# Theodore Parker
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theodore parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.
== Early life, 1810–1829 ==
theodore parker was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, the youngest child in a large farming family.
Obama re-ups American values in an age of Trump depravity
Jen Psaki talks with former speech writers for President Barack Obama, Jon Favreau and Cody Keenan, about the significance of the Obama Presidential Center and how the messaging of hope and hard work contrasts with the bleak mood as Americans endure Donald Trump's corruption and mismanagement.
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The Promise That Still Defines America | 10@9 | 2026.07.03
America turns 250 this week. I love my country, and I worry about it. Like many Americans, I see division, anger, and a growing loss of trust. But I refuse to believe those problems tell the whole story. I love America enough to judge it by its highest ideals, not its lowest moments.
This July 4, …
Inspiring Thoughts on Your Immortal Life
Listen to episode 1143 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspiring Thoughts on Your Immortal Life, edited & adapted from Theodore Parker's Unitarian sermon on immortality.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Immortality is what philosophers call an ontological fact; it belongs essentially to our bein…
Richard Parker || God, Money, and the Making of America
Richard Parker has spent his life reading America through two lenses most people keep apart: economics and religion. The throughline is that faith, money, and power did not grow up in separate rooms. They grew up together.
An Oxford-trained economist who has taught at Harvard's Kennedy School sinc…
In Plain Sight
In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: "We should look in vain through the most trying times of our revolutionary history for an incident of courage and noble daring to equal that of the escape of William and Ellen Craft; and future historians and poets would tell this story as …
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