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Show Unitarianism in Utah 1979 1981, to co-teaching In 1982 ministry. class in orientation a to the part of the Minister-on-Loan program, Point, Indiana. He had a spot on Boston as he served in Crown Speak of Many Things" from weekly column in The Boston Herald radio station WCRV called "To 1983 to 1984, and wrote from 1984 to 1987.38 Rev. Goldsmith had City from Lake began as a a successful candidating week in Salt 30 November to 7 December 1986 and he minister in September 1987, bringing with him his He has written wife and children, Heather and Jesse. numerous articles for the Deseret News, Ogden Standard Examiner, Network, and Desert Sun. One of the things about life in Utah that most tomed to surprised Rev. Goldsmith, who was well accus living in a minority situation, was the amount of control that the Mormon church held over the society. He explained: I would or imagine Presbyterian Pittsburgh, whatever. There is still- least it at was or Methodist Dallas, true in Boston - a separation between church and state, a separation between sacred and profane. Perhaps the decision-makers were of one persuasion, but there was still a line that was acknowledged. One lived his secular life any way one wanted. Here [in Utah] the religious . bit has really crossed all of us, like it or over not. .. the line into the secular life. It affects 39 After Rev. Goldsmith's arrival in Salt Lake City, he found that there were a great many people who were experiencing pain and disillusionment ment forty 38 160 39 which they as they changed the faith commit had received in childhood. percent of the congregation were While about disenchanted ex-Mer- Thomas R. Goldsmith Interview, U-I 061, Accession 814. Thomas R. Goldsmith Interview, U-I061, Accession 814. |
