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Show Thomas R. Goldsmith In the Company of Seekers 4 December 1988 JUST RECENTLY I heard a story which I dare say I feel it although takes place in Montana, Unitarianism than Utah. might a region An is be a purportedly true, apocryphal. It tad even elderly remote more Unitarian man to passed away day, and his widow didn't quite know how to handle the funeral since there was no Unitarian minister for one hundreds of miles. literally church nearest So she went to a Methodist her home, and asked the Methodist minister if she would course minister bit cautious, because bury her husband. Of agreed, but then became a Methodists do have their strict rules. So to the Methodist make sure, she bishop for permission to do the funeral for the Unitarian. The bishop wasn't in, but she left a message called her asking for permission to bury the Unitarian. a telegram arrived from their bishop which many Unitarians as you can." We haven't exactly been a real The next read: day, "Bury as kind of religion. really always are and what we not in Boston Even everybody's practice. got it straight -like the tour gUide who passed by our And there's been some popular confusion about who we headquarters on 25 Beacon Street and said: "On our left, we have the headquarters of the Unitarian Unification Church." We have incurred the ire of of the great theologians of this century, Richard Niebuhr. In his seminal work entitled The Kingdom of God in America he scorns the Unitarian one 341 |
