A compelling account of West's historic tenure as the second president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. In 1969, his presidency opened with an inherited financial crisis that was quickly followed by the divisive black empowerment controversy, the Pentagon Papers, the pioneering sex-education curriculum, About Your Sexuality and much more. Looking back 30 years later, West addresses the cataclysmic denominational events that occurred at the same time as the Vietnam War, the struggle for racial equality, abortion rights and civil liberties, and explores how these historical events shaped not only his presidency but our liberal religious institutions as well.
"If I were to choose only one word to characterize everything that happened during my presidency, it would be change, institutional change from the way things had been for the first eight years of the UUA's existence. I believe the years covered by the book put our denomination on track for what it would be over the next several decades."
From the Preface