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Christ for Unitarian Universalists is an engaging and thoughtful inquiry into Christianity for Unitarian Universalists and other spiritual seekers -- including skeptics, non-religious people, liberal Christians, and those who consider themselves "spiritual but not religious." The book has several purposes. The first is to present Christ in an understandable and compelling way to the increasing number of people who do not consider themselves Christian. The second is to present liberal and progressive Christians with the non-dogmatic way that Unitarian Universalists have viewed Christ through the Bible and personal experience. And the third is to promote active dialogue between non-Christians and the nearly 80% of Americans who identify themselves as Christian.
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The Reverend William L. McLennan, Jr. -- better known as "Scotty McLennan" -- is an ordained minister, lawyer, educator, and author. He currently teaches ethics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
McLennan received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1970 as "Scholar of the House," an honorary program for a dozen Yale seniors. His final thesis was a monograph entitled "Computers and Infinity."
He earned both Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and Juris Doctor (J.D.) degrees from Harvard's Divinity and Law Schools in 1975. He was ordained in 1975 as a Unitarian Universalist Christian minister, and admitted that year to the Massachusetts bar. After practicing church-sponsored poverty law in a low-income neighborhood of Boston for a decade and founding the Unitarian Universalist Legal Ministry, he was appointed University Chaplain at Tufts University in Medford, Massachuestts, where he served from 1984 to 2000. He also served as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School between 1988 and 2000. He later was the Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University from 2001-2014.
McLennan is the author of "Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning" (1999) and co-author with Laura Nash of "Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life" (2001) . His "Jesus was a Liberal: Reclaiming Christianity for All" was released in 2009 and "Christ for Unitarian Universalists: A New Dialogue with Traditional Christianity" in 2016.
Scotty McLennan is married to Ellen S. McLennan and they have two sons, Will McLennan and Dan McLennan both of whom are alumni of Stanford University.
McLennan is part of the inspiration for the cartoon character Reverend Scot Sloan in Garry Trudeau's Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon strip "Doonesbury". The character is also based on the late William Sloane Coffin, McLennan's mentor and former Chaplain at Yale University, where McLennan and Trudeau were undergraduate roommates.
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