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PAUL KERBY Greeley, Colo...
...turn of mind, a desire to believe in God, and a distrust in Christian dogma may well find himself in the pew of a Unitarian or Universalist Church. Casting up membership totals at the first annual convention of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Washington last fortnight, President Dana McLean Greeley told 1,000 delegates that he thought their church (membership: 200,000) might double in size within the next decade. "We have thought of ourselves as a tiny denomination; but with adequate vision and will, in a quarter of a century we could become a denomination of at least...
Both churches avoid making creedal demands on their members, stressing right feeling rather than right belief. This intellectual open-door policy seems to appeal to the men of a new age of science. Many of the delegates in Washington were scientists, and both Harvard and M.I.T. are considered by Greeley to be "good soil" for producing converts. The Unitarian Church in Albuquerque is composed almost entirely of Atomic Energy Commission employees. In Schenectady, N.Y., 75% of the members of the city's Unitarian church are technicians on the General Electric payroll. Says Unitarian Greeley: "We have more than...
William S. Swinford '62, of Eliot House and Oklahoma City, Okla., received the Frederick Greeley Crocker Memorial Football Trophy, the most valuable player award...
...Both the Cromwellian and French revolutions were corrupted by utopian illusions and the confusion of contradictory visions of social perfection. Abraham Lincoln was dogged by the absolutistic demands of Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, and he had more genuine charity than all of them. In the interventionist controversy preceding World War II we were confronted by a frequently noxious combination of nationalistic and perfectionist isolationism, trying to persuade the nation to remain pure by remaining irresponsible ...Some of the soberness of Catholic social theory certainly derives from its exclusion from the political realm of the yearning...