Adrian Jones

From the back cover: "The Rev. Wayne Bergthor Arnason is a fourth generation Unitarian Universalist...born in 1950 and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba...He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Harvard Divinity School...He is currently the consultant on Youth Programs for the Unitarian Universalist Association." This work "...is an institutional history of the youth organizations of the Unitarian and Universalist Churches, beginning with the founding of the Young People's Christian Union within the Universalist Church in 1889, the author traces the important programs, conferences, leaders, and transitions in both the North American and the international youth groups." The youth groups evolved and changed separately and eventually merged into the Liberal Religious Youth in 1953. "The merger of the youth organizations anticipated and spurred the Unitarian Universalist merger eight years later. Interspersed between the chapters are personal memoirs and over thirty photographs spanning ninety years.… (mere)