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- 5/18 new article: Clemens Taesler, by Erik Martínez Resly
- 4/25 new article: Charles Edwards Park, by Alan Seaburg
- 1/21 updated bio: Michael Servetus, by Peter Hughes
- 1/17 new article: Seth Chandler, by Alan Seaburg
- 11/17 new article: Von Ogden Vogt, by Alan Seaburg
- 10/22 new article: Henry Noble Couden, by Adam Bohanan
- 10/5 new article: Laelius Socinus (Lelio Sozzini), by Peter Hughes
- 9/17 new article: Charles Rhind Joy, by Alan Seaburg
- 9/02 new article: John Murray, by Peter Hughes
- 8/18 new article: Brooks Adams, by Wesley V. Hromatko
- 7/25 new article: Henry Wilder Foote II, by Alan Seaburg
- 6/20 new article: Stephen Hole Fritchman, by Charles Eddis
- 5/31 new article: Lon Ray Call, by Avery "Pete" Guest
- 3/28 new article: Marian Hooper Adams, by Wesley V. Hromatko
- 3/28 new article: Henry Brooks Adams, by Wesley V. Hromatko
- 2/15 new article: William Phillip Jenkins, by Charles Eddis
- 1/29 new article: Seth Curtis Beach, by Alan Ruston and Alan Seaburg
- 1/12 new article: James Joseph Reeb, by Alan Seaburg
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Brook Farm, The Humiliati, The Larger Hope, Restorationist Controversy, spiritualism,
St. Lawrence University, the Unitarian Controversy and Its Puritan Roots, and the Winchester Profession.
Clemens Taesler (1887-1969), a German, was a poet, Goethe scholar, popular lecturer, and minister who embraced a liberal theology. Influenced by British and America Unitarians, he adopted the term 'unitarian' in the 1920s to describe his unique conception of the relationship between God and the world. In the 1930s, he crossed paths with the Nazi party, an entanglement he would later regret. Taesler endured World War Two, losing friends, relatives, and fin . . . read more |