Draft talk:Vern Bennom Grimsley

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Outline of Grimsley's bio

Vern Bennom Grimsley was a campus preacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was most famous for his intellectual engagement with students at University of California, Berkeley of the emerging, unfolding modern scientific worldview, and how one finds faith in a living God in that intellectual development. He recorded most (but not all) of his daily religious radio broadcasts. His theology was Christian theistic unitarian (small 'u'). He emphasized the centrality of personal religious experience, though in a nontrinitarian theology. Sometime in the 1970s, he discovered the Urantia Book and began preaching about Urantia, and his Urantia popularity grew considerably, despite its distinct contrasts from the theological framework of his previous message. Vern Bennom Grimsley died on January 1, 2011, at the age of 71 in Oakhurst, California where he and his wife Nancy had lived for 25 years and from which he ran the Spiritual Renaissance® Institute which he founded.

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