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...woman with a scientific turn of mind, a desire to believe in God, and a distrust in Christian dogma may well find himself in the pew of a Unitarian or Universalist Church. Casting up membership totals at the first annual convention of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Washington last fortnight, President Dana McLean Greeley told 1,000 delegates that he thought their church (membership: 200,000) might double in size within the next decade. "We have thought of ourselves as a tiny denomination; but with adequate vision and will, in a quarter of a century we could become a denomination...
Beloff saw the end of World War II as the time when this country first replaced isolationism with a "Universalist" outlook. American and British ideas diverged at this point, he said; the Americans still thought in terms of great world power and saw their ideas reflected in the United Nations charter, obscuring Churchill's belief that the world was not ready for this sort of organization...
...this last point, Leifer and I disagree, as you might expect. Gordon's nationalism is no different from that German madness against which Buber warned the Jews in 1933. Universalist Christians (I use the adjective to weed Hegel out) have always maintained that the nation-state is a necessary evil, and that one's higher loyalties are to God and mankind. Leifer swallows Gordon's odd Germanic idea that the nation is the locus of man's creativity, that there are "no human ideals which are not national ideals." Gordon, it must be said, did tend to think of Israel...
Chief advantage for members is that they can specify in writing exactly what kind of funerals they want and precisely what the cost should be. Explains Unitarian-Universalist Minister Robert MacPherson, of Auburn, Me.: "We're not trying to fight the funeral directors. This is no attempt to undercut their business. And we don't mean to dictate to families how to run their funerals. But I've seen husbands, wives and children agree on how they wanted funeral services arranged, and then just lose control...
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...