“One of the greatest beauties of the Universalist faith is the idea of completeness. Our glorious faith teaches us to look forward to the time when the earnest and hearty wish of every good man shall be satisfied. The structure will not be incomplete when the work of God is finished.
Evil and sin, it is [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 31, 2009
Universalist Quote of the Day #216
March 30, 2009
Universalist Quote of the Day #215
“My hope shines brighter and brighter. I die in the hope of the glory of God.”
–Rev. Thomas Potter’s dying words
March 29, 2009
Universalist Quote of the Day #214
“Blest Jesus, take me, I am thine!
The veil is rent apart:
Won by such gracious divine,
My refuge is thy heart,
Where I can rest upon thy love,
Through cold and storm and night,
And trust God’s righteousness to prove
In happiness and light.”
–Minnie S. Davis
March 28, 2009
The Peabody Sisters: Making UU History
The annual Conrad Wright Unitarian-Universalist Historical Society lecture will take place on Thursday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. Megan Marshall will deliver the talk, entitled “The Peabody Sisters: Making UU History, 1815-1850.” Marshall’s biography of Elizabeth, Mary, and Sopia Peabody won many awards and will provide rich material about their influecnes from and on Unitarianism [...]
March 28, 2009
Contemporary Universalist Preacher Carlton Pearson on Dateline
Carlton Pearson was a famous Christian preacher, but he lost it all when God opened his heart to Universalism, the gospel of inclusion. Since then, Pearson has rebuilt his community on the basis of love, rather than fear, and this weekend he is the featured speaker at the 2009 Unitarian-Universalist Christian Fellowship Revival celebration in [...]
March 28, 2009
Unless a Seed Falls: Cultivating Liberal Institutions
On Thursday, May 7, the inaugural lecture for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Chair at Harvard Divinity School will be held. The chair and speaker is Daniel McKanan, Senior Lecturer in Divinity. His topic will be “Unless a Seed Falls: Cultivating Liberal Institutions.” This event is free and open to the public. It will [...]
March 28, 2009
Universalist Quote of the Day #213
“Universalism in its doctrinal truth and practical manifestation is the gospel of Christ in its divinest essence. It is the fatherhood of God in a diviner relationship than the human mind can really conceive, and sweeter in spirit than human sentiment can really enjoy until the soul passes over into the ‘beautiful by and by.’ [...]
March 27, 2009
Universalist Quote of the Day #212
“There is an infinite and perfect Being above me, who is God and Father of all. He loves me with an undying affection. I know that without him I could not have existed. I know that all the blessings which I enjoy come from his kindness; and I known, too, that he will raise me [...]
March 26, 2009
Universalist Quote of the Day #211
“Consider one’s self a traveller to eternity, soon to take flight from all these scenes of littleness and imperfection, and to expiate over unbounded territories, to mingle with higher intelligences, and to engage in loftier occupations, ‘to rise in science as in bliss, initiate in the secrets of the skies,’–these are thoughts which ‘make man [...]
March 25, 2009
Universalist Quote of the Day #210
“God has kept his word, and been true to holiness in all his dealings with sinners. He hates sin, and he resists and punishes it; and by and active and benevolent providence he has wrought to save sinners, to make an end of sinning, and to bring men to virtue and peace with God. So [...]
