Word: universalist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
JESUS OUSTED BY CHURCHES IN MERGING. Under this eye-catching headline the Austin (Texas) American reported the labor pains of a new denomination: the Unitarian Universalist Association. Meeting separately and simultaneously in Syracuse, N.Y., representatives of the American Unitarian Association (membership: 108,396) and the Universalist Church of America (membership: 68,949) agreed last week to unite. But though neither of the creedless sects officially accepts the divinity of Jesus (except as all men participate in divinity), the Man from Nazareth managed to give them a hard time...
Shortly after the Festival announced its invitational policy, an Open Competition Committee formed to channel the opposition. When no change was forthcoming, the group decided to sponsor a protest show, located in the nearby Universalist Meeting House on Charles Street...
...House Methodist 18 84 Roman Catholic 11 75 Baptist 14 55 Presbyterian 13 52 Episcopal 12 45 Congregationalist 8 19 Lutheran 4 15 Disciples of Christ 2 14 Jewish 2 8 Mormon 3 4 Evangelical and Reformed 2 4 Unitarian 2 3 Quaker 2 2 Church of Christ 4 Universalist 2 Christian Scientist 2 Apostolic Christian 1 Evangelical Free Church 1 Hindu...
...Tufts began. Although founded mainly by Universalist donations, this college was to have a true liberal tradition and its charter proclaimed that no instructor or student would ever be denied admission because of religious opinions...
...this mural, Tufts has grown in value from $100,000, the amount raised to found the college, to its present finaincial value of $36,000,000, of which half is in endowment. Most Tufts men are familiar with the story of how its original funds were raised. At a Universalist convention in New York the Reverend Ballou preached the sermon to open the convention on the forty-eighth verse of the twelfth chapter of Luke: "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of them will they ask the more...