Word: unitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though undated, I presume it to be about the Revolutionary era. For the record, said Asa Walker was a respected deacon of the Unitarian Church of Ashby, Mass, whose forebears were the strictest of Puritans. Shades of Kefauver...
...reaction was immediate and astonishing. Some 150 Berkeley citizens held a hasty mass meeting, raised $2,300 from the floor. Such notables as Philosopher Alexander Meiklejohn, Economist John B. Condliffe, Composers Darius Milhaud and Roger Sessions became KPFA sponsors. Dr. J. Raymond Cope, minister of Berkeley's First Unitarian Church, enrolled 250 volunteer fundraisers, who collected a total of $23,000 in contributions. And Raytheon Manufacturing Co. donated the components of a new 16,100-watt transmitter which can send an FM signal throughout the whole San Francisco Bay area...
...contrast, the Unitarian Eliot Club--through Ann Geer '53, its president---issued the following statement: "The Eliot Club is opposed to a G.E. course given by anyone hired on the basis of an individual religious experience. We believe that the objective presentation of religion is adequately covered in the College. The individual approach can best be developed through the churches in this area...
...decades ago, were vigorous in their opposition to anything which smacked of 'Romish' tendencies. I worship in a Methodist church where the service today opens with the entrance of an acolyte to light the altar candles and closes when he reappears to snuff them. There is a Unitarian church in Chicago in which a sanctuary light burns constantly...
...know that we are considered heathen or non-Christian by the believers in the Trinity, a doctrine which no sensible man can accept ... If you will look into the record of the Unitarian Service Committee, you will find that instead of getting hot and bothered about theology, which, after all, is merely man's opinion, we put into practice the teachings of Jesus...