"In celebration of the scholarship of Educators in the 21st Century, we presented a teaching moment on the history of religious education leadership in Unitarian Universalism. Did you know these interesting facts?" (Michelle Favreault)

1. A Unitarian and a Universalist, this teacher/activist wrote the 1856 curriculum Scripture Catechism for Sabbath Schools to "furnish answers, in the richest language of the Bible, to the prominent questions of religious interest." The author later "saved California for the Union" and there are mountains named for him in New Hampshire and California. Thomas Starr King
2. She was born in 1876 and was ordained in 1959 (at the age of 82) to Unitarian ministry. This educator is famed as "the principal figure in the remaking of liberal religious education." Her experiments in the Church School of the Riverside Church in New York were reflected in the important New Beacon Series in Religious Education. Sophia Lyon Fahs
3. This editor of the Transcendentalist journal The Dial, wrote Woman in the 19th Century, taught at the Temple School in Boston and the Green Street School in Providence and created a model of education for women through "Conversations" during the 1840s before going to Italy as a journalist and social reformer. Margaret Fuller
4. In an essay called "Music as a Means of Grace," this teacher of "the prophet hood of all believers" and the "examined faith" wrote: "No theologian in the history of Christianity has given a higher place to music than did Martin Luther...Luther even ventured to set forth a theology of music. Moreover, he helped to maintain the study of music as an integral part of education. 'Those who have mastered this art are made of good stuff; they are fit for any task...a teacher must be able to sing; otherwise I will not so much as look at him.'" James Luther Adams
5. While on his first visit to a Unitarian Church in the 1950s, he was recruited to teach Sunday school. He later went on to lead the educational programs of a congregation in Providence, Rhode Island. He is a scholar of oppression, a lecturer, and the author of Is God a White Racist? William R. Jones
6. The Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA) is a dynamic fifty-two year-old professional organization. The book Giving Birth to Ourselves: A History of the Liberal Religious Educators Association 1949-1999 by Joan Goodwin details the growth and change of this organization working to "share the hopes, dreams and struggles." Today LREDA has more than 550 members and is working to develop professional standards, educate lay leadership in our congregations, and build alliances.
7. This educator had trouble recruiting teachers for the Sunday school, prior to his work with Community Church. In a 1906 church announcement he wrote, "I have no hesitation in saying that the greatest need of our Society at present is in the Sunday School...I shall be glad to talk with any persons who are willing to enter upon this important work, and shall hope for an immediate response to this appeal." According to his biographer, Carl Herman Voss, "He stumbled along with the Sunday School and never found the help he needed." John Haynes Holmes
8. "The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity" was preached at the ordination of Charles Shackford in 1841 by this educator who studied twelve languages and led schools in Lexington and Watertown, Massachusetts. Theodore Parker
9. In the mid-1960s she was the curriculum editor of the UUA Religious Education Department based in Berkeley, California. Ordained a Universalist minister in 1929, she was in fellowship with both the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association. This teacher served congregations in Michigan, Massachusetts, Maine and, Vermont. From 1946 to 1957, she taught psychology at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dorothy Tilden Spoerl
10. Many prominent educators have served congregations in Cleveland, Ohio and contributed to the life of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Who did/does what?

1. Wayne Arnason
2. Marjorie Skwire
3. Greg Stewart
4. Todd Strickland
5. Margaret Corletti
6. Angus MacLean

1 - former president of Liberal Religious Youth and member of the LREDA Grant Committee
2 - served as president of LREDA, 1987-89
3 - wrote about "Way Cool Sunday School" in the Essex Conversations
4 - led the Starr King Gospel Choir
5 - member of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee
6 - served as professor of religious education and dean at the Theological School of St. Lawrence University