{"id":73,"date":"2021-07-21T08:53:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T12:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:40:54","slug":"earl-clement-davis-pages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/home\/earl-clement-davis-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Clement Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2021\/07\/EarlClementDavis-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"826\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2021\/07\/EarlClementDavis-826x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Earl Clement Davis\" class=\"wp-image-59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2021\/07\/EarlClementDavis-826x1024.jpg 826w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2021\/07\/EarlClementDavis-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2021\/07\/EarlClementDavis-768x952.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2021\/07\/EarlClementDavis-1239x1536.jpg 1239w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2021\/07\/EarlClementDavis-1652x2048.jpg 1652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">1876-1953<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Unitarian Minister 1905-1953<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earl Clement Davis (1876-1953) was a Unitarian minister from 1905, shortly after he got his Bachelor of Sacred Theology, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His grandson and namesake, Davis Baird (1954- ) , prepared these pages from materials he inherited from his mother, Mary Warrington Davis Baird (1915-1987).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to scanning, transcribing, editing and posting the work of Earl Clement Davis, his grandson has also written a book, <em>Natural Religion: A None&#8217;s Journey of Religious Discovery <\/em>(Wipf and Stock, 2025) about his experience doing this work and about his grandfather&#8217;s approach to religion, and approach that dismisses any supernatural sources for or elements of religion, in favor of human experience and scientific discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2026\/02\/NaturalReligionCover-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2026\/02\/NaturalReligionCover-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2026\/02\/NaturalReligionCover-1.png 570w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2026\/02\/NaturalReligionCover-1-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1876-1953 Unitarian Minister 1905-1953 Earl Clement Davis (1876-1953) was a Unitarian minister from 1905, shortly after he got his Bachelor of Sacred Theology, or S.T.B., degree from Harvard, until his death in 1953. Over this period he had four ministries: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/home\/earl-clement-davis-pages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":54,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}