Word: unitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less deserved these attacks than Dr. Buttrick, for Dr. Buttrick is as tolerant in his personal relations as he is eloquent in the pulpit. But behind the "Mem Church" uproar lay a deeper issue that divided a university with a strong secular tradition, fostered, among other Harvard presidents, by Unitarian Charles W. Eliot (1869-1909), Unitarian Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1909-1933), Scientist James B. Conant (1933-1953). The issue, whose significance goes far beyond Harvard: How religious can a secular university...
Last week, for the first time in its 133 years, the American Unitarian Association had a contested election for president. Normally, the board of directors nominates a president and the association's annual meeting elects him. But this year the Unitarians found themselves a house more than usually divided: the board's selection of a skilled administrator in onetime Executive Vice President Ernest W. Kuebler, 54, met opposition from those who wanted a representative of the more spiritual side of Unitarianism-especially in view of recent hot debates over whether Unitarians should break with the Christian tradition...
Buttrick stated that both of the new Members are men of great "stature and gifts." Robbins, Minister of the First Unitarian Church, Worcester, is former associate dean of the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. Meek, who is senior Minister of Old South Church (Congregational), Boston, is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Andover Newton Theological Seminary...
...sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath," Jesus admonished the Pharisees. This week Boston's venerable Unitarian King's Chapel will begin an experiment that might shock more than Pharisees: repeating Sunday's service on Thursday night for churchgoers who would rather spend Sunday playing golf, painting screens or driving bumper to bumper...
...Minister of the First Church in Cambridge, Unitarian, Wilburn B. Miller, expressed pleasure at the Corporation's decision, calling it a "step in the right direction." He said that he would be happy if non-Christian services other than funerals and weddings could be held in Memorial Church...