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Bob has published opinion pieces,articles on
Unitarian Universalism and other religions, Christian history,and various historic personages. Some of these are now available online. Below is a list of those in these categories:

OPINION PIECES IN NEWSPAPER OP-ED PAGES  (most recent first)

• "On a sad note, opera’s in trouble,” [Raleigh] News & Observer, February 7, 2009 (http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/
  columns/story/1396834.html)
• "Jumping the gun on the millennium,” Hartford Courant, November 9, 1999
• "Public radio should trim from the top,” Hartford Courant, April 9, 1995
• “The affirmative-action weaning process has begun,” Hartford Courant, July 18, 1991
• "Hartford has no business erecting a crèche,” Hartford Courant, December 2, 1990
• "Lottery mania: chasing an illusive rainbow,” Hartford Courant, September 27, 1990
• "You can’t pet a [police] cruiser,” Hartford Courant, March 26, 1990
• "How to find love in the 1990s: Marry your best friend,” Hartford Courant, February 14, 1990
• "[Charles] Darwin, [Dan] Quayle, and me,” Trinity Tripod, [c.1990]
• "Offer incentives for 18-year-olds to put off college,” Hartford Courant, October 4, 1989
• "[Cardinal Josef ] Glemp showed insensitivity towards Jews,” Trinity Tripod, September 12, 1989
• "“Public radio without Robert J. [Lurtsema],” Hartford Courant, August 31, 1989

ARTICLES ON UNITARIANISM

"The Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of Man, and the Neighborhood of Boston”: The Beginnings of American Unitarianism, is a transcript of his lecture at the Unitarian Society of Hartford, given on August 25, 2002, and is found online at http://www.ushartford.com/ fatherhoodofman.html. 

• Thomas Jefferson—And Other Suspects: A Slightly Irreverent History of American Unitarianism, covers Bob’s “heretical” assertion that Jefferson was a Unitarian only in spirit—not in fact. This well-received talk was given at the dedication of the new Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship sanctuary in Alabama in October 5, 2003.
  
  
• In 2004, Bob authored a chapter on Unitarian Universalism in Understanding Your Neighbor’s Faith: What Christians and Jews Should Know about Each Other. Compiled and edited by Rabbi Philip Lazowski, the book was issued by the KTAV Publishing House.
  
  
• Bob’s March 8, 2005, talk at the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Durham, North Carolina, on “Pioneering Universalist & Unitarian Clergywomen” was based on his 1993 Trinity College research paper, Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Unitarian and Universalist Clergywomen: A Bibliographic Essay.
  
  
• In 1994, Bob collaborated with Professor Freeman Myers in assembling and editing Hartford Unitarianism, 1844-1994, a sesquicentennial history of the Unitarian Society of Hartford. Bob’s Victor Lundy's Unitarian Meeting House, Hartford, Connecticut, which originated in 1995 as a graduate research paper while he earned his M.A. in American Studies at Trinity College, is online at http://www.ushartford.com/Lundy1.html
  
  
• Bob’s senior honors thesis, “One God in One Person Only”: Unitarianism Challenges the Connecticut Standing Order, 1800-1820, which he researched largely at the Harvard Divinity School, won the College’s 1991 D. G. Brinton Thompson Prize in United States History. 
  
  
• Drawing from his thesis, in 1992, Bob delivered a paper, “The Unitarian Challenge to the Standing Order in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1801-05,” before the Association for the Study of Connecticut History on the case of the Rev. John Sherman, the first Congregational minister in the state to be dismissed by a Congregational Church body because of his Unitarian sentiments.
  
  
• While earning his M.S. in Library Science at Simmons College in Boston, Bob authored “Nascent Unitarianism in New England, 1730-1830: A Literature Guide” (1992).

HISTORICAL ARTICLES ON CHRISTIANITY

• "Major Religious Influences on the Development of Early New England Puritanism” (1990)
• “The Holy Fathers of Hell: The Popes of Dante’s Inferno,” in The Trinity Papers 8 (1989).
• “Archbishop Laud and the Battle for Anglican Uniformity” (1990)
• "Calvin’s Genevan Theocracy and its Influence on American Constitutional Theory” (1989)
• "Elizabethan Presbyterianism: The Via Media of Thomas Cartwright” (1990)
• "The Holy Fathers of Hell: The Popes of Dante’s Inferno,” in The Trinity Papers 8 (1989)
• "The Latitudinarianism of Samuel Clarke” (1990)
• “Elizabethan Presbyterianism: The Via Media of Thomas Cartwright” (1990)"Medieval Christian Intolerance of Dissenters: Homosexuals, Jews and Cathars” (1989)
• “Medieval Christian Intolerance of Dissenters: Homosexuals, Jews and Cathars” (1989)
• "Mit brennender Sorge: Christian Resistance to Nazism,” in The Trinity Papers (1989-1990)

ARTICLES ON OTHER TOPICS

• “Benjamin Britten and Wilfred Owen: The War Requiem” researches ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and was published
• “American Opera with a Lovelock Twist,” in Lovelock Lines (July 2006), discusses American composer John Duke’s 1953 chamber opera Captain Lovelock, based on Danish Baron Ludvig Holberg’s 1753 comedy Den forvandlede brudgom (The Changed Bridegroom). It can be found online at http://perso.numericable.fr/~lovjames/family-history/lovelock/l-lines/lovelock-lines-5th-ed.pdf.
• Noah’s Ark Encounters the Mayflower,” a humorous article which explains how the number of one’s direct ancestors is exponential, has been reproduced online dozens of times.
• “The Latitudinarianism of Samuel Clarke” (1990)
• Published Sermons in the Noah Webster Pamphlet Collection, Hartford Public Library: A Finding Aid (1994)
• Published Sermons in the Noah Webster Pamphlet Collection, Hartford Public Library: A Finding Aid (1994)

 
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