Word: unitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, at its annual meeting in Boston, the American Unitarian Association elected Sanford Bates, onetime Federal Prison Superintendent, now the executive director of the Boys' Clubs of America, to be the first Moderator in the 113 years of its history. An unpaid, honorary officer, Moderator Bates will in effect be a public relations man, traveling about the U. S. delivering speeches, unifying Unitarianism. The big Unitarian footsteps he will follow will be those of such presidents of the General Conference (an office abolished a dozen years ago) as William Howard Taft and Harvard's Charles William Eliot...
...repeal a church law which, since the reign of Henry VIII, has forced the Church of England to consecrate any and all bishops appointed by the Crown (i.e., the Government). Speaking in favor of this, Lord Hugh reminded his fellows that the present Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, is a Unitarian, as are all his family. Said Churchman Cecil: "Whatever function he is called upon to perform under the Constitution, the present Prime Minister performs it thoroughly and conscientiously. Nevertheless ... he is ... a Unitarian Christian,* and it certainly does seem to me . . . that it is unseemly and ... in the technical sense...
...emotional Manhattan theorizer who has successively been a Baptist, Unitarian and Universalist preacher, and now is a New Humanist, an Extra-Sensory Perceptionist* and Euthanatist Charles Francis Potter, Dr. Tuttle's murder and attempted suicide were reasonable. He and a sizable group of other notable men believe so strongly in the right of an incurably diseased individual to have his life terminated gently that they have organized a National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia. For purposes of their propaganda the Miami incident came in handy, occurring as it did the very day after Dr. Potter first publicly announced...
...Except attendance in the Unitarian, Universalist and Christian Science churches, which had a high positive correlation with...
...still says: "I consider myself a reporter, not a preacher. The earliest Christians were reporters who simply told to others what they saw, heard and experienced, and that is what I try to do." Currently he preaches on Sundays at Boston's Morgan Memorial Church, which has a Unitarian congregation but, by the terms of a bequest which gave it its property, must keep a Methodist in its pulpit...