Word: universalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, the Science Center went high-tech with access to its modern, mysterious interior limited to students and staff possessing key cards. The Universalist approach to key card access, based on the idea that members of the University community have access to Harvard buildings to which outsiders do not, should now be transferred to the houses...
Since then two developments have fostered the spread of cultism. One is the end of communism. Whatever the disasters of Marxism, at least it provided an outlet for utopian longings. Now that universalist impulses have one less way to expend themselves, religious enthusiasms of whatever character take on a fresh appeal. And even Russia, with a rich tradition of fevered spirituality and the new upheavals of capitalism, is dealing with modern cults...
Mikelson, who is minister of the First Parish-Unitarian Universalist Church, said the task force will explore various policy alternatives and return a recommendation to the Board at its meeting...
...Unitarian Universalist, and my Christian denomination believes homosexual people should have the same rights as anyone else. Ministers of my denomination have been performing commitment ceremonies for same-sex couples for years. We are a "creedless faith"; we don't have any texts that tell us what we have to believe, or how we should behave. We do not believe that you can "hate the sin but love the sinner," but that we should love and celebrate every part of each person. We do not believe in the inherent sinfulness of all people; we believe in the inherent dignity...
...bound to be in the background," said board member Reverend Thomas J. Mikelson of First Parish-Unitarian Universalist Church in Cambridge. "I can't say how it will effect our consideration of the issue, but it will definitely be taken into account...