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Heyes, now in satisfactory condition at Mass. General Hospital, said he was hit at 6:30 p.m. Feb 6 while he was crossing Mass Ave. from Harvard Yard to the Unitarian Church, near the information booth...
...Joseph Schneiders, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of South Bend, Ind., is not exactly the most popular figure in his politically conservative town. He has held antiwar meetings in the church, counseled youths on how to avoid the draft, been arrested with Negroes at a sit-in. Last July he invited Milwaukee's Father William Groppi and a contingent of his followers down to join a series of Black Power demonstrations in South Bend. Less than a month later, an arsonist hurled a Molotov cocktail at Schneiders' church, and half of it was destroyed by fire...
Currently, First Unitarian has no insurance at all, since it has been turned down by at least 13 other companies. Nor is it the only congregation with that problem: a number of churches that have been involved in antiwar activities have also had their policies canceled because the insurance companies fear the buildings might be set afire, bombed or otherwise damaged...
After Boston's Arlington Street Unitarian-Universalist Church accorded sanctuary last May to a draft resister and an AWOL soldier, the American Employers' Insurance Co. canceled the church's $1,400,000 property damage coverage. The congregation has failed to find a new underwriter. Westchester Fire Insurance Co. of New York dropped $256,000 worth of policies on the Unitarian Church of the Mediator in Providence, R.I., after the company learned that the congregation intended to offer sanctuary to draft resisters (it did, in fact, shelter two in June...
Strength by Contact. Tactile liturgy is taking hold in several other areas of the U.S. Boston's Arlington Street Unitarian Church held a service this spring in which members of a local theater workshop, eyes closed and feigning blindness, moved through the pews to be helped along by parishioners' hands. A seminarian at the Chicago Theological Seminary, Kent Schneider, recently designed a service for his own wedding that turned into a chain of personal contact. After kissing each other, both bride and bridegroom kissed another member of the wedding party on the cheek, and the cycle was continued...