Friday, November 9, 2007
P.T. Barnum, 'prince of humbugs' - and Universalist.
The Times has a fun piece on P.T. Barnum's Manhattan — there's even an audiotour you can download to your mp3 player to accompany your visit to sites associated with the brilliant marketer and self-proclaimed "prince of humbugs" — which makes this an ideal time to mention that Barnum was a devoted Universalist. Hank Peirce wrote about Barnum's Universalism and his support for the Universalist-sponsored Tufts University for UU World back in 2002; and here's Alan Seaburg's Dictionary of Unitarian Universalist Biography entry about Barnum.
("When Barnum took Manhattan," John Strausbaugh, New York Times 11.9.07; "P.T. Barnum: The greatest faith on Earth," Hank Peirce, UU World Sept./Oct. 2002; "P.T. Barnum," Alan Seaburg, Dictionary of Unitarian Universalist Biography)
Copyright © 2007 by Philocrites | Posted 9 November 2007 at 8:06 AM
Previous: Beliefnet launches new Unitarian Universalist forum.
Next: Want a role in reshaping UUA General Assembly?
Advertising
Advertising
Philocrites
"Obscure and literary!" (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
Commentary by Chris Walton on Unitarian Universalism, liberal Christianity, American religion, and liberal culture. Email me.
Promoting
- Unitarian Universalists
- About Unitarian Universalism
- Best of UU
- UUWorld.org (weekly)
- My guide to UU blogs
- Interdependent web
- UUpdates (aggregator)
- UUBlogSearch
- UU podcasts
- News (Google)
- News (Topix)
- News (uuworld.org)
- UUs in the media
1 comments:
Steven R:
November 9, 2007 07:04 PM | Permalink for this comment
and interesting enough the current issue of the UNIVERSALIST HERALD has a reprint of P.T. Barnium's essay "Why I am an Universalist"
the original tract was inprint from the Universalist Publishing House until at least the early 1940s.
Comments for this entry are currently closed.