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The Rev. Dr. Jack Mendelsohn is minister emeritus of the First Parish in Bedford, Massachusetts. He was the thirteenth senior minister of the Arlington Street Church in Boston (1959-1969), when the church was prominent for its antiwar and civil rights work. He is the author of several books, including Being Liberal in an Illiberal Age: Why I Am a Unitarian Universalist (new ed., Skinner House, 2006), Channing: The Reluctant Radical (second ed., UUA, 1986), and The Martyrs: Sixteen Who Gave Their Lives for Racial Justice (Harper & Row, 1966).