Clarence Russell Skinner (1881–1949) was a Universalist

Universalist Church of America

The Universalist Church of America was a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States . Known from 1866 as the Universalist General Convention, the name was changed to the Universalist Church of America in 1942...

 Minister, Teacher, and Dean of the Crane School of Theology at Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

. Born in Lexington, Massachusetts

Lexington, Massachusetts

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. He wrote several books that had a substantial influence on Universalism

Universalism

Universalism in its primary meaning refers to religious, theological, and philosophical concepts with universal application or applicability...

 in America in the twentieth century: The Social Implication of Universalism in 1915. A Religion for Greatness in 1945, and, posthumously, Worship and a Well Ordered Life published in 1959. The Unitarian Universalist Association

Unitarian Universalist Association

Unitarian Universalist Association , in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of...

's Skinner House Books

Skinner House Books

Skinner House Books is a book publisher run by the Unitarian Universalist Association , specializing in books for Unitarian Universalists -- meditation manuals, worship and church resources, and books on theology, UU history and social justice concerns...

 imprint is named for him.

Born March 23, 1881, Brooklyn NY.

1904, BA St. Lawrence University

St. Lawrence University

St. Lawrence University is a four-year liberal arts college located in the village of Canton in Saint Lawrence County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split between male and female....

, New York

1906, Ordained to Universalist ministry

1906-1911, Minister at Universalist Church, Mount Vernon, NY

1911-1914, Minister at Grace Universalist Church, Lowell, MA

1917-1920, Minister of First Universalist Church of Medford, MA

1914-1933, Faculty of Crane Theological School

Crane Theological School

The Crane Theological School was a Universalist seminary at Tufts University founded in 1869 as the Tufts College Divinity School and closed in 1968. It was one of three Universalist seminaries founded in America during the nineteenth century. The Crane Theological School was a Universalist...

, Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

1933-1945, Dean of Crane Theological School.

Died 1949