Word: unitarianism
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...drawing crowds to Washington's National Guard armory with his prayer "crusade" (TIME, Jan. 28), most of the capital's Protestant clergymen looked on with either approval or polite silence. Not so the Rev. A. Powell Davies, pastor of Washington's socially prominent All Souls' Unitarian Church. Fortnight ago, in a sermon reported in Washington newspapers, Dr. Davies expressed Unitarian disapproval of Billy Graham's oldtime religion. Said he: "Heaven and hell, the description of God, the provision of a supernatural salvation-all these, at best, are mere assertions." He warned his congregation that...
While Governor Stevenson was born a Democrat, his inheritance includes some stoutly Republican forebears. "If it's true that politics is the art of compromise," he says, "I've had a good start; my mother was a Republican and a Unitarian, my father was a Democrat and a Presbyterian. I ended up in his party and her church...
...Unitarian, All Right. Charlie Potter's devout mother and factory-worker father put him into Baptist Sunday school in Marlboro, Mass. at the age of 18 months; at 2½ he was memorizing Bible passages. At three he was preaching over the back of a chair to his parents on Sunday afternoons. He always had "a good loud voice," and he thinks his voice got him his first pulpit. In his first year at Newton Theological Institution, Baptist Potter astonished the congregation at Dover, N.H. by preaching right through the racket of a Boston & Maine train passing by just...
Five years later, in his second parish at Mattapan, Mass., a visiting Unitarian pronounced his sermon the "best Unitarian sermon I ever heard!" Baptist Potter decided to find out what he really was. He marched into Unitarian headquarters on Boston's Beacon Street and preached the national secretary a sample sermon on Jesus. Yes, said the secretary, he was Unitarian all right...
Badgering Bryan. The high point of Potter's career as a Unitarian was his series of five debates in 1923-24 with Fundamentalist Dr. John Roach Straton of New York City's Calvary Baptist Church. The subjects-the infallibility of the Bible, evolution, the Virgin Birth, the divinity and second coming of Christ- were, says Potter, "part of a crisis in theology." Police and firemen had to be called out to handle the crowds, and the ding-dong battle made Potter, at West Side Unitarian Church, one of Manhattan's best-known preachers...