Read about this month's Spiritual Challenge.
Marking 200 years can be a challenge. We have been making plans. We hope over the last year you’ve seen Doug Parkhurst’s articles on our history in the Comment. We have a new quilt in the works thanks to the leadership of Marcia Brooker. Others … read more.
Special events and activities commemorating our congregation’s 200th anniversary are planned this fall leading up to our anniversary date which is actually December 9. On that date in 1822 a Universalist society was formed on Great Plain in Danbury, Connecticut. The present-day Unitarian Universalist Congregation of … read more.
Notes on Two Hundred Years (and More)
by Douglas H. Parkhurst
A century ago, around the time First Universalist Society of Danbury (now Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury) celebrated its 100th anniversary, Rev. Lewis B. Fisher, DD, wrote the following to begin his book Which Way? Dr. … read more.
Notes on Two Hundred Years (and More)
by Douglas H. Parkhurst
At its beginning American Unitarianism, or liberal Christianity as the faith was often known in its early manifestations, mostly by-passed Connecticut. This despite much of the state’s geographic proximity to the Congregational churches of eastern and … read more.
Notes on Two Hundred Years (and More)
by Douglas H. Parkhurst
More than a half-dozen church buildings in Danbury are local landmarks. Downtown examples include Lighthouse Ministries, West St. (constructed in the 1860s); St. James Episcopal, West St. (1860s and 70s); St. Peter Roman Catholic, Main St. … read more.
Notes on Two Hundred Years (and More)
by Douglas H. Parkhurst
The Rev. Harry Adams Hersey began his pastorate at First Universalist Church, now Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury (UUCD), on March 1, 1930. He would turn sixty years old in April. By then a parish minister … read more.
Notes on Two Hundred Years (and More)
by Douglas H. Parkhurst
…Continued from April 2023
Task Force 2001 did substantial work during the first months of 1997. The committee was organized to articulate a vision and chart a five year course of action for the Unitarian Universalist Society … read more.
Each of these services will be led by either in-person clergy or congregants.
Service starts at 10:00 AM at UU Danbury.
Also available also via Zoom email officemanager@uudanbury.org for Zoom link
Sunday, April 2nd The Art of Living Brought to you by regional UU young adults
Art is … read more.
by Douglas H. Parkhurst
This month’s article is adapted from the “Welcome” given by this writer at the bicentennial celebration service of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury, Connecticut, (UUCD) on
Sunday morning, October 16, 2022.
We are here on a very special Sunday. Today we … read more.
In 2022, UUCD Member, Doug Parkhurst wrote a series of articles, Notes on 200 Years (and More), in our monthly newsletters. To read – or print – a compilation of all these articles, commemorating our 200th anniversary please click here. If you have … read more.
