holmes
 
1967: The Odd Man:  A description of the liberal minister John Willoughby Cyrus
1966: Why Not More Progress in Religion? Dale DeWitt
1965:

Plenitude of Being

Kenneth L. Patton
1964:

The Church: Salient or Subordinate?

Dorothy T. Spoerl
1963:

Politics and the Pulpit

Stephen H. Fritchman
1962:

Psychoanalysis and the Parish Ministry

Harry B. Scholefield
1961:

America’s Fourth Faith

Robert Zoerheide
1960: Liberalism in the Encounter Between Living World Religions Leslie T. Pennington
1959: The Soul's Fierce Struggle J Raymond Cope
1958: Unitarianism Reincarnate Thaddeus B. Clark
1957:

Motivation and the Ministry (abridged)

Malcolm R. Sutherland, Jr.
1955:

Psychological Approach to the Concept of the Deity

David Rhys Williams
1954: In Search of God Henry Wilder Foote
1950:

Sebastian Castellio: Neglected Saint of the Liberal Church

Duncan Howlett
1949:
 
“The Greatest Soul in Christendom”
and His Stand on Free Religion
Robert H. Schacht Jr.
 
1944: The American Religion Albert C. Dieffenback
1942: Democracy as a Modern Religion Jacob Trapp
1941:

The Changing Reputation of Human Nature

James Luther Adams
1937: The Church and the Academy Von Ogden Vogt
1934: The Breaking of Nations (published as "After Thirty Years") John Haynes Holmes
1933: The Bacchae of Euripides Thomas H. Billings
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
1923: Is There Need Of A Revolution In The Theological Curriculum? Franklin C. Southworth
1922: Religion and the Downmost Man (abstract) James A. Fairley
1921:

Jesus and the End of the World

Clayton R. Bowen
1920: The Meaning and Lessons of Unitarian History Earl Morse Wilbur
1919: Unitarianism and Social Change Richard Wilson Boynton
1918: The Nature and Validity of Conscience and Moral Principle Robert James Hutcheon
1916: How the Scientific and Religious Interpretations of the World Differ Joel Hastings Metcalf
1911:

Socialism

Nicholas Paine Gilman

1908:

Theology from the Far End and the Near

Frederic Gill

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
1901:

Experimental Theology and Experimental Religion

Samuel R. Calthrop
1900:

[My Creed-(no title given)-Abstract]

Charles Hargrove
1899:

The Theology of Civilization

Charles Fletcher Dole
1897:

Reason in Religion

Charles Carroll Everett
1896:

The Infection of Pessimism

George Batchelor
1895: Christianity and Unitarianism Charles Gordon Ames
1892: The History and Present Duty of the Unitarian Church in America Edward Everett Hale
1890: Christianity in the Process of Evolution George Augustus Thayer
1889:

What O’Clock Is It In Religion?

Minot J. Savage
1888:

The Reign of Divine Love

Howard Nicholson Brown
1887:

Religion from the Near End

Jenkin Lloyd Jones
1886:

The Twofold Symbol of Godhead

Joseph May
1886: God Samuel Robert Calthrop
1884:

A Daring Faith

John W. Chadwick
1883:

Christian Affirmations

Henry Wilder Foote
1880: The Inspiration and Work of the Christian Ministry William Greenleaf Eliot
1879:

The New Religion

Grindell Reynolds
1876: Then and Now Joseph Henry Allen
1875:

Jesus, the Only

William Henry Furness
1874: The Christian Progress of a Generation Rufus Ellis
1873:

Religion and Evolution

S.R. Calthrop
1871:

Unitarian Principles And Doctrines

Charles H. Brigham
1870: Summary:  What is True Channing Unitarianism? William Henry Channing
1869:

Religious tendencies in the United States

Amory Dwight Mayo
1868: The Faith of Science and the Science of Faith Charles Carroll Everett
1867:

Basis and Superstructure

Orville Dewey
1866: The Destinies of Ecclesiastical Religion:  A Concio Ad Clerum. Frederic Henry Hedge
1865:

Summary: The Necessity and Value of Associations

Henry Whitney Bellows
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
1861:

Summary: The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity

Andrew Preston Peabody
1860: The Broad Church Frederic Henry Hedge
1859:

The Key of the Kingdom

Cyrus Bartol
1858:

Deficiencies of Unitarian Theology

Octavius Brooks Frothingham
1857:
 

The Practical Study of the Soul by our Ministers: Or, Pastoral Psychology

Samuel Osgood
 
1856: The Written Word and the Christian Consciousness Oliver Stearns
1855a: Summary: The Relation of Christianity and the Christian Ministry to the Secular Activity of the Times Ephraim Peabody
 
1855b: Reform as Affecting the Rights of Property Samuel J. May
1854: Polemics and Irenics James Freeman Clarke
1851a:

Ecclesiastic Christendom

Frederic Henry Hedge
1851:

Summary:  Social Reform

John Pierpont
1850a:
 
The Importance of Systematic Theology, and the Duty of the Unitarian Clergy in Relation to It George Washington Burnap
 
1850b: Fraternal Cooperation William Henry Channing
1849: The Nature and Importance of our Theology Ezra S. Gannett
1848:
 

Summary: The Difficulties and Discouragements, Responsibilities and Duties, incident to the Position of Liberal Ministers at this time

Samuel Kirkland Lothrop
 
1847: Relation of Liberal Christianity to Our Age and Country Samuel Barrett
1846: Relation of the Christian Ministry to Reform Edward B. Hall
1845: Rights, Claims, and Duties of Opinion Orville Dewey
1844: Alleged Defects of Unitarian Preaching Charles Robinson
1843:
 

Summary: The Religious Aspects of the Community, and the Duty of Unitarian clergymen in regard to them

Edmund Q. Sewell
 
1842: Ecclesiastical History Alvan Lamson
1841: Summary: Our Peculiar Position as Liberal Christian—Our Duties and Prospects Andrew Bigelow
 
1840: Miracles as an Evidence of Christianity David Damon
1836:

Summary: Real and Alleged Defects of the Preaching of Unitarian Ministers

James Walker
 
1835: The Best Means of Bringing our Lay Brethren to be More Useful in the Maintenance of Religious Institutions Henry Ware, Jr.
1832: The Duty of ministers to interest themselves in providing a further supply of candidates for the ministry John Gorham Palfrey
1831: The Modes of Exerting Religious Influence at the Present Day Nathaniel Thayer
1830: Changes in Religions Opinions and the Character of Preaching in New England during the Last Fifty Years Ezra Ripley
1826: Duty of Unitarians with Respect to Christianity in India Henry Ware, Sr.
1825:

The Effect of Character on Ministerial Usefulness

Winthrop Bailey
1824: On the Duties of the Church as Distinct from the Congregation... Nathan Parker
1823: The Means to be used by Ministers for Giving the Young Adequate Views of the Nature and Importance of True Christianity James Flint
1822: The Difficulties of the Christian Ministry at the Present Period Joseph Tuckerman
1821: Summary: On the Prevalent Defects of Liberal Ministers Abiel Abbot
1820: How Far is Reason to be Used in Explaining Revelation? William Ellery Channing

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Author Title Year
Abbot, Abiel Summary: On the Prevalent Defects of Liberal Ministers 1821
Adams, James Luther

The Changing Reputation of Human Nature

1941
Allen, Joseph Henry Then and Now 1876
Ames, Charles Gordon Christianity and Unitarianism 1895
Arisian, Khoren  The Fundamental Things Apply as Time Goes By: 
The Transient And Permanent In Life And Ministry
1998
Bailey, Winthrop The Effect of Character on Ministerial Usefulness 1825
Baker, Elizabeth H. Ministry as Companioning 1992
Barrett, Samuel Relation of Liberal Christianity to Our Age and Country 1847
Bartol, Cyrus The Key of the Kingdom 1859
Batchelor, George The Infection of Pessimism 1896
Bellows, Henry Whitney Summary: The Necessity and Value of Associations 1865
Bigelow, Andrew
 
Summary: Our Peculiar Position as Liberal Christian—Our Duties and Prospects 1841
 
Billings, Thomas H. The Bacchae of Euripides 1933
Bowen, Clayton R. Jesus and the End of the World 1921
Boynton, Richard Wilson Unitarianism and Social Change 1919
Brigham, Charles H Unitarian Principles And Doctrines 1871
Brown, Dwight
 
Impersonating the Divine: An Essay in Theological Anthropology 1982
Brown, Howard Nicholson The Reign of Divine Love 1888
Burnap, George Washington
 
The Importance of Systematic Theology, and the Duty of the Unitarian Clergy in Relation to It 1850
 
Cahill, Edward A.

Liberal Religion in the Post Christian Era

1974
Calthrop, Samuel Robert Experimental Theology and Experimental Religion 1901
Calthrop, Samuel Robert God 1886
Calthrop, Samuel Robert Religion and Evolution 1873
Carley, Burton D. The Way Home 2005
Carpenter, Victor The Challenge of Disability 1991

Chadwick, John W.

A Daring Faith 1884
Channing, William Ellery How Far is Reason to be Used in Explaining Revelation? 1820
Channing, William Henry Fraternal Cooperation 1850
Channing, William Henry Summary:  What is True Channing Unitarianism? 1870
Christie, Francis A.

Channing and the History of Christian Piety

1905
Clark, Thaddeus B.

Unitarianism Reincarnate

1958
Clare, Lawrence

Summary: The Mystical Element in Religion

1930
Clarke, James Freeman Polemics and Irenics 1854
Clarke, James Freeman

Universality of the Christian Religion as contrasted with other forms of faith, ethnic or unlimited to race or nation

1862
Cope, J Raymond The Soul's Fierce Struggle 1959
Cyrus, John Willoughby The Odd Man:  A description of the liberal minister 1967
Damon, David Miracles as an Evidence of Christianity 1840
Deale, Alan G. Seasons of Ministry 1980
Dewey, Orville Basis and Superstructure 1867
Dewey, Orville Rights, Claims, and Duties of Opinion 1845
DeWitt, Dale Why Not More Progress in Religion? 1966
Dieffenback, Albert C. The American Religion 1944
Dole, Charles Fletcher The Theology of Civilization 1899
Eliot, William Greenleaf The Inspiration and Work of the Christian Ministry 1880
Ellis, George Edward The Scope and Powers of the New Criticism 1864
Ellis, Rufus The Christian Progress of a Generation 1874
Everett, Charles Carroll Reason in Religion 1897
Everett, Charles Carroll The Faith of Science and the Science of Faith 1868
Fairley, James A. Summary: Religion and the Downmost Man 1922
Flint, James The Means to be used by Ministers for Giving the Young Adequate Views of the Nature and Importance of True Christianity 1823
Foote, Henry Wilder In Search of God 1954
Foote, Henry Wilder Christian Affirmations 1883
Fritchman, Stephen H. Politics and the Pulpit 1963
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks Deficiencies of Unitarian Theology 1858
Furness, William Henry Jesus, the Only 1875
Gannett, Ezra Stiles The Nature and Importance of our Theology 1849
Gannett, William Channing The Poetic Element in the Rising Faith 1903
Gentile, Frank D. On Being a Technician of the Sacred 1970
Gilbert, Richard S.
 
Confessions of a Militant Mystic:  Spirituality and Social Action – A Seamless Garment 1996
 

Gill, Frederic

Theology from the Far End and the Near

1908

Gilman, Nicholas Paine

Socialism

1911

Graham, Arthur

The Ministry—Experience and Expectation

1969
Hale, Edward Everett The History and Present Duty of the Unitarian Church in America 1892
Hall, Edward B. Relation of the Christian Ministry to Reform 1846
Hallman, Laurel Images for our Lives 2003
Hargrove, Charles Summary: [My Creed (no title Given)] 1900
Hayward, John F. Theology and the Democracy of the Sciences 1984
Hedge, Frederic Henry The Broad Church 1860
Hedge, Frederic Henry The Destinies of Ecclesiastical Religion:  A Concio Ad Clerum. 1866
Hedge, Frederic Henry Ecclesiastic Christendom 1851
Hill, Thomas Summary: The Preacher's Duty 1863
Hoehler, Judith L. On the Boundary—A Christian Perspective 1976
Holmes, Frank O.
 
The Genius Of The Age And Some Suggestions Toward An Imaginative Liberal Faith 1968
 
Holmes, John Haynes The Breaking of Nations (published as "After Thirty Years") 1934
Hopper, C. Leon The Art of Ministry: Being and Doing Revisited