Word: unitarianism
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...Museum currently has modest quarters on the ground floor of the Charles Street Meeting-House, which functions mainly as a Unitarian-Universalist church. Located at 70 Charles Street, the building is a handsome brick one in the Federalist style; erected in 1807, it was designed by Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), who was responsible for the even more impressive Old West Church and several Beacon Hill houses as well, and was Boston's foremost architectural contemporary of the great Charles Bul-finch...
Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, Jerome A. Cohen and Lucien W. Pye will discuss "Is China Unique?" at 8 p.m. tonight in the First Parish Church (Unitarian), 3 Church...
...Unitarianism was once snidely summed up as a small New England sect with a faith in the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the neighborhood of Boston. No longer. According to a new and wide-ranging survey of the Unitarian Universalist Association*which was undertaken by Chicago's Opinion Research Center, it has proportionately more college-educated and affluent members than any other church in the U.S.-and more than two-thirds of them now live outside New England, away from the faith's old neighborhood. The survey indicates that 63% of adult Unitarians earn more...
...never pray. On topical issues, they approve of abortion for any pregnant unmarried woman (72%), intercourse between unmarried persons (80%); 70% think it "very important" that churches be involved in the struggle for racial justice. Although 69% oppose any escalation of the war in Viet Nam, only one Unitarian in five thinks that the U.S. should unilaterally pull its forces out of Southeast Asia...
...Unitarian President Dana McLean Greeley said that the survey confirms his church's conviction that it represents "a small, intellectually and socially advanced segment of society, not the rank and file." The segment is growing. Unitarian membership within the past decade has doubled to 276,944, and church leaders expect it to reach...