Sermons – Essays – Stories
* are items that can be found at the public library. If it is available online, it has a hyperlink. Items are in no particular order.
Hosea Ballou
“A Letter from Rev. Hosea Ballou to Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher” by Hosea Ballou
The Ancient History of Universalism by Hosea Ballou
The Universalist Pulpit by Hosea Ballou and others.
Ballou’s sermon, The Author’s Ministry, written near the end of life, acts as a summation of his theological position and a capstone of his ministerial work. He died shortly after writing this sermon at the age of 81.
Hosea Ballou: The Challenge to Orthodoxy by Ernest Cassara
William Ellery Channing
Unitarian Christianity” by William Ellery Channing
A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Rev. Charles Follen by William Ellery Channing
Nathaniel Hawthonre
The Celestial Railroad” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Free Audiobook of Walden
Walden by Henry David Thoreau*
"Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Divinity School Address” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Fuller
Woman in the 19th Century by Margaret Fuller
Lydia Maria Child
“Slavery’s Pleasant Homes” by Lydia Maria Child
"An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans" by Lydia Maria Child
"Letters from New York" by Lydia Maria Child
Judith Murray
“On the Equality of the Sexes” by Judith Murray
Julia Ward Howe
"The Moral Initiative as Related to Women" by Julia Ward Howe
"Mother's Day Proclamation" by Julia Ward Howe
Theodore Parker
“The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity” by Theodore Parker
Note: If anyone reads The Aesthetic Papers, it is in there as well under its original name.
Elizabeth Peabody
The Aesthetic Papers by Elizabeth Peabody
The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall*
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott*
Moods by Louisa May Alcott
The Dial
The Dial volume 1 of particular interest are:
- The Editors to the Reader – Emerson and Fuller
- The Divine Presence in Nature and in the Soul – Parker
- Letter to a Theological Student – Ripley
- Orphic Sayings – Alcott
- The Unitarian Movement in New England – William Dexter Wilson
Winchester Profession
Winchester Profession and other professions of faith
