Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Jenkin Lloyd Joneswas a Unitarian minister in the United States. He founded All Souls Unitarian Church in Chicago, Illinois, as well as its community outreach organization, the Abraham Lincoln Centre. A radical modernist, he joined the "Unity Men" and stressed a creedless "ethical basis" as the common element for churches. He tried to move Unitarianism away from a Christian focus and became a prominent pacifist at the time of World War I. He was a founder and long-time editor of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth14 November 1843
CountryUnited States of America
Jenkin Lloyd Jones quotes about
Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.
I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.