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Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Antoinette Brown Blackwell spent her entire life challenging the limits placed on women in American society and American church life. She was the first woman ordained in the United States, and the probably the first woman ordained to any Western church in the modern era....
Blackwell MP3: To find out more about this remarkable woman, listen to this podcast
Thanks to John Simon for narrating. Script written by Peggy Bendroth.
Applegate's Beecher Lecture
Debby Applegate visited Boston last fall to present her lecture, “Henry Ward Beecher and Three Things Never to be Discussed in Polite Company: Religion, Sex, and Politics,” based on her book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. The event was co-sponsored by the Congregational Library and the Old South Church in November 2007. Thanks to Ken and Suze Campbell and Evan Shu for providing this content.
Lemuel Haynes
Listen to a description of the career of Lemuel Haynes, black Congregational preacher, scholar, and Revolutionary war soldier.
Taylor on Stiles and Statistics
Rick Taylor has delved into the history of Congregational calculations to discover why Ezra Stiles' prediciton of massive denominational growth never came to pass. In his lecture, "Congregationalism's Biggest Mistake: Reasons Why There Aren’t Seven Million Congregationalists", he explores the perils of optimism and how sometimes the numbers can even fool the statistician.
