Unitarian Universalist Congregations

1812-1813: Andrews Norton is the Editor. Volume One begins with Norton's "A Defence of Liberal Christianity". Norton's later comments on the essay.

1813-1818. The founders of the journal were William Ellery Channing, Charles Lowell, Samuel Cooper, and Joseph Tuckerman, and James Walker -- all Unitarians. The first editor, Rev. Noah Worcester (resigned in 1819) had been dismissed from his pulpit at Thornton N.H. for his Unitarian views. Henry Ware, Jr., edited 1819-1823. Worcester's work was "speaking the truth in love" and his style more restrained than later contributors. With Ware, a new section of book reviews became a vehicle for sharp criticism of Calvinism as expressed by Congregational, Presbyterian and Baptist writers. Strong emphasis on religious duty and social reform. When writing about slavery, they advocated colonization rather than abolition.

1821-1832. These are the first volumes of the American Unitarian Association's official journal.

1824-1869: Continues Christian Disciple. Editors: 1824-25, John Gorham Palfrey; 1826-28, Francis Jenks. The majority of articles are unsigned, but according to the Unitarian Miscellany and Christian Monitor, most were written by Unitarians and defended Unitarianism. Continues below as Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany

1835-1841

1844-1857. Continues Christian Examiner.

1851-1938. The American Unitarian Association's weekly news magazine.

1852-1853

1870-1875. Created and edited by Edward Everett Hale. Old and New continued Christian Examiner and was absorbed by Scribner's Monthly in 1875.

1878-1885: "A Pamphlet Mission for Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion".

1886-1897. J.T. Sunderland started this monthly publication in Chicago and moved to Ann Arbor the next year. Sunderland served the Unitarian congregation in Ann Arbor and was secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference. In 1897, The Unitarian merged with Christian Union, and then was followed by Unitarian Work and World.

1898-1919

1908 only. Started by Rev. George H. Badget of the Unitarian Conference of the Middle States and Canada.

1911-1917. Founded when the publisher of The Unitarian objected to socialist ideas in editorials by Rev. John Haynes Holmes. The editors could no longer work with the publisher and started The Unitarian Advance.

1939-1957. Continues Christian Register.

1957-1961. Continues Christian Register, Unitarian

1820-1821. Abner Kneeland edited volumes 1-2.Two articles cover the origins of Universalism in Philadelphia, notices of new Universalist churches, and conversions of ministers of various denominations to Universalism. Lists baptisms, marriages, and deaths of interest to middle Atlantic state Universalists.

1820-1829. Editors Samuel C. Loveland and Robert Bartlett were Universalist ministers in Vermont. They were Restorationists and published writings in support of this position. The "religious intelligence" section reports on conventions, new congregations, preachers received, installations, and excommunications of "orthodox" church members for Universalist views.

1821-1823. A continuation of Christian Messenger. The editor is Abner Kneeland.

1827-1828. Universalist Magazine was founded in 1819 and was forerunner to Trumpet and Christian freeman and began a line of publications that continues today as UU World.

1828-1829

1830-1847

1832-1833

1833-1868

1839

1834-1840

1835-1847

Volume 1, no.1-12 (1839:Apr.-1840:Mar.)

1842

1843-1849

1844-1891. Continues The Expositor and Universalist Review

1849-1850

1870-1897

1874

1895-1922. Official publication of the Universalist Youth Fellowship

1897-1925

1921-1924

1954-1961

1961-1962

1962-1964

1965-1968

1970-1986

1987-Jul/Aug 2000

Sept/Oct 2000-Spring 2015

Current issues

Volumes 1-7 and 15-18 (1925-1941 and 1979)

Volumes 1-10 (1925-1954) – index for volumes 1 to 10 at end.

Volumes 1-6 (1959-1966)

Volumes 7 & 8 (1969-1975)

Volumes 19-23 (1980-1995)

Volumes 24-32 (1996-2008)

A quarterly journal that grew out of a meeting of the Transcendentalist Club. It was published 1840-1844. Editors: Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and George Ripley. This copy was owned and annotated by James Freeman Clarke.

Volumes 1870-1886. Published by the Free Religious Association in response to the 1866 meeting of the National Conference of Unitarian Churches in Syracuse, NY. See also Frederick Frothingham's Truth and Errors of Liberal Christianity and of the National Conference of 1870

1966-1967

1967- 2015