Word: unitarian
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...public schools in New Hyde Park, a suburban community on Long Island, brought suit in the New York State Supreme Court to halt recitation of the Regents' prayer on the ground that it violated their beliefs. Of the five parents, two were synagogue-going Jews, one was a Unitarian, one a member of the Society for Ethical Culture, one an agnostic. After the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, upheld the Regents' prayer in a 5-to-2 ruling, the parents carried their case to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Stuart Hughes, Harvard professor of History and independent candidate for the United States Senate will hold a special meeting for those interested in working on his campaign Thursday at the Unitarian Church on Harvard Square...
...those who disagreed with them. Martin Luther argued that it was just for civil authorities to kill and exile the Anabaptists. Calvin actively worked for the condemnation and death of Michael Servetus, a brilliant Spanish physician whose denial of belief in the Trinity made him the first modern Unitarian. Both Catholics and Protestants must share the blame for what Nigg calls "one of the most shocking periods in the history of Christianity": the craze for witch burning that swept through Europe from the 15th through the 18th centuries...
...woman with a scientific turn of mind, a desire to believe in God, and a distrust in Christian dogma may well find himself in the pew of a Unitarian or Universalist Church. Casting up membership totals at the first annual convention of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Washington last fortnight, President Dana McLean Greeley told 1,000 delegates that he thought their church (membership: 200,000) might double in size within the next decade. "We have thought of ourselves as a tiny denomination; but with adequate vision and will, in a quarter of a century we could become a denomination...
...stressing right feeling rather than right belief. This intellectual open-door policy seems to appeal to the men of a new age of science. Many of the delegates in Washington were scientists, and both Harvard and M.I.T. are considered by Greeley to be "good soil" for producing converts. The Unitarian Church in Albuquerque is composed almost entirely of Atomic Energy Commission employees. In Schenectady, N.Y., 75% of the members of the city's Unitarian church are technicians on the General Electric payroll. Says Unitarian Greeley: "We have more than the average denomination's share of scientists. That...