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The following is a list of famous sermons and other documents by ministers and other historical figures that have impacted Unitarianism. They serve to illuminate the theology, history, and rich tradition of the Unitarian faith. Click on the underlined title to go to the full sermon.

"The Conversion of John Murray" - excerpt from "The Life of Murray"
The Universalist pioneer's testimony, following a meeting with a Universalist woman.

"Resistance to Civil Government" - by Henry David Thoreau
"I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically."

"An Act for establishing Religious Freedom [I779], passed in the Assembly of Virginia in the beginning of the year 1786" - by Thomas Jefferson

"Shall the Fundamentalists Win" - by Harry Emerson Fosdick
This Sermon, given by American Baptist Minister H. E. Fosdick while serving the First Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1922, started a year long controversy in that city between the fundamentalists and the modernists. Fosdick makes his case that the Fundamentalist Christian movement that was sweeping the nation at the time should not be allowed to close the door of Christendom to those that hold more liberal Christian views. He argues that the expansion of human knowledge is not something in conflict with religion, but in concert with it.

"Reason the Only Oracle of Man" - by Ethan Allen
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"The Age of Reason" - by Thomas Paine
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"On the Religion of Deism Compared to the Christian Religion" - by Thomas Paine
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