come-outers

At the same time, many of the come-outers brought with them a fear of religion from their painful growing-up days in more dogmatic churches, so ministers had to work with that fear, reframing conventional theological language so these folks could feel safe to explore new forms of spirituality.

Marilyn Sewell: Why Unitarians and Universalists Belong Together: A Fifty-Year Recollection Marilyn Sewell 2011

At the same time, many of the come-outers brought with them a fear of religion from their painful growing-up days in more dogmatic churches, so ministers had to work with that fear, reframing conventional theological language so these folks could feel safe to explore new forms of spirituality.

Marilyn Sewell: Why Unitarians and Universalists Belong Together: A Fifty-Year Recollection Marilyn Sewell 2011

At the same time, many of the come-outers brought with them a fear of religion from their painful growing-up days in more dogmatic churches, so ministers had to work with that fear, reframing conventional theological language so these folks could feel safe to explore new forms of spirituality.

Marilyn Sewell: Why Unitarians and Universalists Belong Together: A Fifty-Year Recollection Marilyn Sewell 2011

At the same time, many of the come-outers brought with them a fear of religion from their painful growing-up days in more dogmatic churches, so ministers had to work with that fear, reframing conventional theological language so these folks could feel safe to explore new forms of spirituality.

Marilyn Sewell: Why Unitarians and Universalists Belong Together: A Fifty-Year Recollection Marilyn Sewell 2011

Among these people were some of the oddest of the odd; those who rode every conceivable hobby; some of all religions; bond and free; transcendental and occidental; antislavery and proslavery; come-outers, communists, fruitists and flutists; dreamers and schemers of all sorts.

Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

Did it not seem strange, you may ask, that these radical thinkers and "come-outers" from ordinary forms of society, should turn with pleasure to the emanations of a profoundly conservative church?

Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

(Laughter) If we exchange the protection under which we have thriven, and are stampeded by the rural come-outers into launching into free trade, all I have got to say is that we will lose a mighty fine horse and find a mighty poor cart, and it will take us a long and dreary journey before we get that cart to the city of Prosperity.

The Outlook for Canada 1922

These religious denominations were really political parties, and while the Puritans belonged to neither, calling themselves Independents, their hearts were with the persecuted Presbyterians, because they were come-outers for conscience 'sake, while the Episcopalians never were.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

These articles came to have a special value to the thoughtful "artists" of the stage, and were at last made into a little book, which sold several hundred copies, besides bringing him to the notice of a few congenial cranks and come-outers who met in an old tavern far down in the old city.

The Light of the Star A Novel Hamlin Garland 1900

At the close, Dr. Richmond (one of our most intelligent and active come-outers, last from the Liberty party) offered a series of resolutions, strongly commendatory to Douglass and myself, which were unanimously adopted by a tremendous 'Ay!'

Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator. 1895