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3 unusual facts about United Church of Christ


Jeremiah Platt House

Ordained as a minister in the Congregational Church in 1888, Platt left KSAC in 1889 and traveled throughout Kansas establishing Sunday schools.

Peter Niedmann

Some of his hymns and service music have been included in recent Episcopal and UCC hymnals.

The Gay Marriage Thing

The Gay Marriage Thing includes interviews with United Church of Christ Reverend Richard Wiesenbach, Massachusetts State Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein, Unitarian Universalist Reverend Carlton Smith, as well as the featured couple and a multitude of man-on-the-street interviews.


Bottled water

The United Church of Christ, United Church of Canada, National Council of Churches, National Coalition of American Nuns, and Presbyterians for Restoring Creation are among some of the religious organizations that have raised questions about whether or not the "privatization" of water is ethical.

Church of Christ

United Church of Christ, a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States amalgamated from four congregationalist groups in 1957 (See also Christian Connexion.)

Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Collegeville is the home of the Church House (headquarters) of the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ.

George Burton Drake

Through Ruth Nellie Drake he had two grandsons, mathematician Alfred Willcox who served as the executive director of the Mathematical Association of America and United Church of Christ minister Brewster Willcox and a granddaughter, Barbara Willcox Schott.

Harrisville, New Hampshire

The Community Church is a member of the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the American Baptist Association, and it retains a united congregation using both buildings.

Haystack Prayer Meeting

Groups considered to be spiritual heirs of the HPM include Global Ministries of the United Church of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Student Volunteer Movement-2 (SVM-2), and Luke18 Project.

James A. Forbes

(born 1935) is the Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church, an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ) church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.

Macalester Plymouth United Church Hymn Contest

The Macalester Plymouth United Church Hymn Contest is a highly regarded annual search for new hymns instituted by a leading Minnesota congregation which is a union of the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Old Zionsville, Pennsylvania

There are two churches of the Lutheran and UCC faiths in the village and two more of the Mennonite and Bible Fellowship faiths within a mile to the east near Zionsville.

Robert Harold Davidson

On September 30, 2010, Anne Davidson died at home in Litchfield and following a funeral service in the First Congregational Church; United Church of Christ was also interred in East Cemetery.

Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture

Its first board of directors included these three as well as Unitarian Universalist theologian and parish minister, James Luther Adams; mythologist Joseph Campbell, principal developer of the merger forming the United Church of Christ, Truman B. Douglass; Congregationalist parish minister and theologian Amos Wilder, and Stanley Romaine Hopper, theologian and co-founder of the first Theology and Literature program in the United States.

United and uniting churches

United States: United Church of Christ, the 1957 union of the two previously united churches:Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.


see also

Denmark Congregational United Church of Christ

Denmark Congregational United Church of Christ is located in Denmark, Iowa, United States.

Ministerial Council

International Ministerial Council of Great Britain, formerly the Shiloh United Church of Christ, a Christian denomination based in London

St. John's United Church of Christ of Siegel

John's United Church of Christ is a church in Douglas Township in Bremer County, Iowa.

Union Theological Seminary

United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in New Brighton, Minnesota, affiliated with the United Church of Christ

West End Community Council

A grant from the United Church of Christ and funding from the federal Head Start program allowed the Council to begin holding neighborhood festivals to celebrate local talent.