Topic: Religious History

“The Christian in Me,” by Rev. Dr. Bruce Clark Clear

Service video Today’s sermon reading, “The Christian in Me,” is the last, in a series of explorations of three different belief systems found within UU churches, written by Rev. Dr. Bruce Clear. Even though we may not call ourselves, individually, Christian, our denomination has grown from the Christian tradition. The largest majority of UU church … Continue reading “The Christian in Me,” by Rev. Dr. Bruce Clark Clear

“Olympia Brown (A Portrayal by Rev. Dr. Janet H. Bowering)

Service video Olympia Brown (1835-1926) dedicated her life to opening doors for women. Among only a handful of women to graduate from college, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Antioch in 1860 and three years later became the first woman graduate of a regularly established theological school at St. Lawrence University. She was … Continue reading “Olympia Brown (A Portrayal by Rev. Dr. Janet H. Bowering)

“Preserving Our Shared Legacies,” by Eugene Moy

Service Video Riverside’s historic Chinatown site at Brockton and Tequesquite has been a subject of public negotiation since the 1980’s. The site has been designated as a significant landmark at the city, county, state, and federal levels, yet there is a constant threat to the archaeological resources on site, and to its future as a … Continue reading “Preserving Our Shared Legacies,” by Eugene Moy

“Easter before 70 CE: Giving Jesus a Proper Burial At Last,” by Dr. Lee Greer

For the first decades after Galilean radical Jesus of Nazareth was executed for sedition by the Romans, the earliest followers of Jesus did not believe in a bodily resurrection as later taught. Textual and archaeological evidence show that the earliest Palestinian Jewish Christianity and the competing early Pauline Christianity disagreed about many things, but both … Continue reading “Easter before 70 CE: Giving Jesus a Proper Burial At Last,” by Dr. Lee Greer