Word: unitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point, the Holmes family took up residence in the person of the Reverend Abiel Holmes, whose father in law, Judge Wendell of the probate court, bought it for him and his recent bride. Like Eliphalet, though a gentler soul by far, the Reverend Holmes would have no Unitarian nonsense; and for this he lost his parish. During the early 1800s, the Commonwealth's churches were plagued with vicious internal schisms of this sort, and the Reverend Holmes did better than most when he took sixty parishioners with...
...Adlai Stevenson, the week before Christmas was anything but merry and bright. It began with a somewhat embarrassing discussion of his personal religious beliefs, prompted by the fact that Stevenson, a Unitarian, had quietly joined a Presbyterian church. After some Unitarians accused Stevenson of deserting his church, four pastors-two Presbyterians and two Unitarians-made public a letter to him asserting that he can belong to both churches without "inconsistency...
...Understand." "While we understand that you respect theologians," the pastors wrote, "we know that doctrinal rigidity has never limited the comfort you find in Christian faith, worship and fellowship. So, while Governor of Illinois, there being no Unitarian church in Springfield, you attended the Presbyterian church. Confronted with the same situation when you returned to your farm home [at Libertyville, Ill.], we Presbyterians urged you not only to use, as you had from time to time for many years, but to be a member of the nearby Presbyterian church of Lake Forest. Your membership was accepted with the understanding that...
Indispensable Man. By the time Ochsner took over, conditions were vastly different from that January Monday in 1835 when eleven students gathered before Dr. Thomas Hunt, a ripe young 26, in a Unitarian church, to start the first medical school in all the Louisiana Purchase territory. Over conservative Creole (Sorbonne-trained) opposition, Dr. Hunt and his successors built a good regional school in a city which in three years (1833-35) had had 19,000 deaths in a population of 50,000-caused largely by typhoid, cholera and yellow jack...
...upon the church the state's own lower standards of morals?" Prime Ministers of Britain presumably need not even be Christians, let alone Anglicans, since there are no formal religious qualifications for the post; in the last 40 years they have included "a Welsh Baptist, a Scottish Presbyterian, a Unitarian, and now a man who has defied the church by remarrying after divorce...