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SUMMARY:Sacred Rebellion Curator's Tour
DESCRIPTION:This special tour of the CLA’s new in-person exhibition was hosted by New England’s Hidden Histories Project Director and Sacred Rebellion curator\, Dr. Tricia Peone. \nThe exhibition featured many treasures from the CLA’s collections: sermons\, books\, poems\, songs\, and letters created by Massachusetts Congregationalists during and after the American Revolution. These objects reveal how Congregationalists understood their moral obligations to each other and debated questions of liberty and loyalty. \nAttendees viewed the exhibition with the curator\, learned more about the objects on display\, and gained a deeper understanding of the stories behind the exhibition. The discussion also explored the unfinished business of the Revolution and the meaning of its legacy today. \nEmail any questions to programs@14beacon.org. \n  \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Tricia Peone joined the CLA in 2022 as the Project Director for New England’s Hidden Histories. Prior to joining the CLA\, she was a research scholar at Historic New England for the Recovering New England’s Voices project. She has also previously worked as the public programs director at New Hampshire Humanities\, a university lecturer teaching classes on the Salem witch trials\, early New England\, and public history\, and as a researcher for cultural heritage organizations. She holds a PhD in history from the University of New Hampshire with a specialization in the early modern Atlantic world and history of science. \n  \n\n \nFunded by the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/sacred-rebellion-curators-tours
LOCATION:Congregational Library & Archives\, 14 Beacon Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Revolutionary Stories,Sacred Rebellion,Tour
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SUMMARY:The Wars of the Lord: A Virtual Book Talk with Matthew J. Tuininga
DESCRIPTION:Over several decades beginning in 1620\, tens of thousands of devout English colonists known as puritans came to America. They believed that bringing Christianity to the Natives would liberate them from darkness. Daniel Gookin\, Massachusetts’ missionary superintendent\, called such efforts a “war of the Lord\,” a war in which Christ would deliver captive souls from Satan’s bondage. \nWhen puritan soldiers slaughtered hundreds of Indigenous men\, women\, and children at Fort Mystic in 1637\, during the Pequot War\, they believed they were doing God’s will. The same was true during King Philip’s War\, perhaps the bloodiest war in American history. The puritan clergyman Increase Mather described this conflict\, too\, as a “war of the Lord\,” a war in which God was judging the enemies of his people. \nIn his new book\, The Wars of the Lord\, Matthew J. Tuininga argues that these two “wars” are inextricably linked. Puritan Christianity\, he shows\, shaped both the spiritual and military conquests of New England from beginning to end. It is not only that the people who did these things happened to be Christians; it is that Christianity was the framework they used to guide\, interpret\, and defend every major act of peace or war. They made sincere efforts to treat Natives according to Christian principles of love and justice as they understood them\, and their sustained missionary efforts demonstrate how serious they were about saving Native souls. Yet they appealed to Christianity just as confidently when they subjugated\, enslaved\, or killed Native peoples in the name of justice. A mission they saw as spiritual\, peaceful\, benevolent\, and just devolved into a military conquest that was virtually genocidal. \nAttendees heard the story of how this happened from the perspective of those who lived it\, both colonists and Native Americans. \n  \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Matthew J. Tuininga is Professor of Christian Ethics and the History of Christianity at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids\, MI\, where he has taught since 2015. He is the author of Calvin’s Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church: Christ’s Two Kingdoms (2017).
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/wars-of-the-lord
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Congregational Story
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SUMMARY:Processing in Practice: A Hybrid Lunch & Learn with CLA Interns
DESCRIPTION:In this hybrid lunch and learn program\, our spring archives interns from Simmons University discussed their experiences processing CLA collections during the spring 2025 semester. \nRebecca Arabian discussed processing her first collections as a Library and Information Science student\, which include the St. Mark’s Social Center in Roxbury and the Leyden Congregational Church in Brookline. She shared how holding\, examining\, and reorganizing these materials has given her a new way of engaging with the past. \nOlivia Murphy shared how experiential learning at the CLA has enabled her to learn ArchivesSpace and employ DACS to process two separate collections: the Salem and Mariner’s Church records\, a small Boston church\, and the Diversity Club records\, a club for the women who worked at 14 Beacon Street. \nRebecca and Olivia’s presentations also provided glimpses into some of the unique materials they discovered while processing these collections during the spring semester. \n  \nSPEAKER BIOS \nRebecca Arabian is an MLIS student at Simmons University. She has enjoyed working with local church records this semester\, which have provided her with wonderful views into the rich history of the Boston area. \nOlivia Murphy is an MLIS student at Simmons University. She is an avid lover of history\, books\, and Boston\, and has been grateful for the opportunity to work at the Congregational Library & Archives this semester.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/processing-in-practice
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Archives,Lunch & Learn
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SUMMARY:Religion in the Lands That Became America: A Virtual Book Talk with Thomas Tweed
DESCRIPTION:This virtual book talk with University of Notre Dame historian Dr. Thomas Tweed\, celebrated the release of his book\, Religion in the Lands That Became America\, which provides a sweeping retelling of American religious history\, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information Age. \nUntil now\, the standard narrative of American religious history has begun with English settlers in Jamestown or Plymouth and remained predominantly Protestant and Atlantic. Driven by his strong sense of the historical and moral shortcomings of the usual story\, Tweed offers a very different narrative in this ambitious new history. He begins the story much earlier—11\,000 years ago—at a rock shelter in present-day Texas and follows Indigenous Peoples\, African Americans\, transnational migrants\, and people of many faiths as they transform the landscape and confront the big lifeway transitions\, from foraging to farming and from factories to fiber optics. \nSetting aside the familiar narrative themes\, Tweed highlights sustainability\, showing how religion both promoted and inhibited individual\, communal\, and environmental flourishing during three sustainability crises: the medieval Cornfield Crisis\, which destabilized Indigenous ceremonial centers; the Colonial Crisis\, which began with the displacement of Indigenous Peoples and the enslavement of Africans; and the Industrial Crisis\, which brought social inequity and environmental degradation. The unresolved Colonial and Industrial Crises continue to haunt the nation\, Tweed suggests\, but he recovers historical sources of hope as he retells the rich story of America’s religious past. \n  \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Thomas Tweed\, a historian of religion\, is the Harold and Martha Welch Professor of American Studies and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. A past president of the American Academy of Religion\, he is author or editor of nine books\, including Retelling US Religious History (California)\, Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History (Oxford)\, Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion (Harvard)\, Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford)\, and\, most recently\, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (Yale).
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/religion-lands-became-america
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:Sacred Rebellion: Behind the Scenes with the Curator
DESCRIPTION:This program took a look behind the scenes of the CLA’s new in-person exhibition\, Sacred Rebellion: Congregationalists in Revolutionary Massachusetts\, with curator Dr. Tricia Peone. \nBy the time the American Revolution began\, many Congregationalists had embraced a theological justification for war and revolution. They believed that God favored them and that their cause was a morally justified\, sacred rebellion. Through sermons\, books\, poems\, songs\, and letters\, Congregationalists shared their stories\, reflected on their moral obligations to each other\, and debated questions of liberty and loyalty. But consensus was elusive\, and implementation proved difficult and unsatisfactory to many\, especially those on the margins. \nAttendees learned more about what went into the creation of this exhibition (including the design of a new gallery for public exhibitions at the CLA)\, the themes which animated its arrangement\, how it contributes to our understanding of the American Revolution 250 years later\, and some of Dr. Peone’s favorite stories behind the objects on display. \n  \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Tricia Peone joined the CLA in 2022 as the Project Director for New England’s Hidden Histories. Prior to joining the CLA\, she was a research scholar at Historic New England for the Recovering New England’s Voices project. She has also previously worked as the public programs director at New Hampshire Humanities\, a university lecturer teaching classes on the Salem witch trials\, early New England\, and public history\, and as a researcher for cultural heritage organizations. She holds a PhD in history from the University of New Hampshire with a specialization in the early modern Atlantic world and history of science.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/sacred-rebellion-behind-scenes
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Revolutionary Stories,Sacred Rebellion
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