- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. - Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker (August 24 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts - May 10 1860, Florence, Italy) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. In 1850, Parker was the first to use the phrase, "of all the people, by all the people, for all the people" which later influenced Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. In words made famous by Martin Luther King, Jr. a century later, … - Harvey Cox
Harvey Gallagher Cox, Jr. (born March 19, 1929 in Malvern, Pennsylvania) is one of the preeminent theologians in the United States and serves as professor of divinity at the Harvard Divinity School. Cox's research and teaching focus on theological developments in world Christianity, including liberation theology and the role of Christianity in Latin America. After a stint in the U.S. Merchant Marine, … - James Luther Adams
James Luther Adams (November 121901 - July 261994), a professor at Meadville Lombard Theological School and Unitarian parish minister, was the most influential theologian among American Unitarian Universalists in the 20th century. James Luther Adams was born in Ritzville, Washington, the son of James Carey Adams, a farmer and itinerant fundamentalist Baptist preacher. In his family and in church, the Day of Judgement was always a very real possibility. - Scotty McLennan
The Reverend William L. McLennan, Jr. - better known as "Scotty McLennan" - was born on November 21, 1948. He is an ordained minister, lawyer, professor, published author, and administrator at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Since January 1, 2001, McLennan has been the Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University, where he oversees non-academic religious affairs on campus, is the minister of Stanford Memorial Church, … - John Cranley
John Cranley is an American politician of the Democratic Party, who currently serves as a member of the city council of Cincinnati, Ohio. Before joining city council, Cranley was an attorney with the Cincinnati law firm Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister. John Cranley was born in Green Township, Ohio, and grew up in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Price Hill. He attended St. Williams School, a pariochial elementary school of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and graduated from St. - Peter J. Gomes
Peter John Gomes is a prominent African American preacher and theologian at Harvard University's Divinity School. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1942, Gomes graduated from Bates College in 1965 and Harvard Divinity School in 1968. He also spent time at the University of Cambridge and is now an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, where The Gomes Lectureship is established in his name. - Henry Whitney Bellows
Henry Whitney Bellows (June 11, 1814 - January 30, 1882) was American clergyman, and the planner and president of the United States Sanitary Commission, the leading soldiers' aid society, during the American Civil War. Under his leadership, the USSC became the major source of spiritual and physical aid for wounded Union soldiers. Bellows was born in Boston, Massachusetts.He graduated at Harvard College in 1832, and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1837, … - William Greenleaf Eliot
William Greenleaf Eliot (1811 - 1887) was an American educator, Unitarian clergyman, and civic leader in Missouri. He is most famous for founding Washington University in St. Louis. Eliot was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. After attending the Friends Academy in New Bedford, Eliot attended Columbian College (now the George Washington University), Washington, D.C., and graduated in 1831. Eliot then attended Harvard Divinity School and graduated in 1834. - George Ripley
George Ripley (October 3, 1802-July 4,1880) was an American social reformer, Unitarian, and Transcendentalist. He is best remembered as the founder of the short-lived utopian community Brook Farm. Ripley graduated from Harvard in 1823. In 1827 he married Sophia Dana. Graduating in 1826 from Harvard Divinity School, he became a Unitarian minister at Boston's Purchase Street Church, and was active throughout the 1830s in Unitarian theological thought. - Jane Shaw
The Revd Canon Dr Jane Alison Shaw (born 1965) is a British priest and scholar. Shaw read Modern History at Regent's Park College, Oxford, (BA 1985, MA 1991), Theology at Harvard University (MDiv 1988), and completed a PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley (1994). She has also received honorary doctorates from the Graduate Theological Foundation and Episcopal Divinity School. She was a Fellow of Regent's Park from 1994 to 2001 (Dean 1998-2001). - Robert P. George
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties and philosophy of law. He also serves as the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He was educated at Swarthmore College (BA), Harvard Law School (JD), Harvard Divinity School (MTS), and New College, Oxford (DPhil). At Oxford he studied under John Finnis and Joseph Raz. - Sarah Coakley
Sarah Coakley is an Anglican systematic theologian. Her training was at New Hall, Cambridge and Harvard Divinity School; her Ph.D. is from the University of Cambridge. She has taught in the United Kingdom at Lancaster University and the University of Oxford. Since 1993, she has taught at Harvard Divinity School, serving as the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Professor of Divinity since 1995. - Marian Walsh
Marian Walsh was born in Roslindale, Boston, Massachusetts. She is a State Senator representing several cities and towns in Suffolk and Norfolk counties. She has served six terms in the Massachusetts State Senate and was promoted to the position of Assistant Majority Leader in early 2003. She was the first woman from her district to serve in both the House of Representatives and in the State Senate. - Harold W. Attridge
Harold W. Attridge has been the Dean of the Yale Divinity School since 2002. His educational background includes a A.B. from Boston College, a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He was a fellow of the Jesus Seminar. - Forrester Church
Frank Forrester Church IV (born September 23, 1948 in Palo Alto, California) is a leading Unitarian Universalist minister, author, and theologian. He is Minister of Public Theology of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City having served as Senior Minister until late 2006. - Talal Eid
Imam Talal Eid, Arabic: إمام طلال عید; is an Imam from Quincy, Massachusetts. He was born in 1951 in Lebanon. He studied at al-Azhar University in Cairo. In 2005, he received his Doctor of Theology degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the spiritual Director of the Islamic Center of New England from 1982-July 30, 2005, also serving as the Imam of Quincy Mosque. - Dana McLean Greeley
Dana McLean Greeley (July 5 1908 - June 13 1986) was a Unitarian minister, the last president of the American Unitarian Association and, upon its merger with the Universalist Church in America, was the founding president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Greeley received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1933 and was ordained by his home parish church in Lexington, Massachusetts. - Samuel Atkins Eliot
Samuel Atkins Eliot, (great-grandfather of Thomas Hopkinson Eliot) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Eliot was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 5, 1798. He attended the Boston Latin School; graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1820. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1834-1837; Mayor of Boston 1837-1839; served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1843-1844. - William Appleton Lawrence
William Appleton Lawrence was elected third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts (1937-57). William's father, William Lawrence, was the seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts (1893-1927). Bishop Lawrence was the grandson of the notable abolishionist Amos Adams Lawrence and a member of an influential Boston family, founded by his great-great-grandfather and American revolutionary, Samuel Lawrence. - Jim Mitulski
Rev Elder Jim Mitulski has pastored within the gay affirming Metropolitan Community Church since 1983 and was appointed Elder serving the denomination's Region 2 in November 2005. - John White Chadwick
John White Chadwick, A.M. (1840-1904) was an American clergyman of the Unitarian Church. He was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1864 from Harvard Divinity School. He was a shoemaker early in his life, yet he became known as one of the leading preachers of his denomination. Some of his discourses, literary works, and publications were extensively read. - Jeffrey L. Seglin
Jeffrey L. Seglin is an American journalist and writer. Seglin writes "The Right Thing," a weekly column on general ethics syndicated by the "New York Times" Syndicate. In the column, he regularly offers solutions to ethical dilemmas posed by readers who write to him at rightthing@nytimes.com. Seglin is the author of "The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today’s Business". - Tom Chick
Tom W. Chick (b. 1966) is an American television and movie actor, and games journalist. Among fans, his best known TV roles are as Oscar's lover Gil in the US version of "The Office" and the hard-hitting reporter Gordon in "The West Wing". As a writer, his most notable columns are the "Shoot Club" series hosted on his own website, and game reviews in magazines such as Computer Gaming World. - Lester Mondale
The Reverend Robert Lester Mondale (May 28, 1904-August 19, 2003) was an American Unitarian minister and Humanist. He was the only person to sign each of the three Humanist Manifestos of 1933, 1973 and 2003. - John Weiss
John Weiss (1818-79) was an American author and clergyman, as well as a noted abolitionist. Weiss was born in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1837 and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1843, then preached at Watertown and New Bedford, Massachusetts About 1856, failing health compelled him to abandon preaching and travel to regain his health. In 1859, he resumed his work in the Unitarian church at Watertown, remaining there until 1970. - Edward John Carnell
Edward John Carnell (1919-1967) was a prominent Christian theologian and apologist, was an ordained Baptist pastor, and served as President of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He was the author of nine major books, several of which attempted to develop a fresh outlook in Christian apologetics. He also wrote essays that were published in several other books, … - Joel Hastings Metcalf
Joel Hastings Metcalf was an American astronomer. Metcalf graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1892. He served as a Unitarian minister in Burlington, Vermont and then later in Taunton, Massachusetts, Winchester, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine. He discovered or co-discovered several comets, including 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf and 97P/Metcalf-Brewington; he also discovered a number of asteroids. - Frederic Dan Huntington
Frederic Dan Huntington (in some sources Frederick) (May 28, 1819 - July 11, 1904), American clergyman, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central New York, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts. - Frederick Henry Hedge
Frederick Henry Hedge (1805-August 21, 1890) was a New England Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist. He was a founder of the Transcendental Club and active in the development of Transcendentalism. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hedge traveled to Germany and studied in music before graduating from Harvard in 1825. - Tom Chappell
Thomas Matthew "Tom" Chappell (born 1943) is an American businessman and manufacturer and co-founder of Tom's of Maine in 1970. Chappell graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut with a B.A. in English in 1966. Chappell and his wife, cofounder Kate Chappell, moved to Kennebunk, Maine in 1968 to raise their family. Chappell earned a Masters in Theology at Harvard Divinity School in 1991. He is active in the Episcopal Church of Maine, … - Frank Schulman
Rev. Dr. Jacob Frank Schulman was a U.S. Unitarian Universalist minister, theologian, and author of several books. He held numerous degrees, including a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma, an S.T.B. from Harvard Divinity School, a D.Phil., M.A., and Minister Emeritus Scholar from Oxford University, and an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School. Schulman was the author of several theological and historical books, … - Stephen Charles Mott
Stephen Charles Mott (born April 9 1940) is one of the few pioneers among Evangelical Christians in the USA in the teaching and academic study of social ethics since the early 1970s. He has a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree from Wheaton College, Illinois, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he studied under New Testament scholar Krister Stendahl and social ethicist James Luther Adams. - Edmund Sears
Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876) was a Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th century liberal Protestants. Sears is known today primarily as the man who penned the words to "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" in 1849. Sears originally wrote the song as a melancholy reflection on his times while a minister in Wayland, Massachusetts, USA. However, "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" has since become a popular Christmas carol. - Spencer Reece
Spencer Reece is a poet who lives in Juno Beach, Florida. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University, he received a M.A. from the University of York (UK), and a M.T.S. from the Harvard Divinity School. His 2004 book "The Clerk’s Tale", was published by Mariner Books. The title poem describes a day in the life at a store in the Mall of America; Reece had worked for many years as a sales associate at Brooks Brothers. - Rodney L. Petersen
Rodney Lawrence Petersen is an American scholar in the area of history, ethics, and religious conflict. He moved to the Boston area from Switzerland in 1990 and currently works as the Executive Director of the Boston Theological Institute. In addition to this work with the BTI, he teaches in both the member schools and overseas. - William B. Oden
William Bryant Oden is a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1988. He was born 3 August 1935 in McAllen, Texas. He is married to Marilyn Brown Oden, the author of over eight books. They have four children and four grandchildren. - Joseph Henry Allen
Joseph Henry Allen (August 21, 1820 - 1898) was a Unitarian scholar, born in Northborough, Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard College in 1840; and at the Divinity School in 1843. He was pastor at different places. He was the author of "Hebrew Men and Times" (to the Christian era), (Boston, 1861); "Christian History in its Three Great Periods", (1) Early Christianity, (2) The Middle Age, (3) Modern Phases (three volumes, … - Charles Carroll Everett
Charles Carroll Everett (June 19, 1829 - October 16, 1900), American divine and philosopher, was born in Brunswick, Maine. He studied at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1850, after which he proceeded to Berlin. Subsequently he took a degree in divinity at the Harvard Divinity School. From 1859 to 1869 he was pastor of the Independent Congregational (Unitarian) church at Bangor, Maine. - William Lawrence, 1850-1941
William Lawrence, (1850-1941), was elected as the 7th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts (1893-1927). William Lawrence was the son of the notable abolitionist Amos Adams Lawrence and a member of the influential Boston family, founded by his great-grandfather and American revolutionary, Samuel Lawrence. His grandfather was the famed philanthropist Amos Lawrence.
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