Past Minns Lectures

  • 2011-
    2023
  • 1995-
    2011
  • 1987-
    1994
  • 1976-
    1985
  • 1964-
    1975
  • 1954-
    1963
  • 1945-
    1953
  • 1942-
    1944

2011-2021

2022—2023

Rev. David Breeden, Ph.D.

Three Paths, One Way

2021 Fall

William F. Schulz

The Coming Good Society

2021 Spring

Anthony B. Pinn

Overlooked and Despised: Lectures on a Humanist Re-Thinking of Biblical Outsiders

2020 Fall

Qiyamah Rahman

Summoning Our Sheroes

2019 Spring

Colin Bossen

How Can Unitarian Universalists Respond to Populism?

Carl Scovel

A Tale of Two Kingdoms

2018 Spring

Samira K. Mehta

The Religiously Complex Congregation in the Religiously Complex World

2017 Spring

Rosemary Bray McNatt

Mark Morrison-Reed

Historical and Future Trajectories of Black Lives Matter and Unitarian Universalism

2016 Fall

Csaba Mezei

Norbert Racz

Maria Racz

Sources of Global Faith

2016 Spring

Stephen Kendrick

Kosmos: Remembering a Future for Unitarian Universalism

2014

Kate Braestrup

Men, Women & Children: Loving One Another in a Complicated World

2013

Andrea Greenwood

Naomi King

Peter Bowden

Young for Liberty: The UU Movement in the 21st Century

2011–2012

John Buehrens

Nate Walker

Paige Getty

William G. Sinkford

Meg A. Riley

Stephen Furre

Susan Ritchie

Matthew Johnson-Doyle

What Was and Is Required: Three Forums on the Renewal of Unitarian Universalism in the 21st Century

1995-2011

2011

Larry Peers

Rob Hardies

Marilyn Sewell

Rosemary Bray McNatt

Vanessa Southern

Christine Robinson

Kennneth Beldon

Composing Our Unitarian Universalist Future: Where Are We Now, What's Possible, What's Next?

2010

Paul S. Johnson

A Theology of Personal and Societal Transformation: The Bicentennial Legacy of James Freeman Clarke

2009

Susan Ritchie

Children of the Same God:
Unitarianism in Kinship with Judaism and Islam

2008

Mark W. Harris

Unitarian Universalism and Class
A Faith for a Few?

2007

Branden Thornhill-Miller

The Experience of Religious Varieties:
Psychology of Religion for the 21st Century

2006

Charlotte Gordon, poet and  biographer of Ann Bradstreet, speaking with  Rev. Rosemary Lloyd

Victoria Weinstein

Stephanie Paulsell and Eliza Blanchard

2005-
2006

Peter T. Richardson

2003

Kim K. Crawford Harvie

The Arlington Street Church

Earl K. Holt III

History of King's Chapel

Stephen Kendrick

History of First and Second Church of Boston

2002-
2003

Thomas Owen-Towle

Save the Males: Changing Men Changing the World

2001-
2002

Victor Carpenter

2000

Alice Blair Wesley

The Lay and Liberal Doctrine of the Church: The Spirit and the Promise of Our Covenant

1999

George Kimmich Beach

Richard Henry

1998

William Haney

1997

David Keyes

1996

Laurie Bushbaum

1995

Roy D. Phillips

1987-1994

1994

C. Scot Giles

1993

Thomas Mikelson

1992

Edward Lynn

1991

Neil Shadle

Max Gaebler

1990

Ted E. Tollefson

1989

Carl Scovel and Charles C. Forman

Carl Seaburg

1988

Eric Haugan

1987

Richard Allen

Richard Kellaway

Homer A. Jack

Koran Arisian

Erwin Gaede

1976-1985

1985

Philip Zwerling

John Nichols - 1986

Rhys Williams - 1986

1984

Earl K. Holt III

1983

Victor H. Carpenter

1982

Janos Erdo

1981

John Ruskin Clark

J. Frank Schulman

1980

Joseph A. Bassett

V. Emil Gudmundson

1979

Charles C. Forman

1978

Duncan Howlett

1977

Doris Hunter

1976

Carl Scovel

1964-1975

1975

Harry Hoehler

Virgil Murdoch

1974

Prescott B. Wintersteen

1972

Phillip Hewett

1971

Donald S. Harrington

Walter Donald Kring

1969

John MacLauchlan

1968

Harry H. Hoehler

Wallace Bush

1967

Ralph N. Helverson

1966

John W. Cyrus

1965

George Hunston Williams

1964

Jack Mendelsohn

1954-1963

1963

Lancelot A. Garrard

1962

Dorothy T. Spoerl

Seth R. Brooks

1961

H. Stewart Carter

1961

Wallace Robbins

1960

John F. Hayward

1959

John Kielty

Arthur Foote

1958

Robert T. Weston

Floyd Ross

1957

Jacob Trapp

1956

Joseph Barth

1955

Malcolm R. Sutherland, Jr.

Robert Storer

Dana McLean Greeley

1954

Palfrey Perkins

1945-1953

1953

Frederick May Eliot

1952

Leslie T. Pennington

1951

Charles E. Park

1950

James Luther Adams

1949

Alexander St. Ivanyi

1948

Ogden Vogt

1947

Charles E. Park

Frank O. Holmes

1946

J.A.C. Fagginger Auer

Harry Meserve

Arthur Foote

Alexander Winston

1945

Joseph H. Giunta

Howard Brooks

Edward Cahill (talk delivered by Stephen Fritchman)

Duncan Howlett

1942-1944

1944

Edwin Slacombe

Earl Davis

John H. Lathrop

Norman D. Fletcher

1943

Herbert Hitchen

A. Powell Davies

1942

Walton E. Cole