Thanks, I needed that. Pushing that rock up the mountain time after time is tiresome...
I want to address that ‘little red schoolhouse’ comment. I think it’s become apparent that the Unitarian Church practiced some form of outreach and the Professor Feldman who was attached to the U of HI was instrumental in bringing SUBUD to the East-West Centre, and that’s possibly where both Alice Dewey and Stanley Ann Dunham, maybe her parents also, became members of the Cult. But best be cautious about the ‘communist’ tag for its congregation, there’s an example of something similar connected with Mercer Island High School.
One of the teachers there was terribly maligned as a communist, but when we looked deeper, that man was far from it, he had given his pupils ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand to read.
And the actual communist member of the faculty who was questioned in that regard, was never mentioned.
Stenhouse iirc.
Interfaithing
by reynold ruslan feldman, ph.d
In May 1961, a year after receiving my B.A. in English, I was opened in Subud. That took place in Chicago. At the time I was also attending the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Hindu Fellowship near where I lived. Back at Yale Graduate School that fall and an isolated member, I began studying Indonesian and hanging around with “people who looked like Bapak.” It wasn’t until the fall of 1969 in Honolulu, with Mas Prio Hartono a recent houseguest, that I first tried the Muslim Ramadan Fast. It was challenging, to say the least, with world-class headaches appearing every day by three. But with Muslim students and professors at the East-West Center, where I was working, for companions, it was a dramatic experiment for me—one that I have since repeated 36 times.
My road to active interest in interreligious matters was less direct. As an assistant professor of English at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa and, for a year, as intercultural activities officer at the adjoining East-West Center, I was tapped by the Lutheran campus pastor to serve on the University’s interfaith council as a faculty member representing “Team Lutheran.”
http://www.subud-sica.org/index.php?hkat=7&ukat=24
“In 1955, the chairman of the Mercer Island school board, John Stenhouse, testified before the House Un-American Activities Subcommittee that he had been a member of the Communist Party.”
The Chicago Tribune mentions a description of the Dunham’s chosen church as “The Little Red Church on the Hill”. According to its own website, East Shore Unitarian Church got that name because of, “Well-publicized debates and forums on such controversial subjects as the admission of ‘Red China’ to the United Nations....” The fact that John Stenhouse once served as church president might also have contributed to the “red” label.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/barack_obama_red_diaper_baby_1.html