“JOHN HAYNES HOLMES” - Bucky Rogers, Harvard Divinity School

THE PROJECT

Unitarian Universalist churches have long been home to both radicals and institution-builders. John Haynes Holmes was both of these, and it allowed him to open his church to a wider segment of the citizenry; he lived out the calling to “radical inclusivity.” Having been a founding member of the ACLU and the NAACP, he left the AUA because of a disagreement about pacifist stances toward WWI and founded the Community Church of New York. This project seeks to recover the theological underpinnings of Holmes’ work that drove him to be so prolific and visionary.

FURTHER READING

Bucky Rogers: “The Contributions of John Haynes Holmes to Early 20th Century Liberal Theology”

FOR MORE INFORMATION

http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/johnhaynesholmes.html

http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/ware/john_haynes_holmes.php

http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/Gandhi/Greatest-Man.php

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