Speaker: Rev. Dr. Colin Bossen

I Ask No Monument: The Legacy of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Poet and orator Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), a Unitarian and an abolitionist, was one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States. Her legacy, like Robert Wedderburn’s, disrupts notions that Unitarian Universalism is an intrinsically White theological tradition and, instead, calls for questions about why our institutions have so long … Continue reading I Ask No Monument: The Legacy of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Suffering for Blasphemous Libel: The Ministry of Robert Wedderburn

In the first of two sermons devoted to reimagining our Unitarian Universalist roots, the Rev. Dr. Colin Bossen will explore the life and theology of the Rev. Robert Wedderburn (1762-1836?). The Rev. Wedderburn was the first Unitarian minister of African descent. Active in London from roughly 1802 to 1828, his work leading multiracial, working-class congregations … Continue reading Suffering for Blasphemous Libel: The Ministry of Robert Wedderburn