Religion: Debating Society?

"I, for one, will not continue with the label 'Unitarian' if it cannot include Christianity. We must go forward to bring Christianity to every Unitarian Church."

With these words ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts last week fanned smoldering embers of discord in his church. The Christian Register, official publication of the American Unitarian Association, had bubbled with controversy over whether the insistently creedless Unitarians should at least bind themselves to a belief in God. But at the 124th annual meeting of the association, in Boston last week, the delegates voted to keep the...

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