Word: unitarianizing
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Organized by Service Employees International Union Local 254, which represents Harvard’s unionized janitors, the rally filled the Unitarian-Universalist First Church of Cambridge and was followed by a 25-minute march to the Holyoke Center, through rainy conditions and slush...
...Sunday, I went to a religious service for the first time in 22 years. Tired of weeping in front of the television, and troubled by my ability to guide students without having some guidance myself, I went to a church that I had been told was progressive (the Unitarian Universalist Church in Boston) and that had been rebuilt from the ruins of fire. I went, moreover, as someone whose faith is, and may be always, small and weak. I felt strange walking to church, and stranger still entering it, for I am prone to skepticism, particularly where matters...
...Women's Equality Day, a sweltering Sunday afternoon at a Unitarian church in Boca Raton. You can tell it is Janet Reno's turf by the way the National Organization for Women crowd hangs on every word of the first female U.S. Attorney General. Whoever the first female U.S. President is, Reno says, she will listen more closely to "all Americans, like the single mother who feels alone and frustrated." But then Reno says something that leaves the N.O.W. women, dressed in suffragist purple, looking puzzled. She talks about "the young white man who wants to be an FBI agent...
...points on which doctrines diverge: things like the number and nature of deity, why is there terrible wrongdoing in the world, should men and women have prescribed roles? When I finish, I get a list telling me that my answers suggest I'm best suited to be a Universal Unitarian, a Neo-Paganist (an animist, essentially) or a Liberal Quaker. (It also seems I'm more in tune with Sikhs than Seventh Day Adventists...
Although the tone at the union meeting at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church last night--where a song with the lyrics "You Can't Scare Me, I'm Sticking to the Union" played on loudspeakers--was celebratory, union members said they had not predicted the talks would turn out so well...