Word: unitarianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diameter. On it, along with the 40 names, is carved a chronology of major civil rights events, and over this flows a thin sheen of water, a symbol of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "mighty stream" of righteousness. Said Karen Reeb, daughter of a white Unitarian minister who was beaten to death after he marched with King in Selma, Ala.: "It just eases the emptiness in my heart...
Some Protestant denominations have landed on the liberationist side. The Unitarian Universalists openly welcome gay clergy. The United Church of Christ, which in 1972 became the first major denomination to ordain an avowedly homosexual clergyman, subsequently stated that homosexual orientation is no barrier to ordination, leaving open the matter of ministers' active sexual behavior. The United Church of Canada is in an uproar over a similar policy issued last year...
...Unitarian Universalist Church is a small but historically important liberal religious movement which broke away from the orthodox New England Congregationalist Church in the early 19th century, Hutchison said. He also cited the movement as a major inspiration for early transcendentalists such as Emerson...
...Harvard seems to be the leading center in America for Unitarian Universalist studies, though it's only a small part of the Divinity School program," Hutchison added...
According to Hall, this is no coincidence, "Harvard itself, in its 19th and 20th century incarnation, has been strongly shaped by Unitarian Universalism...