Word: unitarianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the presentation yesterday of a check for $12,000 to Mrs. Priscilla Greenhalge, agent of the Unitarian Service Committee, the University gave its answer to President Truman's plea for aid to Europe's starving millions...
Adressed to Miss Elsi Haus, the Unitarian Committee's representative in Vienna, a group of Czech students wrote, "Your action brings real relief to those who need it most: survivors of concentration camps, members of the resistance movement and the politically persecuted...
...Washington. D.C., where many talk but few listen, spare, sharp-profiled Rev. A. (for Arthur) Powell Davies, 44, is a man who is heard. Every Sunday his congregation* at the chaste, red brick, All Souls' Unitarian Church overflows from the church auditorium into adjacent halls and recreation rooms. Reason: his 35-minute sermons are protein-rich with wit, wisdom, sincerity and invective. His preaching has made Welsh-born Powell Davies one of America's outstanding liberal clergymen...
...Davies had become a "radical," thus had no qualms when he was called as minister of the Unitarian Church in Summit, N.J. There he wrote many a provocative article, and his first book, American Destiny. (His second: The Faith of an Unrepentant Liberal, published this year.) Real recognition of his stature came with the call to Washington...
Church & Pastor. All Souls', probably the most important Unitarian church in the U.S., was founded in 1821 by John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun and Charles Bulfinch, architect of the Capitol. Its most famed minister: Edward Everett Hale. If the size of the congregation is a gauge, Davies has proved a powerful successor; almost overnight he brought about its present overflow. His explanation of his success...