Word: unitarianism
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...Layman. High point of the convention's business was election of a new president. The choice was no surprise: Episcopal Layman Charles Phelps Taft, 49, son of William Howard Taft, 26th President of the U.S. (and Unitarian), brother of Republican Senator Robert A. Taft. A lawyer with a long record of service in public affairs, Charles Taft came to the Council presidency without the theological background characteristic of his 13 predecessors. Knowing delegates saw his election as presaging a new era of lay leadership and political activity for U.S. Protestantism. In his vigorous statement on taking office, Layman Taft...
...Everett Moore Baker, pink-faced and prematurely white-haired at 45, has been minister of Cleveland's First Unitarian Church (with the denomination's third largest membership) since 1942. Really a New Englander, he was born in Massachusetts, where he was a preacher for nine years. Until he took the Cleveland pulpit, he was vice president of the American Unitarian Association, head of its publications and of a Boston radio program...
...recent picture of Admiral and Mrs. Blandy and Admiral Lowry cutting a cake made in the form of an atomic underwater explosion [TIME, Nov. 18] gave wide publicity to the unusual views of the Rev. A. Powell Davies, Unitarian pastor of a "fashionable Washington church." As published ... it did a great injustice to Admirals Blandy and Lowry, who have been tireless in their efforts to tell the citizens of the world of the devastating power and insidious poison of the atomic bomb...
...unliturgical Unitarian, ex-Chaplain Clark's conclusion was notable: ". . . Although we cannot accept Catholic authoritarianism, we can and should have an adequate liturgy to minister to human needs, positive instruction, and greater identity of interest among Protestants...
...Unitarian Mason got the idea in Chicago, where he was one of a group of lawyers who met regularly at luncheon. Mason feels, however, that breakfast is a much better time, because people are quieter in the early morning, hence more inclined to meditation than to small talk. All FTC workers, from head commissioner to janitor, are welcome; some make reservations two months in advance, rouse themselves an hour earlier than usual to attend...