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Here we share with you a small group of the most helpful prayers which we have discovered and prized. The emphasis throughout is on world affirmation and reverence for life. Wherever necessary all these prayers of power have been degenderized. Archaic language is avoided. While the accent falls on twentieth century works of North America, many centuries and many continents are represented in this search for inner ways of making the world whole...

Charles Hartshorne is the Einstein of Religious thought.

Concise biographies of over 100 American Unitarians 1936-1961

Today there is a new movement critical of religion, "the new atheism" fostered by Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris. Harris says faith in god or gods is the most dangerous element of modern life, citing Islamic terrorism as well as Judeo-Christianity's growing weapons of mass destruction. Dawkins says the biblical Yahweh is "psychotic, " and religion is not only nonsense but a divisive and oppressive force. Dennett describes "the...

This book contains five parts, all relating to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From "The First Independent Thanksgiving" shows Harvard Square as the locus of the Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1774. to the original "History of Cambridge, " first published in 1801, was written by the Rev. Abiel Holmes. Long used by Cambridge school children, that text is here illustrated for the first time. "Harvard Honors Nelson Mandela" portrays the...

In James Luther Adams one finds the curious, and sometimes contradictory, combination of medieval saint, Renaissance humanist, Marxist critic, Enlightenment encyclopedist, sectarian enthusiast, and bourgeois compulsive. Yet he is, in many ways, a prototypical modern man, attempting to find, confess, and, where necessary, carve out a sense of meaning large enough to preserve us from the perennial idolatries and aimlessness that flesh is heir to.