Universalist historians Hosea Ballou II and J. W. Hanson ( 1899 ) have advanced that Pamphilius was a teacher of universal reconciliation, however this appears to be based on association with Origen, where modern research shows this to be a misunderstanding of Patristic conceptions of apokatastasis.

J. W. Hanson ( 1899 ) and other Universalist Church of America historians read that Marcellus's theology included a belief in universalism, that all people would eventually be saved.

Wacław Hryniewicz ( 2007 ) argues that Brocks translation ( 1995 ) of the Second Part of Isaac's writings on Gehenna ( discovered 1983 ) confirm claims of earlier Universalist historians such as J. W. Hanson ( 1899 ) that Isaac was an advocate of universal reconciliation.

The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 respected leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baha ' i Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

Many Unitarian Universalist churches celebrate observances associated with other religious traditions, including Buddhist-style meditation groups, Jewish Seder, Yom Kipur and Passover dinners, iftaar meals ( marking the breaking of Ramadan fast for Muslims ), and Christmas Eve / Winter Solstice services.

Non-regional newspapers have been published there, including the American Union, The Free Press and the Universalist Herald, as well as the local papers the Franklin County Register, and the Canon Echo.

Christian Universalists such as Hosea Ballou argued that Jesus taught Universalist principles including universal reconciliation and the divine origin and destiny of all souls, and that these teachings were further developed by Saint Paul, Saint Peter, and Saint John the Apostle.

Universalists, including Hosea Ballou and J. W. Hanson, claim Macrina as a Universalist in her teachings, citing works which they believe demonstrate Macrina's belief that the wicked in purgatory would all eventually confess Christ.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries several histories published by Universalists, including Hosea Ballou ( 1829 ), Thomas Whittemore ( 1830 ), John Wesley Hanson ( 1899 ) and George T. Knight ( 1911 ), argued that belief in universal reconciliation was found in early Christianity and in the Reformation, and ascribed Universalist beliefs to Origen, Clement of Alexandria, and others.

Among these were the seven couples who were party to the lawsuit that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage, including Julie Goodridge and Hillary Goodridge, who were the first to apply for a license in Boston and whose eight-year old daughter Annie was their ringbearer and flower girl at their wedding at the Unitarian Universalist Association of Boston.

The Council on American Islamic Relations joined 50 other organizations, including Amnesty International, the Sikh Coalition, the Japanese American Citizens League and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in signing a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi comparing the hearings to those held by Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and calling them " divisive and wrong ", and " an affront to fundamental freedoms "

* March 20, 2004: Six Unitarian Universalist ministers — including one of the two ministers charged earlier — defy the District Attorney by performing 25 more same-sex marriage ceremonies in New Paltz.

In October 1940, Field resigned his post in Geneva to become director of the American Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's relief mission in Marseilles with his wife Herta in 1941, providing relief for endangered Jewish refugees including antifascists and leftists, and helped many to flee to Switzerland.

Many church communities provide for their adherents including St. Thomas ' Anglican, Brooklin United, St. Leo's Roman Catholic, Burn's Presbyterian ( actually located in Ashburn ), Renaissance Baptist, Hebron Christian Reform, Unitarian Universalist Congregation Of Durham, and Brooklin Village Church.

Hosea Ballou ( April 30, 1771 – June 7, 1852 ) was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.

* Hosea Ballou ( 1771 – 1852 ) Universalist theologian and minister

Saloman, Bishop of Bassorah, and the later Universalist historian Hosea Ballou II claimed Theodore as a Universalist, but others contend his views of apokatastasis do not clearly demonstrate this.

The 18th century saw the establishment of the Universalist Church in America, in part due to the efforts of Hosea Ballou

Hosea Ballou has been called the " father of American Universalism ," along with John Murray ( minister ), who founded the first Universalist church in America in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1774.

In 1821, following a short visit by Hosea Ballou of Boston, the “ First Independent Universalist Society of the City of Hartford ” was formed and the first minister was called.

Ballou preached at Barnard, Vermont and surrounding towns in 1801 — 1807 ; at Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1807 — 1815 ; at Salem, Massachusetts in 1815 — 1817 ; and, as pastor of the Second Universalist Church in Boston, from December 1817 until his death there.

Ballou has been called the " father of American Universalism ," along with John Murray, who founded the first Universalist church in America.

Ballou, sometimes called an " Ultra Universalist ," differed from Murray in that he divested Universalism of every trace of Calvinism, and opposed legalism and trinitarian views.

Ballou also argued that some Universalist principles were taught or foreshadowed in the Old Testament.

White supremacists beat up white Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb later that day in Selma.

* March 11 – White Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb, beaten by White supremacists in Selma, Alabama on March 9 following the second march from Selma, dies in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

The First Universalist Church of Sharpsville and Jonas J.

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In 1843 the Universalist Rev J. M. Day published an article " Was John Wesley a Restorationist?

The Universalist Church of America historian J. W. Hanson ( 1899 ) argued that Pantaenus " must, beyond question " have taught Universalism to Clement of Alexandria and Origen.

Congregationalism is not limited only to organization of Christian congregations ; the principles of congregationalism have been inherited by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Canadian Unitarian Council.

Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.

In 1961 there were three Universalist churches with 68 members, and three Icelandic and eleven English-speaking Unitarian churches with 3, 476 members, and in addition 22 Unitarian fellowships with 773 members.

The Canadian Unitarian Universalist youth of the day disapproved of this change in relationship.

While the name of the organization is the Canadian Unitarian Council, the CUC includes congregations with Unitarian, Universalist, Unitarian Universalist and Universalist Unitarian in their names.

Within the Protestant tradition in England, 17th century Mystic, Universalist and founder of the Philadelphian Society Jane Leade wrote copious descriptions of her visions and dialogues with the " Virgin Sophia " who, she said, revealed to her the spiritual workings of the universe.

On July 23, 2004, he was married in a handfasting ceremony to a former vice-president of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, Phaedra Heyman Bonewits.

Some member groups have only a few hundred members ; while the largest, the Unitarian Universalist Association, has over 200, 000 members and is larger than all the other member groups put together.

The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) became particularly interested in the establishment of a council when it had to deal with an increasing number of applications for membership from congregations outside North America.

* Australian and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association ( ANZUUA ), 500 members.

* Unitarian Universalist Association, USA, 157, 920 members.

* Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines founded 1954, 2000 members.

* Unitarian Universalist Society of Finland, 22 members.

* Unitarian Universalist Society of Spain, 55 members.

* Unitarian Universalist Association of Sri Lanka, 100 members.

Universalist theories are generally forms of moral realism, though exceptions exists, such as the subjectivist ideal observer and divine command theories, and the non-cognitivist universal prescriptivism of R. M.

The Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, or CUUPs, encourages their member chapters to " use practices familiar to members who attend for worship services but not to follow only one tradition of paganism.

In later years he joined the Austin, Texas, Unitarian Universalist congregation and was an active participant in that church.

Universalist scholars such as Steven Pinker often see Malotki's study as a final refutation of Whorf's claim about Hopi, whereas relativist scholars such as John A Lucy and Penny Lee have criticized Malotki's study for mischaracterizing Whorf's claims and for forcing Hopi grammar into a pregiven model of analysis that doesn't fit the data.

Lenneberg was also one of the first cognitive scientists to begin development of the Universalist theory of language which was finally formulated by Noam Chomsky in the form of Universal Grammar, effectively arguing that all languages share the same underlying structure.