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The Universal Life Church was founded by Kirby J. Hensley, "a self-educated Baptist minister who was deeply influenced by his reading in world religion". [4] Religious scholar James R. Lewis wrote that Hensley "began to conceive of a church that would, on the one hand, offer complete freedom of religion, and could, on the other hand, bring all people of all religions together, instead of ...
The Universal Life Church (or ULC) is a religious organization that offers anyone semi-immediate ordination as a ULC minister free of charge. The organization states that anyone can become a minister immediately, without having to go through the pre-ordination process required by other religious faiths. The ordination application, however, must ...
Hensley founded the Universal Life Church in 1962. He remained president of the church until his death on March 19, 1999. He remained president of the church until his death on March 19, 1999. He compiled many sermons and once appeared on 60 Minutes (also available in printed version — final highlight on page 24, still with Morley Safer , who ...
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Father Michael Kelly, photographed 1979, when he was associate pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Church in Modesto. Instead, Blaire assigned Kelly to a new assignment at St. Andrew Parish in Calaveras ...
Lewis Ashmore. Lewis Leland Ashmore (October 18, 1931 – March 24, 2008) [1] was a 20th-century American religious leader and a member of the board of directors and the founding vice president of the Universal Life Church founded by Kirby J. Hensley.
The Universal Life Church, founded as the "Life Church" in 1959 by Kirby J. Hensley in Modesto, California, has long offered ordination by mail and has been at the centre of multiple court cases in which it has sought equal recognition with other denominations on freedom of religion grounds. In 1970, the US Army's Office of the Chief of ...