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Roan, Alex, Paige Ravenscraft

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Alex Roan is a 42 year old trans masc individual who uses he/him pronouns. He was originally from Stoughton, Massachusetts where he grew up with his family before moving to Central Maine for college and living in the Portland area through adulthood. Alex shares his experience with growing up in a Catholic family and finding himself as a trans person in college. He details what it was like to come out to his family, who was in denial at first but later in life became his biggest supporters.

Alex Roan is the founder of MaineTransNet. This interview captures the story …

Michaud, Jim, Angelli Bishop

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Jim Michaud, (he/him), was born in 1964. Jim is a local Mainer, born and raised in Lewiston, Maine. He was born into a middle-class family with his siblings, was raised Catholic, and even attended Catholic school in his earlier years. Since the late eighties, Jim has identified as a gay man. He is a USM alumnus and attended the USM Gay Men's Alliance, which was his first ever encounter participating in an LGBTQ-organized environment. Being proactive in his political activism, Jim annually attends the Pride Parades in Boston, New York, and Maine. He stresses the importance of creating open space …

Religion And Public Discourse: Principles And Guidelines For Religious Participants, 1998, Martin E. Marty, Larry Greenfield, David E. Guinn

Historical Documents - Combined

Park Ridge Center, Chicago, IL: A "Special Topics in Health and Faith" issue on religion and public discourse. Articles include:

• Religion and Public Discourse (Martin E. Marty) p. 3
• To Speak and Be Heard: Principles of Religious Civil Discourse (Martin E. Marty, Larry Greenfield, and David E. Guinn) p. 7
• Guidelines for Structuring Public Policy Discourse Involving Diverse People of Faith p.18
• Putting the Principles to Work (David E. Guinn) p. 21

Easter Sermon: A Carpenter In The Face Of Danger, Earl Clement Davis

Sermons, 1905-1919

This is from the bound collection—“bundle #5”—that includes sermons from January 2, 1910 to January 15, 1911.

A brief retelling of the last supper and Jesus' personal struggle in the Garden of Gethsemane. This is a moment Davis revisits repeatedly throughout his life, stating it as a "sublime moment in the life of a man, sublime moment in the history of humanity." Davis is concerned that the conventional ceremony, "the Lord's Supper," does not do justice to the power of that moment in history.

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An Unknown Sacrifice, Earl Clement Davis

Education

A seemingly unfinished bit of story about a son leaving home.

This is from a collection of manuscripts—mostly class papers— written while Davis was a student at Harvard Divinity School, 1902-1904. This manuscript is undated and not obviously connected to any specific class.

The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription. The bottom of each item page also features the primary document as an embedded pdf for browsing.

Transcription by Davis Baird. Item description based off writing and context provided by Davis Baird.

The Center, 1987, V2 N1, January, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

The Park Ridge Center, Park Ridge, IL: Issue of the publication from the Park Ridge Center - An Institute for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics, associated with Lutheran General Hospital. This issue features articles on Chinese traditional medicine, medical ethics, Florence Nightingale, and psychiatry.

Grounds For Faith In Religious Liberty, Earl Clement Davis

Manuscripts, Undated

A page of notes on this topic. It contains this quote from poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge "He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or the Church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself

The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription. The bottom of each item page also features the primary document as an embedded pdf for browsing.

Transcription by Davis Baird. Item description based off writing and context provided by Davis Baird.

Outline Of Points On English Bible, Earl Clement Davis

Manuscripts, Undated

A list of key dates from early post-Christ times until William Tyndale's execution in 1536; "From that day to this it has been less dangerous to translate the Bible."

The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription. The bottom of each item page also features the primary document as an embedded pdf for browsing.

Transcription by Davis Baird. Item description based off writing and context provided by Davis Baird.

Notes On Mutual Aid: A Factor In Evolution, By P. Kropotkin, Earl Clement Davis

Manuscripts, Undated

Fairly extensive notes on Peter Kropotkin's 1902 book, Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution, a seminal text which argues that communistic or socialistic organization as more natural for human society.

The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription. The bottom of each item page also features the primary document as an embedded pdf for browsing.

Transcription by Davis Baird. Item description based off writing and context provided by Davis Baird.

"Earl Davis -- An Example To His Fellow Men", Obituary, N/A

Funeral, 1953 and After

An obituary published for Earl Clement Davis, but the who and where is not known for sure. Textual evidence suggests it may come from Billerica, Massachusetts, where Earl got his first post-college job as Principal of the Howe School.

Item description based off writing and context provided by Davis Baird.

A New Note In Fiction, Earl Clement Davis

Manuscripts, 1933-1953

This writing is an analysis of fiction's role in showing the human struggle with the changing forces of history, particularly the move away from authoritarianism. Authors mentioned include, Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Leo Tolstoy, Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil, John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga, Mazo de la Roche's Jalna series, and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street and Babbitt.

While this manuscript does not have a date, the fact that it mentions Hervey Allen’s novel Anthony Adverse, published in 1933, and does not mention the award-winning movie of Anthony Adverse that premiered in 1936, …

The Next Step For Our Unitarian Churches, Earl Clement Davis

Manuscripts, 1933-1953

This was a talk that Earl Davis gave at a conference. We have yet to identify the conference or its exact date, but internal evidence – referencing the past “Hoover Administration” and the Roosevelt Administration “brain trust” -- suggests this was presented in 1934 or shortly thereafter.

This writing is a good representation of Davis' core views, drawing from the history of Congregationalism into a discussion of new problems. He ends with a a poem by Jean Untermeyer.

Date refers to Date Given

The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription. The bottom of each item …