1876-1953

Unitarian Minister 1905-1953

Earl Clement Davis (1876-1953) was a Unitarian minister from 1905, shortly after he got his Bachelor of Divinity, or S.T.B., degree from Harvard, until his death in 1953. Over this period he had four ministries: Unity Church, Pittsfield, Massachusetts (1905-1919); Church of our Father, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1919-1924); Unitarian Church, Concord, New Hampshire (1924-1933); First Congregational Church-Unitarian, Petersham, Massachusetts (1933-1953). These pages include a selection of his sermons and other writings.

His grandson and namesake, Davis Baird (1954- ) , prepared these pages from materials he inherited from his mother, Mary Warrington Davis Baird (1915-1987).

In addition to scanning, transcribing, editing and posting the work of Earl Clement Davis, his grandson has also written a book, Natural Religion: A None’s Journey of Religious Discovery (Wipf and Stock, 2025) about his experience doing this work and about his grandfather’s approach to religion, and approach that dismisses any supernatural sources for or elements of religion, in favor of human experience and scientific discovery.