There are many aspects of climate justice. Jim will explore one — climate-forced displacement in the U.S. and around the world and what actions we at Channing can take to address the issue.

As the presidential election looms, we’ll explore our Unitarian presidents. Among the religious denominations in the U.S., none has been more influential in electing presidents, given the size of our denomination. At the height of our membership in the 19th century — one million members — we elected 4, maybe 5, U.S. presidents. By contrast, the Catholics, with 40 million members have…

Dr. Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen, was a Unitarian minister who immigrated to the U.S. with the help of Benjamin Franklin after his home, church and lab were destroyed by a mob in England because of his pro-American and French Revolution advocacy and his Unitarian religious views. Once here, he continued his religious and political discourse joining Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, thus…