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Oct 21, 2012 · Jack Mendelsohn, minister emeritus of the First Parish in Bedford, Massachusetts, was the thirteenth senior minister of the historic Federal Street/Arlington Street Church in Boston from 1959 to 1969. He is the 1997 recipient of the Award for Distinguished Service to the Cause of Unitarian Universalism.
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The years 1969-1978 found him working at the First Unitarian Society of Chicago until he moved his ministry to the First Parish in Bedford, MA where he served from 1979-1988. Rev. Mendelsohn retired and began his next career as an interim minister at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara.
Ordained a Unitarian minister in 1945, Jack Mendelsohn’s service has spanned the merger of our two historic faiths, their testing in the fire of the black empowerment movement, and their transformation by feminist principles.
- Emily Mace
Ordained a Unitarian minister in 1945, Jack Mendelsohn’s service has spanned the merger of our two historic faiths, their testing the fire of the black empowerment movement, and their transformation by feminist principles.
Oct 22, 2012 · In the world of Unitarian Universalism, Jack Mendelsohn, who died October 11, 2012, at the age of 94, singularly exemplified the possibility and power of human agency to make a difference.
Oct 30, 2012 · Nothing is settled! Mendelsohn exclaimed. Mendelsohn, our eras leading humanist advocate of liberal religion and Unitarian Universalism, and who devoted his life to racial, gender and...
Oct 22, 2012 · The Unitarian ministry. In 1944, the author described his path to the Unitarian ministry—and protested discrimination against women in the ministry. From the archives: Jack Mendelsohn published the following essay in the July 1944 issue of the American Unitarian Association’s magazine, the Christian Register, a forerunner of UU World.
