The Young People's Religious Union (YPRU) was a Unitarian

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organization founded in 1896. The organization celebrated by the Unitarian Young People's Sunday held annual meetings beginning in 1918 through 1950. Of note was the annual conference held at the

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in 1935. Topics discussed at meetings of the organization included Christian Patriotism. It was superseded by

Liberal Religious Youth Liberal Religious Youth (LRY) was an autonomous, North American youth organization affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). LRY was unique as a church youth group in that it was governed solely by its members, who were gen ...

in 1953, as Unitarianism and

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came ever-closer together, but before the official consolidation in 1961.

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