Jenkin Lloyd Jones

This article is about the minister. For his grandson, the newspaper publisher, see Jenkin Lloyd Jones Sr.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Born(1843-11-14)November 14, 1843
Cardiganshire, Wales
DiedSeptember 12, 1918(1918-09-12) (aged 74)
Tower Hill, Wisconsin, U.S.
EducationMeadville Theological Seminary
Spouses
  • Susan Barber
  • Edith Lackersteen
ChildrenRichard Lloyd Jones, Mary Jones
Parent(s)Richard Lloyd Jones, Mary Thomas James
Relatives
ChurchAll Souls Unitarian Church - Chicago, Illinois
Ordained1870
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones (November 14, 1843 – September 12, 1918) was a prominent American Unitarian minister. He founded All Souls Unitarian Church in Chicago, Illinois, as well as its community outreach organization, the Abraham Lincoln Centre. He was a founder and long-time editor of Unity, a liberal religious magazine. He tried to move Unitarianism away from a strictly Christian focus, aligning himself with a group of radical Midwestern ministers known as the "Unity Men" who stressed a creedless "ethical basis" as the common element for churches. At the end of his life, Jones was an outspoken pacifist opposed to U.S. involvement in World War I.

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