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While its first leader was a Universalist, Community Church was set up “that there should be ‘no denominational’ nor even ‘Christian sectarians’ among us.” (1) The slogan, “Religions are many but religion is one,” set the tone from the beginning. (2) The founder of the church was Clarence Skinner, dean of the Tufts School of Religion, a Universalist school. Skinner was author of several important books for twentieth century liberal religion: The Social Implications of Universalism, A Religion for Greatness, and Worship and the Well Ordered Mind. While the church was nonsectarian, it eventually affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association in 1968.
In its first seven years the church built its core membership and identity, preparing it for the major venture of worship in Symphony Hall beginning in 1927. Major motivation came from post war shock and disillusion requiring “the task of building a new social order out ...
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