The light we kindle is set in the lamp of our history.
We inherit this free faith from the brave and gentle, fierce and outspoken, hearts and minds that have come before us.
Let us be worthy inheritors of this faith, and through our good works, pass it boldly to a new generation.
~ Rev. Audette Fulbright (All Souls Associate Minister 2016-2023)
Past Events
For Upcoming Events sponsored or co-sponsored by the Historical Society,
check the All Souls website calendar.
Past Historical Society Events
203rd Anniversary Weekend, November 18-20, 2022.
Dinners-in-homes on Friday evening; Anniversary Sunday, November 20.
The Bellows Lecture, November 13, 2022
Professor Lydia Ciollo: “Strange Bedfellows? Henry David Thoreau and Unitarianism"
Book Talk, given at our Annual Meeting, October 16, 2022
Robert K. Sutton: "Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era"
The Channing Lecture, May 22, 2022
Rev. Natalie Fenimore: "Widening the Circle to Welcome the Future"
The Bellows Lecture, Nov. 14, 2021
Dr. Christopher Cameron: "Unitarianism, African Americans and Abolitionism"
Sanctuary Tour, Oct. 31, 2021
Laura Pederson: Tour of the All Souls Sanctuary
History Talk, Sept. 19, 2021
Laura Pedersen: "Herman Melville's Unitarian Compass"
The Bellows Lecture, Nov. 22, 2020
Dr. Bernard Unti: "Henry Bergh: Animal Advocate, New Yorker, Unitarian and Riddle of the 19th Century"
Recording available here and bibliography
The Bicentennial Lecture, Nov. 13, 2019
Professor Linn Carey Mehta: "Catharine Sedgwick, Herman Melville and All Souls"
The Channing Lecture, Jan. 2019:
Rev. John Buehrens: "Conflagration: How Transcendentalists sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender and Social Justice"
All Souls 175th Anniversary Service, 1994