''The Christian Examiner'' was an American

periodical A periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar example is a newspaper, but a magazine or a journal are also example ...

published between 1813 and 1869.

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Founded in 1813 as ''The Christian Disciple'', it was purchased in 1814 by

Nathan Hale Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an American Patriot, soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured ...

. His son

Edward Everett Hale Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as " The Man Without a Country", published in '' Atlantic Monthly'', in support of the Union ...

later oversaw publication.Cushing, William (ed.)
Index to The Christian Examiner
Volumes 1-87 (1824-1869).'' J. S. Cushing, 1879; p.iii+WorldCat
Christian disciple

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a cham ...

's first printed work, "Thoughts on the Religion of the Middle Ages," signed "H.O.N.," was published in ''The Christian Disciple'' in 1822.See vol. for 1822, pp. 401-408. Through the years, editors included:

William Ellery Channing William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786–1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. Channi ...

;

Noah Worcester Noah Worcester (November 25, 1758 – October 31, 1837) was a Unitarian clergyman and a seminal figure in the history of American pacifism. Life Worcester was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, to a father of the same name, who had been one of the f ...

;

Henry Ware Jr. Henry Ware Jr. (April 21, 1794 – September 22, 1843) was an influential Unitarian theologian, early member of the faculty of Harvard Divinity School, and first president of the Harvard Musical Association. He was a mentor of Ralph Waldo Em ...

; John Gorham Palfrey; Francis Jenks, and others. An important journal of liberal Christianity, it was influential in the Unitarian and Transcendentalist movements.Gura, Philip F. (2007). ''American Transcendentalism: A History''. St. Martin's Press, It ceased publication in 1869 when it was subsumed by a new Unitarian periodical edited by

and called ''Old and New''.

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