Word: unitarianism
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...Establishment at Harvard is NOT always Trinitarian Protestant, as he seems to believe. Harvard supported a Unitarian Church instead, for a significant period in its history, and has in general supported the majority religion of its membership. But at this time, THERE IS NO MAJORITY RELIGION at Harvard. The Protestants who run Memorial Church and who worship in it are a minority religion, just as are the 3000 Jews who make up Harvard's Jewish congregations in the course of a year...
Harvard became Unitarian in the 19th century. We Unitarians are excluded from the National Council of Churches and for at least 400 years have been regarded as heretics. Polls show that Unitarians feel closer to Judaism than Christianity, that a majority are humanists, that many (including myself) do not believe in a personal...
...undergraduate, the Memorial Church minister refused its use for a Jewish wedding. Like Professor Kilson, he appealed to a nonexistent Calvinistic Trinitarianism that anyone who reads a history of Harvard like Morison's will find it never existed. Harvard's greatness is not because it was Unitarian but because the Unitarians had the good sense to let everyone come...
...misinformed, but that Memorial Church with its magnificent location and facilities should be of much more use to the Harvard community than it is. The strange thing about Memorial Church is that it neither expresses what Harvard was not what Harvard is. Paul John Rich '59 Minister, The Unitarian Church East Bridgewater, Mass...
Philip LaZebnik '75, returned to Harvard in the fall of 1973 with an original musical, The Truth of Mons Herbert, that had had its world premiere that summer in a Unitarian church in Columbia, Missouri. Against all odds--in a university town in August when the population is practically reduced to owners of pizza stands--the show was a success, attendance skyrocketed, and the house was filled for the last two nights. But when LaZebnik tried to find a group to sponsor the production at Harvard several months later, no one seemed to have any faith that the musical would...