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The Broadwell Legacy to Religious Education
Church historian Mike Roberts writes about the Broadwell School, which was associated with our church on Essex Place and provided religious education.
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Two Appeals in 1948
Church historian Mike Roberts writes about appeals for church funding and for charity support in 1948.
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Salem Acres Community Church Belief System, 1978
Our predecessor church devoted the back page of its Orders of Service to a description of its belief system. The description varied slightly each week. This is the one distributed for the service of May 14, 1978.
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Church Auction a Success
Church historian Mike Roberts reports on our congregation’s first modern church auction in 2003.
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Turbulent Times Lead to Church Move
Church historian Mike Roberts reports on the factors that led our congregation to sell its building on Plum Street in 1890, prior to the move to our Essex Street location.
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Rev. Josiah Crosby Waldo
Church historian Mike Roberts writes about our congregation’s minister from 1828 to 1832.
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Church Budget from a Simpler Time
Church historian Mike Roberts shares our congregation’s budget from the 1933-34 fiscal year.
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Heritage’s Response to Anti-LGBT Ordinance Issue 3, 1993
On the ballot of the November 1993 election in the city of Cincinnati was Issue 3, which if passed would have prohibited the city from giving legal protection against discrimination to gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church gave its opinion opposing the measure.
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John Hilton
In 1922, the Cincinnati Enquirer identified John Hilton, a member of our congregation, as the father of public education in Cincinnati.
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Fire at Essex Place, 1901
As reported in an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer in 1901, a neighbor’s refusal to allow an organ tuner to use their telephone to report a fire in the church resulted in increased damage at our Essex Place building.
