The Benevolent Fraternity of Unitarian Churches records
The papers of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches (1834-1962) constitutes 2.5 linear inches. The largest part of the collection is annual reports dating from 1901 to 1962 (with gaps). There are also four early discourses on the organization by leading BFC members (including Joseph Tuckerman). In a...
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| 351 | |a Arranged in four series: Series I. BFC discourse. Series II. BFC annual reports. Series III. Our Fraternity bulletins. Series IV. United Universalist Urban Ministry pamphlet | ||
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| 520 | |a The papers of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches (1834-1962) constitutes 2.5 linear inches. The largest part of the collection is annual reports dating from 1901 to 1962 (with gaps). There are also four early discourses on the organization by leading BFC members (including Joseph Tuckerman). In addition, there a number of newsletters entitled "Our Fraternity Bulletin" covering the period from 1931 to 1941. Also included is a pamphlet issued by the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry in 1997 | ||
| 524 | |a Benevolent Fraternity of Unitarian Churches records, CC 21, Simmons College Archives, Boston, Mass | ||
| 540 | |a Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the College Archivist | ||
| 541 | |a Donald Moreland |c gift, 1988, 1989. School of Social Work, transferred |d 1991. |e 1998.046 | ||
| 545 | |a In 1826, Joseph Tuckerman, a Unitarian minister, began a "mission to the poor" under the aegis of the American Unitarian Association. Tuckerman believed that religious leaders had a duty to visit and counsel the needy, the sick, and the incarcerated, regardless of religious affiliation or instruction. He called for a "ministry at large; a ministry whose object it shall be to seek out those, who, to be found, must be sought..." In 1834, the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches (BFC), an association of Boston Unitarian churches, was formed in large part to formalize and centralize Tuckerman's Ministry At Large. The BFC also provided free chapels within the city, in accordance with Tuckerman's belief that all socio-economic classes of Christians should have a place to worship. The BFC also upheld Tuckerman's vision of social change through the promotion of self-reliance rather than charity. At some point between 1911 and 1914 (sources are not clear), the BFC changed its name to the Benevolent Fraternity of Unitarian Churches. The organization continued its operation with the same philosophy into the twentieth century, and still thrives today working under the name of the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry, located at 110 Arlington Street in Boston | ||
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