The Rev. William G. Sinkford, the 61-year-old president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, is a Harvard graduate and the first African-American to lead a historically white denomination in the United States.
Unitarians, who practice probably the most liberal of all religions, do not share a creed but hope to help each other grow spiritually. Different Unitarians may draw on elements of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and other world religions.
Sinkford, elected the seventh president of the Unitarian Universalist Association in June 2001, fields some questions here, including his views on Barack Obama's former pastor, from Bill Maxwell, a Times columnist and member of the editorial board who has been a Unitarian since 1969.
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