Scotty McLennan

Scotty McLennan

The Rev. William (Scotty) McLennan is a Unitarian Universalist minister, lawyer, and educator, currently teaching ethics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was the University Chaplain at Tufts for sixteen years and Dean for Religious Life at Stanford for fourteen years. ​(He is also the inspiration for cartoonist Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury character, the Rev. Scot Sloan.) He is the author of Christ for Unitarian Universalists: A New Dialogue with Traditional Christianity (2016), Jesus Was a Liberal: Reclaiming Christianity for All (2009), and Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew up with Has Lost its Meaning (2000).

Learn more about Scotty McLennan on UUA.org.

By Scotty McLennan

  • Our life’s ultimate meaning
    Scotty McLennan

    ‘Salvation’ isn’t a word Unitarian Universalists use much anymore.

  • Be open to resurrection
    Scotty McLennan

    We need to be open to resurrection—looking up, not down; listening, not stopping up our ears; feeling deeply rather than numbing ourselves with the daily routine.

  • Breath is life
    Scotty McLennan

    Defending abortion from a liberal Christian perspective.

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