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...does a Unitarian begin his prayer? Answer: "To whom it may concern . . ." That dog-eared ecclesiastical joke became a real possibility last week, as the Unitarian Universalist Association opened debate on a rather radical proposal: to delete any mention of God from its founding statement of principles. The Rev. Walter Royal Jones Jr., head of the drafting committee, noted that the idea was subject to change, and a Colorado layman protested, "We can never sell this." Nonetheless, the move toward godlessness represented a growing consensus among Unitarian Universalist congregations in the U.S. and Canada...
Understandably, the denominations had trouble pinning down what they actually believed in. Over the years, they issued a series of increasingly murky declarations about their theology. Prior to the merger of the two denominations in 1961 to form the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Universalists professed a faith in a loving God and in Jesus as a spiritual (although not a divine) leader, while the Unitarians honored the "religion which Jesus taught 'as love to God and love to man.' " A compromise hammered out during the merger eliminated the name of Jesus from the association's statement...
...incomes from the fund, which represents the legacy of a member of the North Shore Unitarian Universalist Society of Plan-dome. New York, will provide scholarship aid to students, funds for continuing education, and support for ministerial training and religion education program for Unitarian Universalists...
Harvard is the only non-denominational beneficiary of this fund. The other recipients--the Meadville/Lombard Theological School at the University of Chicago and the Thomas Starr King School at Barkeley, Ca--are Unitarian Universalist seminaries...
Harvard's annual revenue from the fund, the exact amount of which is not yet determined, will provide scholarships for women and men training to be Unitarian Universalist ministers, and preserve the archives chronicling Unitarian and Universalist history, which are "by far the largest collection in the world," Rupp said last night...