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Boston: Beacon Press, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xii, 298, [2] pages. Illustrations. The Sisterhood's Biographies, Abbreviations, Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ is price clipped. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads December 1991 To Lynn A true sister and prophet. In 2001 we'll write the authentic history of our prophetic sisterhood! Love, Cyn [This may or may not have been signed by the author!]. Cynthia Tucker is Professor of English at the University of Memphis and Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Unitarian Universalist History. Cynthia Tucker is a woman who has long been devoted, in her own words, to "giving abridged or interrupted voices their due.'' Her primary focus has been on researching, revealing and showcasing the lives and artistic accomplishments of other women, including women marginalized by race or disability. She has been a "behind the scenes" advocate and mentor for many women, devoting much of her life to showcasing women's experiences through written and visual expression. Cynthia came to feminism naturally. She was born in New York City and raised in a nearby New Jersey suburb. Her mother, an underpaid bilingual stenographer, was a lifelong card-carrying member of NOW who gave her daughters inaugural subscriptions to Ms. Magazine. Her father always believed in the abilities of women and treated them with respect. Cynthia Grant Tucker, a professor of English, has often said that her "real education began" only after she earned a doctorate in comparative literature and started to teach in the urban Midsouth during an era of social upheaval. As the Vietnam War and the human rights movements expanded her frames of reference, her academic focus shifted and settled in women's studies, planting a personal interest in writing biography as a way to rectify history's sins of omission and give silenced stories a voice. Committed to sharing her expertise with lifelong learning communities, she has offered her life-writing workshops at the Iowa Writing Festival, the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, the Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, the Asilomar Conference Center in central California, the Ferry Beach Park Conference Center in Maine, and the Center for Independent Living in Memphis. No Silent Witness is Tucker's fifth book. Preceding it were Kate Freeman Clark: A Painter Rediscovered; Healer In Harm's Way: Mary Collson, A Clergywoman in Christian Science; Prophetic Sisterhood: Liberal Women Ministers of the Frontier, 1880-1930; and Spirited Threads: The Art and Writing of Patricia Roberts Cline. In the United States, the Unitarian movement began primarily in the Congregational parish churches of New England, which were part of the state church of Massachusetts. These churches, whose buildings may still be seen in many New England town squares, trace their roots to the division of the Puritan colonies into parishes for the administration of their religious needs. In the late 18th century, conflict grew within some of these churches between Unitarian and Trinitarian factions. In 1805, Unitarians gained key faculty positions at Harvard. In 1819 William Ellery Channing preached the ordination sermon for Jared Sparks in Baltimore, outlining the Unitarian position. The American Unitarian Association was founded as a separate denomination in 1825. By coincidence and unknown to both parties, the AUA was formed on the same day—May 26, 1825—as the British and Foreign Unitarian Association. In the 19th century, under the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson (who had been a Unitarian minister) and other transcendentalists, Unitarianism began its long journey from liberal Protestantism to its more pluralist form. Unitarian Universalism (otherwise referred to as UUism or UU) is a liberal religious movement characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning". Unitarian Universalists assert no creed, but instead are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth. Unitarian Universalists do not have an official, unified corpus of sacred texts but rather draw inspiration and guidance from the Six Sources: personal experience, prophetic utterances, world religions, Jewish and Christian teachings, humanist teachings, and spiritual teachings. Unitarian Universalist congregations include many atheists, agnostics, deists, and theists and have churches, fellowships, congregations, and societies around the world. The roots of Unitarian Universalism can be traced back to Protestantism and liberal Christianity, more specifically to Unitarianism and Christian universalism. Unitarian Universalists state that from these traditions comes a deep regard for intellectual freedom and inclusive love. Congregations and members seek inspiration and derive insight from all major world religions.
