Unitarian Bridge

Last week, for the first time in its 133 years, the American Unitarian Association had a contested election for president. Normally, the board of directors nominates a president and the association's annual meeting elects him. But this year the Unitarians found themselves a house more than usually divided: the board's selection of a skilled administrator in onetime Executive Vice President Ernest W. Kuebler, 54, met opposition from those who wanted a representative of the more spiritual side of Unitarianism--especially in view of recent hot debates over whether Unitarians should break with the Christian tradition.

The choice of the spiritually minded, 823 to 720, was tall Dana McLean Greeley, 49, minister of Boston's Arlington Street Church. Said President-elect Greeley: "I have never wished to sunder Unitarianism from Protestantism or Christianity, but I am eager to have it serve as a bridge between the Christian and non-Christian worlds, and I am as ready for it to cultivate close relationships wherever opportunity affords with other great faiths, or lesser faiths, as with Christianity."

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