For the Sake of Clarity: Selected Sermons and Addresses Book

	Introduction	13
	On the Consolidation of the Unitarian Universalist Association	16
	Reply to Doctoral Degree Award Presented by the Starr King School for the Ministry in San Rafael, California	17
	Presentation of the Holmes-Weatherly Award to Dr. Fritchman, 1969	20
	Dr. Fritchman's Message to Friends Attending His Tribute Dinner	22
Pt. I	Religion
	For the Sake of Clarity: An Address on What Unitarians Are Not - and What They Are	27
	How Do Unitarians Think of Jesus?	37
	Should the Church Stay Out of Politics?	42
	How Do Unitarians Face Death?	47
	The Church and Anticommunism	52
	That Vastly Overrated Bestseller: The Bible	57
	The Curia and the Bishops: A Discussion of the Second Session of the Vatican II Council	68
	Why Do Churches Panic at the Word "Socialism"?	77
Pt. II	Our Society
	America's Unconscious Giant: The Men and Women of Labor	89
	Do We Have Freedom of the Press?	98
	Is Death Row Necessary?: A Reconsideration of Capital Punishment	109
	Are We Accepting a Cult of Violence?	117
	The Indian in America Today	126
	Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness: The Informer in Contemporary America	136
	The Contribution of the Negro Woman to American History	145
	On the Taking of Life: Can We Curb Our Passion for Violence?	155
	All Persons Held as Slaves: The Centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation	166
	The Morality of Civil Disobedience	176
	Do Women Like It as It Is?	184
Pt. III	Government
	How Free Should Free Speech Be?	197
	Statement before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel	209
	Statement Following a Service at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles Concerning the House Un-American Activities Committee	211
	Statements by Rev. Fritchman and the Board of Trustees of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles Concerning HUAC and the National Conference of the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born	214
	Why I Am Not Cooperating with the Hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities: Statement Before the Committee	216
	Discovering Our Arab Neighbors: An Address on the Aspirations of the Peoples of the Middle East	218
	Celebrating Our Test Oath Victory with a Forward Look	227
	Address at the Plenary Session of the Tenth Congress of the World Council of Peace in Stockholm, Sweden	236
	Our Bad Conscience about Panama: The Discovery of a Lost Word - "Imperialism"	241
	The Curse of Vietnam: Brutalization of the American Soul	250
	The Colossus of the North: The United States in Latin America Today	260
	Toward Sanity in the Israeli-Arab Struggle: What Have We Learned in the Past Four Months?	269
	And Who Are Our Allies?	279
Pt. IV	: The Human Condition
	Out of This World: The Curse of Cynicism	289
	Are Mixed Marriages Successful?	296
	Frozen and Bleeding Hearts	305
	The Challenge and Delights of Getting Older	314
Pt. V	Biographical Sketches
	Schweitzer, Gandhi, and the Common Man	327
	The Paralysis of the Liberal: An Address Celebrating the 206th Birthday of Thomas Jefferson	335
	The Rediscovery of Thomas Jefferson on His 219th Birthday	343
	George Bernard Shaw: An Appreciation	351
	A Forgotten American: Eugene V. Debs	361
	Michael Servetus: Advocate of Liberty	373
	Eulogy to Dr. Albert Einstein	380
	Clarence Darrow: Citizen Extraordinary - A Memorial Tribute	382
	John Milton: Advocate of Freedom - Tribute on His 250th Birthday	390
	The Hammer and the Forge: Theodore Parker - A Centenary Sermon	400
	Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Dr. Linus Pauling and Ava Helen Pauling	408
	Books by Stephen H. Fritchman	413
	Addresses by Stephen H. Fritchman	415