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The Cost of Church
by Mike Roberts, Church Historian Inflation is a fact of life. Prices and wages rise. A look at some of the expenses recorded in archived church financial statements helps to illustrate how much prices have been inflated over the last 150 years. It also gives an indication of what types of expenses the First Universalist…
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Insights from Old Orders of Service
Determining the issues of the day from orders of service from 1965.
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Remnants of Universalism
This articles has photographs of buildings and other evidence of what was once the widespread Universalist religion in southwest Ohio.
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Welcoming Congregation Survey, 2003
In 2003, the congregation’s Welcoming Congregation Committee published the results of an anonymous survey regarding people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender.
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Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in April, 1915, at The Hague. Among the 1136 women from 12 nations, were Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch, a Boston Unitarian.
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Phineas, Abel, Jenny and Us
The First Universalist Church of Cincinnati was helped out of financial difficulties by P.T. Barnum.
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Heritage History at the UUA Headquarters
A stone tablet at the Unitarian Universalist Association headquarters in Boston includes the names of past Universalist Church General Superintendents. One of these was Robert Cummins, who was once minister of our church.
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Rev. Raymond John Baughan
Raymond John Baughan had a remarkable 53-year career as a Universalist and eventually Unitarian Universalist minister.
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Plum Street Church
In 1853, our congregation moved to a new location at Plum Street, Cincinnati. This article talks about the move and about the common practice of “selling” pews to finance a church.
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The 100th Anniversary Editorial
The 100th anniversary of our congregation was celebrated in an article in the Cincinnati Post.
