Word: unitarian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...current campaign in the Unitarian Universalist Association to delete mention of God from its founding statement of principles [June 27] mocks the Unitarianism and Universalism of William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker and Hosea Ballou. If this radical proposal is ratified, the association should seriously consider changing its name to the Humanist Feminist Association...
...tone of ridicule in your article on the Unitarian Universalist Association was offensive. I was lucky enough to have discovered the U.U.A. when I was 18. Its free, open approach to theology helped me through a confusing and difficult period in my spiritual life. The U.U.A. is the only denomination that accepts agnostics, atheists, humanists and other "godless heathen" as religious people who have as much right to ministry, fellowship and communion as anyone...
...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...
...high marrying season. The Gina-Peter ceremony was performed not long ago by the Rev. Bart Gould of the Second Unitarian Church of Chicago. The Rev. Mr. Gould has a taste for the fun nuptial. At the conclusion of his own marriage ceremony in 1977, he turned to his bride, before the assembled guests, and said: "Thank you for choosing an outrageous cuss like me." He was overcome. He broke down and wept. His bride burst out laughing...