Biography of Frank Fay Eddy, Unitarian Minister

I've been doing some searching for older Unitarians and have found one in some online news clippings. This one in particular is more of the modern Unitarian-Universalist bent. In fact, he served in both Unitarian and Universalist churches.

Frank Fay Eddy, born in 1870 in Charlott, Michigan, the son of Dennis and Harriet J. Eddy (brother of Ion, b. 1858. He earned a Bachelors in Divinity from Tufts University on June 21, 1899, and was a Unitarian minister in Halifax, NS, Salt Lake City, Utah and Eugene and Salem, OR. (Which means Unitarians were either more adventurous or in great demand at the time.) The Universalist Register of 1898 lists him as a registered minister in that faith as of 1896 in Neenah, Wisconsin. He resigned as pastor of the First Universalist Church in Waterville, Maine in late 1898. By 1905, he was living in Salt Lake City. He was in Wisconsin in 1908, where he had a son, Pylter with his wife Fanny (Gefford) Eddy (who was from Canada) on Sept. 1, 1896.

The "Pacific Unitarian" in March, 1921 reported that he had not preached "for some time" but was returning to active ministry in March, 1921 as pastor of churches in Eugene AND Salem at once. That August, he attended the Harvard Summer School of Theology. That same journal notes that he "develops every possible point of contact with student life" with students from the nearby University of Oregon, "and chooses his sermon themes to meet the problems in the mind of the thoughtful collegean."

He left the ministry around 1927 to become a freelance writer and publicist. He also tried his hand at ranching for about ten years before working as a reporter for the Bellingham Herald in Washington State, according to an article in the Eugene Register-Guard on Oct. 31, 1929. In 1928, he ran in the Republican (!) primary for Assessor. Not sure if he won or not.

Eddy and his wife and both appear in the 1930 Census for Eugene, OR, and the 1940 Census puts him in Port Orford, Curry, OR. (with their grandson, Arthur, b. ca. 1923, living with them) He died on May 30, 1940. She is mentioned in news reports as late as March, 1958. They had a child in Oakland, ME on July 16, 1900, but it's unclear if that child survived.

A 1905 article in a Catholic paper takes him to task, though (in a rather snarky manner) saying of Eddy's preaching about nature, "There is no need of scripture to enter into the usual Unitarian sermon. Unitarianism does not pretend to be a religious religion. It would not be displeased to be called a nature religion. Reflecting that Rev. Eddy has only recently returned from the forests, it might not be amiss to call it an out-of-door religion.

Therefore we are not astonished at the confession he makes of the inadequacy of the Bible to reach out and grasp the sublime ideas of the man turned loose upon nature. It's true that the stones preach sermons and the mountains proclaim the majesty of God. But ... these literary treats fail to fulfill the command for divine worship on the Sabbath." That article, and others, nonetheless acknowledge that he was an amazing orator and great writer of sermons.

At Easter services in 1905, Eddy, preaching at First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City, said of Jesus' resurrection: "When the spirit fled from the broken body of Jesus on the cross, to my mind, his life ended as absolutely as that of any man who arrives at the helm of death, and ends what we call mortal life. Some here may believe in the resurrection of Christ as a fact of stupdendous significance in human history. Others, like myself, may look upon it as a fondly cherished legend and as an unsubstantial basis for religious truth. Some may hold to the theory of bodily resurrection and others to that of a purely spiritual resurrection. it all depends on the temper of our minds and the light in which we view the evidence. But it is possible for us to consider a rising of Christ that will involve us in no sea of difficulties, about which there can be no wide difference of opinion. I speak  of that spriit of life which we have learned to call Christ-like, which is countless ages older than Christ and has been lived by an innumerable host of noble men and women, pagan and Christian, since his death."

On the Apostle Paul, Eddy wrote (in the July 3, 1906 edition of the Deseret News) "I think of him a very much mistaken man, and I cannot but regard it as a misfortune to humanity that he succeeded in imposing his thought so mightily on the plastic early churches. The theology which was quarried out of the mine of Paul's thought is to my mind a misfortune. I certainly do not believe Paul to have been in any peculiar sense inspired. As for his conversion probably he had been long thinking about the new sect of Christians and on his way to Damascus suffered a sunstroke and superstition did the rest."

In one 1927 sermon, he spoke against American and British imperialism. Oh, how nothing changes. :-)

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Abbott Retained to Promote The Jesus Followers

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Abbott Public Relations Retained to Promote The Jesus Followers

NEW ENGLAND - Stephen Abbott of Abbott Public Relations, a New England-based Public Relations and Reputation Agency, will promote the Jesus Followers, a religious group seeking to form a church denomination within the next five years.

The Jesus Followers are a new organization, laying the groundwork to launch a movement dedicated to Jesus, the Anointed (that is, "Christ") - God's spokesman and Prophet. They plan to launch a revolutionary church dedicated solely to the revolutionary, relevant, timeless teachings of Jesus, and the God he revealed to the world through those teachings and his perfect life.

Along with maintaining an online presence for The Jesus Followers (who can be found on Facebook and their blog) Abbott has been actively writing sermons for the group and has entered the active ministry of The Jesus Followers to extend its mission.

Abbott said the group represents a unique counterpoint to current Christian denominations.

"The Jesus Followers approach Jesus as the sole voice to whom we must listen to obtain salvation and learn how to live," he said. "That alone makes The Jesus Followers unique and stand out as a special witness of Jesus, God’s Anointed One. Drawing attention to him as God's prophet and spokesman is also a different emphasis than many mainline Christians are used to. But there is a dire need for them, and the rest of the world, to hear these differing views, and that's what we will bring to them."

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Five Great Ways to Re-Boot Our Calendar

Is our calendar perfect? Few would argue that it is. The number of days in each month are uneven, its quarters are unequal, and it's impossible to determine when on which day any random date will fall.

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The Symmetry454 Calendar is a proposal by a Toronto university professor. It features four exactly equal quarters of 28-, 35- and 28-day months, making it easier to compare fiscal quarters. It's beautiful symmetry contrasts with the chaotic Gregorian.

The 13-month "Sol" Calendar updates an Old Idea - the 13- month year tied to the lunar cycle. This calendar's 13 months are all 28 days long, making it easy to remember the length of months. A leap year is added to the last month, December, and a new month, Sol, is added between June and July.

The New Earth Calendar is a bit of a hybrid - mixing the best elements of proposals like the Symmetry454 calendar and the 13 months of the Sol calendar.

Finally, the 30x11 Calendar is what its creator calls a "Gentle Update" of our current calendar. All of its months are 30 days long, except December, which rounds out the 365 or 366-day year with 35 or 36 days. It makes it incredibly easy to determine what day number each day on the calendar holds, and makes it easy to remember days.

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Caseworker Exposes Flaws in Welfare System

NEW HAMPSHIRE - Author Deb Shorter of New Hampshire worked in Human Services for a decade. This experience as a case worker provided her with valuable, first-hand insights into how the American Welfare System works - and how it doesn't.

Her first book, "Giving Away Your Tax Dollars - An Eye Into Welfare," delves into the twisted, turbulent and troubled world of the Welfare System, exposing who gets help, and who doesn't, and the reasons why. In the interview room of a caseworker, she hears client’s troubles and works her way through the government policies that determine if aid will be distributed.

"Readers will run the gamut of emotions as they read this book," she says. "They'll laugh, they'll cry, and they'll get angry. Then, they'll want to fix the system."

This entertaining and informative book offers ways to do just that, spelling out Ten Easy Solutions to America's budget problems within Human Services, especially Social Security.

Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1961, Deb moved frequently as a young girl, first to Newton New Hampshire, and when her parents separated, to Haverhill, MA. She likes to say, "I worked my way up the state and back into New Hampshire, and kept heading further north!" She now lives in New Hampshire's beautiful North Country with her husband Ron. She writes in lovely a cabin in the woods called "The Pen Den." She is a grandmother of seven children, six boys and one girl.

She loves to hear from her readers, and enjoys their reactions to her work.

"They are my enthusiasm," she says. "It's weird how so many people love the emotional roller coaster I send them on - and that is EXACTLY what I wanted!"

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Former Caseworker Rips the Mask Off Welfare Fraud in “An Eye into Welfare: Giving Away Your Tax Dollars”

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Former Caseworker Rips the Mask Off Welfare Fraud, Calls for Reforms in “An Eye into Welfare: Giving Away Your Tax Dollars”

Author Deb Shorter is proud to announce the publication of her first book, "An Eye Into Welfare - Giving Away Your Tax Dollars,” exposing the games, tricks and fraud used by many seeking welfare, and answers why some who truly deserve it are denied.

Shorter, who worked as a case worker for ten years, brings her many valuable, first-hand insights to the topic of welfare, which she considers in urgent need of reform.

In “An Eye Into Welfare,” Shorter delves into the twisted, turbulent and troubled world of the Welfare System, exposing who gets help, and who doesn't, and the reasons why.

In the interview room of a caseworker, she hears client’s troubles and works her way through the government policies that determine if aid will be distributed.

“Readers will run the gamut of emotions as they read this book,” she says. “They’ll laugh, they’ll cry, and they'll get angry. Then, they’ll want to fix the system.”

This entertaining and informative book offers ways to do just that, and spells out Ten Easy Solutions to America's budget problems within Human Services, especially Social Security.

Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1961, Shorter now lives in New Hampshire's beautiful North Country with her husband, Ron and two Red Bone Coonhounds. She writes in lovely a cabin in the woods called "The Pen Den." She is a grandmother of seven.

Shorter loves to hear from her readers, and enjoys their reactions to her work.

“They are my enthusiasm,” she says. “It’s weird how so many people love the emotional roller coaster I send them on - and that is EXACTLY what I wanted!”

An Eye Into Welfare: Giving Away Your Tax Dollars is available in an affordable print edition from Amazon Createspace for $12.99 at https://www.createspace.com/4067938

and as a Kindle eBook for $2.99 at http://amzn.com/B00AQ3KRRM. For more information, visit www.debshorter.com.

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