Word: unitarian
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STERLING OWEN, police chief of Knoxville, Tenn., on the motives of Jim D. Adkisson, an out-of-work truck driver who gunned down two people at a Unitarian church known for its liberal views...
Southern evangelical preachers aren't prepared when they meet Burns Strider. They hear "director of faith-based operations for Hillary Clinton" and expect a pinch-nosed Yankee, probably of the Unitarian variety, who looks for Job in the New Testament. Then in walks Strider, 41, a former Southern Baptist missionary who calls everyone brother or sister and can tell you exactly when he decided to "give my heart to Jesus." His latest mission: spreading the good news about Clinton to religious audiences...
...Mara Vanderslice would know, since she was the person nominally in charge of shaping his religious identity. Vanderslice, who just turned 32, is a secret agent of sorts who grew up in a Unitarian Democratic household in Boulder, Colo., where she was raised to believe that Christians tended to be Republicans and vice versa. She went off to Earlham College in Indiana, an earnest Quaker school with a dry campus where students took themselves and their role in the world seriously. A semester abroad in Central America launched her on a spiritual journey, which led to her baptism by full...
...prejudice. "While this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed," he said in a speech to the conservative Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960, "in other years it has been--and may someday be again--a Jew or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist ... Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow...
William F. Schulz, one of the new fellows and the former executive director of Amnesty International, has been “a major player in the human rights world,” Fischer said. As the director of Amnesty for the past 12 years and president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations prior to that, Schulz has worked extensively in the human rights arena...