Records, 1978.
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Unitarian Universalist Association
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Paul Nathaniel Carnes (1921-1979) earned an AB from Indiana University in 1942. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army, and on Christmas Day, 1942, he was captured by German forces in North Africa and spent the duration of the war as a German P.O.W. Following World War II, he enrolled in Harvard Divinity School, where he earned an STB in 1948. He served Unitarian parishes in Ohio, Tennessee, and New York, and served as president of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1977 to 1979. He is the a...
Beacon Press
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The Beacon Press, a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association, traces its beginnings to 1854 when the American Unitarian Association raised $50,000 for a Book Fund Project. The AUA "issued an urgent call for liberal works that would meet the spiritual needs of the age." Until 1950, the strength of the Press was in history, biography, and a locus in religious thought and religious freedom. Melvin Arnold became the director of the Press in the late 1940s, and he transformed it into a wi...
Friends of the Beacon Press, Inc.
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Friends of the Beacon Press, Inc. was organized in 1978 to prevent the Unitarian Universalist Association from selling Beacon Press to a commercial enterprise. The group was formed as a non-profit membership corporation to purchase the Press. From the description of Records, 1978. (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269368859 ...
