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William G. Sinkford
The Rev. William G. Sinkford (born 1946/47) serves as the senior minister for the First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.firstunitarianportland.org/our-church/ministers-a-staff/minister-bios )〕 He is more widely known for being the seventh president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA), a position he held from 2001 to 2009.〔 His installation as UUA president made him the first African American to lead that organization.〔
==Career==
Between 1970 and 1980 Sinkford held management positions in marketing with Gillette, Avon Products, Johnson Products, and Revlon; he later founded his own business, Sinkford Restorations.〔 Sinkford "turned to ministry" in 1993.〔
In 2001 he became the seventh president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.〔 In 2003, Sinkford said the "main goal of his presidency of the Unitarian Universalist Association was to reclaim a "vocabulary of reverence" within the association; he had been struck by the fact that the association's Purposes and Principles "contain not one piece of traditional religious language, not one word"; it includes generalizations about human dignity, justice and "the interdependent web of all existence," but does not do much "to capture our individual searches for truth and meaning."〔 Sinkford has previously considered himself a "card-carrying atheist" who in 1997, after his comatose son had recovered, began to develop a "prayer life centered on thankfulness and gratefulness to God."〔 William F. Schulz who had served as UUA president from 1985 to 1993, supported Sinkford's efforts to use a "wide lexicon" of religious language, and had "long been critical of the position of some humanists that would sanctify secular language and lock us into a calcified rationalism."〔
Sinkford was succeeded in 2009 by the Rev. Peter Morales.
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