Word: non-christian
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...religion, and these days religious questions are sweeping the Cambridge campus with what Pusey himself called cyclone force. The controversy reached a peak over the issue of whether Memorial Church, dedicated to the memory of Harvard's dead in World Wars I and II, should be used for non-Christian marriage and funeral ceremonies (TIME...
...choice of the spiritually minded, 823 to 720, was tall Dana McLean Greeley, 49, minister of Boston's Arlington Street Church. Said President-elect Greeley: "I have never wished to sunder Unitarianism from Protestantism or Christianity, but I am eager to have it serve as a bridge between the Christian and non-Christian worlds, and I am as ready for it to cultivate close relationships wherever opportunity affords with other great faiths, or lesser faiths, as with Christianity...
...Minister of the First Church in Cambridge, Unitarian, Wilburn B. Miller, expressed pleasure at the Corporation's decision, calling it a "step in the right direction." He said that he would be happy if non-Christian services other than funerals and weddings could be held in Memorial Church...
This has never, of course, prevented non-Christians from giving the Sunday sermon or speaking at the daily morning services in Appleton Chapel. But Sperry and his successor George A. Buttrick have had to say no to repeated requests for non-Christian marirages or funerals. These have come mostly from Jews; there have been one or two applications for Moslem services...
There has been no basic change in University policy towards non-Christian services in Memorial Church since the Sperry regime. Certainly neither President Pusey nor Dr. Buttrick have instituted new rules or tightened old ones. The controversy today centers not on any policy change in the recent past, but on the question of whether some change is now called...