Led by Rev. Misty-Dawn Shelly & Phyllis Barrett

We continue to celebrate our 300th Anniversary with this historical sermon. Join us as we hear from Wilfred Barrett who is the great-great-grandson of Rev. Otto Raspe. He offers a reading of Rev. Raspe’s sermon “The Five Pillars in the Temple of Universalism.” Rev. Raspe was a devoted Universalist minister. He was ordained in Morrisville, Vermont, on April 11, 1906. He served churches in Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont. In 1922, the Iowa Universalist Convention published his work entitled “The Five Pillars in the Temple of Universalism,” which illuminated Universalist history and beliefs. We are grateful for Phyllis Barrett coordinating the reading of her grandfather’s sermon and sharing a part of her family history with us.