November/December 2002 · www.uuworld.org

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Christmas Beatitudes

Blessed are they who have vision enough to behold a guiding star in the dark mystery which girdles the earth; blessed are they who have imagination enough to detect the music of celestial voices in the midnight hours of life; blessed are they who have faith enough to contemplate a world of peace and justice in the midst of present wrong and strife.
        Blessed are they who have wisdom enough to know that the kingdom of heaven is very close at hand, and that all may enter in who have eyes to see and ears to hear and hearts to understand.

— THE REV. DAVID RHYS WILLIAMS

Social activist and minister of First Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York, from 1928 to 1958, and a signer of the first Humanist Manifesto. Excerpted from We Speak of Life (Beacon Press, 1955).

features November/December 2002 · VOL XVI NO 6

Why Dr. King Wasn't a UU
Racism wasn't the only barrier that kept the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from becoming a Unitarian. /BY ROSEMARY BRAY McNATT

Adventures in Fellowship
The fellowship movement transformed the UUA, spreading congregations far and wide. A look back at a bold experiment in growth. /BY WARREN R. ROSS

On the cover: A boy with a homemade toy assault rifle at the Maslakh refugee camp in western Afghanistan. Photograph by David Zucchino.

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