Word: unitarian
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...very vague—it’s important to be a good person,” Gordon offers as his view of what it means to be Buddhist. “The way I tend to think of it, Buddhists here are like if Unitarians got together and really decided to be serious, they would turn into Buddhist,” says Gordon, who was brought up in the Unitarian Church...
...Buddhists who were not originally Unitarian or some other religious affiliation, the practice of Buddhism can be quite different. Meghan C. Howard ’04 is one such example. Drawn to Buddhism by a Zen text, her parents were Zen Buddhist until she was four, when a Tibetan lama visited Rochester, N.Y. “They were so moved,” Howard says, that they became Tibetan Buddhist and helped set up the local dharma center, which they now run. Howard laughs as she recounts the long hours she spent at the dharma center as a child, saying...
...Forum’s new season was launched in late September with a discussion led by political satirist Al Franken ’73. An unprecedented number of people attended the taping, which was held—like every edition of the Forum—at First Parish Unitarian Universalist on Church Street...
...Forum has paid special attention to colleges ever since its beginning in 1967, Suhrcke says, when the Unitarian Universalist’s Association decided to launch a response to the teach-ins that many universities were conducting at the time...
...Unitarian Universalists, who have always been a non-divine religion, started urging their congregations across the country to start public forums,” explains Suhrcke. “There were forums in a lot of Unitarian churches in the late 60s and early 70s, but [ours] has survived, just by virtue of it being in Cambridge and having access to so much expertise and so many visiting people coming through. We can maintain a weekly schedule of programs, which would be hard to do in Fargo...