Horace Westwood

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Horace Westwood (17 August 1884 - 24 December 1956)

Westwood, who was born in Wakefield, England, became an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1906 and became a pastor at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, until 1908.

In 1910 he joined the Unitarian Church and was pastor successively at the First Unitarian Church, Youngstown, Ohio (1910-12); All Soul's Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (1912-19); and First Church, Toledo, Ohio (1919-27). He was minister at large for the Unitarian Church (1927-33) and for the First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, California (1934-45).

An author, he wrote the following:

The Problem of Salvation - the Unitarian Answer (1927)

The Crowded Inn (1927)

What the Bible Means to Me: The Modernist Interpretation of the Scriptures (1927)

The Christianity of Christ (1927)

To the Galilean: A Psalm" (1928)

Legend and Fulfilment (1929)

Needed: Liberal Evangelism (1932)

Do We Need A New Morality? (1933)

God and the Coming Religion (1935)

The Challenge of Unitarianism (1935)

The Liberal Church of the Future (1935)

This Do and Live (1938)

Seven Ways of Life (1938)

Prophets of Darkness and Apostles of Light (1938)

Apostle of Darkness and Prophet of Light (1939)

The Great Avowal: Daily Meditations for the Lenten Season 1939 (1939)

Five Ways of Life (1947)

And So You Never Pray! (1948)

Legends from Genesis and the World Today (1948)

Unfinished Pattern: My First Fifty Years 1884 - 1934 (1999)

Westwood studied psychic research for a number of years and described his personal attitudes in There Is a Psychic World (1949).