Abigail Roberts
The early 1800’s were a heady time in American religious life. After winning political...
Read MoreUCC Roots
Avoiding Christmas, Defending Liberty
In 1659 the Massachusetts Bay General Court officially banned Christmas celebrations; and...
Read More
A Woman Who Does the Unthinkable
It is a dark night in the 1840’s in Hampton, Virginia. A young woman, Mary Peake, finds...
Read MoreA scholar with a passion for justice
During the 1960s, issues of race and war and gender were churning. There had been two...
Read MoreOne Uppity Woman
As a midwife in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Anne Hutchinson knew the lives of women intimately....
Read More
Standing with Native Peoples
It was 1832. An attorney named John Sergeant stood before the United States Supreme Court...
Read More
The Challenge of Modern Biblical Scholarship
The young professor was less than thirty years old, but in 1870 he was invited to teach...
Read More
A German Reformed Leader with Many Gifts
As a young man, Henry Harbaugh worked as a carpenter, poet and teacher to earn money for...
Read More
The Spiritual Leader of Hawaii
It was Palm Sunday, the Sunday school students processed down the long aisle of the church...
Read More
A Place to Support and a Person to Remember
I was an anxious ten-year-old headed for summer church camp at Franklinton Center at Bricks,...
Read More
A Ministry to Church and Society
When an immigrant German pastor in the 1850s began a campaign to found a home for children...
Read More
She Changed Lives and Language
Ellen G. Gustin was a serious, prim and proper Victorian woman. But she was much more. Part of...
Read More
He Pushed us to do the Right
The civil rights movement was sweeping the country and the question for the UCC was not whether to...
Read More
A Man Who Helped Us Think Differently about Disabilities
In 1990, when Harold Wilke accepted a pen from President George H. W. Bush at the signing of...
Read More
Church-Going as a Witness
In 1923, while visiting his childhood home in Vermont, Vice President Calvin Coolidge learned...
Read More
Celebrating our German Reformed Tradition
The 1920s was an exciting decade for women. Women could vote. More and more women worked...
Read More
An Abolitionist, Teacher, Journalist, and Attorney
As a child, Mary Ann Shadd [Carey] had seen the face of fear and witnessed the struggles of...
Read More
Defending Access to Broadcasting
During the 1960s, the founding director of the UCC’s communication ministry, Everett Parker,...
Read More
The “Father of Oregon Schools” was a New England Congregationalist
It was October, 1847, when George and Nancy Atkinson, commissioned by the American Home...
Read More
Pioneering Woman Preacher
In March 1883 Emma Newman, alone in the middle of the prairie, was driving her one-horse buggy...
Read More