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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.
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
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 the fire of the black empowerment movement, and their transformation by feminist principles.
- Emily Mace
Oct 22, 2012 · With human agency at the center, Jack Mendelsohn is largely responsible for making social justice essential to the DNA of Unitarian Universalist identity. Mendelsohn entered our ministry with a single goal: to make the world a better place.
I was the leader of the walk-out from the General Assembly. I was labeled a non-institutionalist—I put special interests over the institutional interests of the denomination, and all that kind of thing. And I’ve had to live with that for all these years.
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.
