Word: unitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston headquarters of the Unitarian Universalist Association has used computerized bookkeeping for years, and is about to hook up with a larger computer bank in Manhattan for additional service. With its new facilities the church will study members' views on a wide range of questions, from sex to the hereafter...
...Germany and Italy; as an author, he wrote a dozen instant histories and produced in 1939 an autobiographical bestseller in Days of Our Years. After World War II, he went to the pulpit and devoted nearly all his time to battling religious and political intolerance as a Unitarian minister...
...application was primarily religious. Being an unorthodox, kind of small letter 'c' christian--or Judeo-Christian--and officially being a Unitarian, it's not easy to answer simply 'yes' or 'no' to whether I believe in a Supreme Being. I tried to discuss something like a Supreme Being that is imminent rather than transcendent: a function or aspect of human experience. I could have quoted Hindu doctrine to make it fit, but I chose to write it in my own words. I wrote about the highest moments of perception and truth and reality, and the power of love, communion...
...some churches, there are already indications that Negro members are no longer content to be seen but not heard. An example is the Unitarian-Universalist Association-traditionally noted for its equality-flavored pronouncements on race. At a meeting of 200 Unitarians in Manhattan last month to discuss racial problems, 31 Negro delegates held a separate caucus, accusing their church of denying Negroes fair representation in leadership positions...
...Imitation. On the Eastern Seaboard, echoes of history mingled with the pressures of the present. More than 4,000 demonstrators mustered on the Boston Common before a draft-card burning at which 67 men ignited their cards with a candlestick once owned by William Ellery Channing, the 19th century Unitarian divine and Thoreauvian advocate of civil disobedience, who wrote: "Our first duties are not to our country. We belong first to God and next to our race." Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, a longtime activist who has marched against Southern white racism as well as the war, conceded that many...