1650

Overlooked by History: The Gender Equation

                                                                         Arrived in Boston
       
           With William & fifteen children, 1634                                                        With Simon, 1630            

              'Heretical Beliefs'                                                                         Colonial Life in Verse

                                                                        The Maternal Role
                      Mother, Mid-wife                                                                                Mother, Good Wife

                 Lay-Pastor to Women                                                                      Lay-Minister of Beauty

             A New Colony: Rhode Island                                                   A New England Voice in London

                                                                       Feminists of Their Day           
        An Independent Mind                                                                               A Poet of Vision & Humility
 
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             'Courageous exponent of civil liberty & religious toleration'                                                    I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits;
              "Those who have God's grace in their hearts cannot go astray."   AH                                  A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong. For such despite they cast on female wits.
              'Persuasive Advocate of the Right of Independent Judgement'                                               If what I do prove well, it won't advance; They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.  AB                                                                                                                                                                                              

1830

The "Face-off' between Trinitarians & Unitarians

Poet, Translator, Teacher                                Historian, Keeper of Adams Family Flame

Developed language of Unitarian theology                            Scholar of Colonial History

Covert 'liberal Christian'                                                   First Presidential Library

Exemplar of the 'Boston Religion'                                      Politician in Elective Offices

Spiritual Truths - Social Worship                             Ambassador & Representative to Europe  



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                    A zealous student of Biblical research, he was                                                                                                                                                                      As Legislator & Diplomat,
                    the  Author of Devout and Beautiful Hymns                                                                                                                                                                          he nurtured the growth of the Nation

1860 

                                                                                                                                                                 
   
                                                                                  Builders & Inhabitors of 'Elegant Boston'


                                                 
     
               A Cathedral in the Back Bay                                  Philanthopists for a Transcendental Hub
     
                     A Rebirth of Gothic Sensibility
             
                          Images, Memorials

                     John Cotton's Pulpit &Tomb

              A Christian Hymnal & Prayer Book                     
                  
                 



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1880

                                                              A Social Ministry



               South Congregational Church                                          Executor, Nonprofit Organizations

                  Lend-a-Hand Society
                                                                                                                                                             
                   Chaplain to the United States Senate


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                                                                                                                                                                         Nationwide Benefactor:
                                                                                                                                                                         Libraries, Colleges
             
                 He engaged his members in works of Christian Charity.
                 In his wisdom, purity and virtue he secured their love and admiration.

                 "Look up, not down. Look forward, not back.                              
                  Look out, not in; and lend a hand"    EEH                                                                                                                                                   MORE

1910

                                                                                                                           Humanism                                                                                                                                                     




          Born of Missionaries in India                                                                     20th Century Boston

            Religious Humanist                                                                        Church Mergers & Trustees

               Spiritual Guide to Community                                               WW I, Depression, WW II

                Covenant Preamble                                                                       ‘May Meetings’ of AUA

             Grand Old Man of US Unitarian Pulpits                                        Organists Foote & Zeuch

1950


A Model Of Progressive Partnership

         
         


           Youth in Canada                                                         Lay Proprietors for the Society

              Minister's Son                                                            Models of Trusteeship

                   A Minister to Boston                                                     Deed of Trust

                 Church Fire of 1968                                             Built a New Meeting House
                                                                         
 A Theology of Diversity & Rights                                               Holding Fast the Traditions


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