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We believe that there are many paths to religious truth. We're dedicated to freedom of belief, enhancing personal dignity, and improving the quality of life for all. |
Information, education, and opportunities for making the world a better place abound in our congregation.
Here, with people of all ages, races, and religious heritages, is a place where you can broaden your vision, where you can share life's happiest and saddest moments, and where you can work together with others to bring peace and justice to this world.
We have many purposes, many goals, many ways to search for spiritual truth and serve humanity, but with neither creed nor dogma.
In our congregation, an agnostic may sit beside someone who believes in a personal god; at the after-service social hour, a believer in personal immortality may stand chatting with one who accepts "utter extinction." Such are our wide diversities of individual belief.
We are together in our devotion to freedom. We believe that differing religious views are natural and healthy.
Our Sunday School helps children explore religious and ethical questions without doctrines or creeds. Our aim is to help children develop a strong sense of values out of their own experiences and needs.
Our goal is not to impose our ideas on the young, but to encourage their own thinking. Not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own.
Our music, for instance, ranges from Arapaho chants to Beethoven sonatas. We are proud of this richness and diversity in our Sunday morning gatherings. We strive to combine music, meaningful ritual, and an informative message to create a service that will be uplifting and inspiring.
Throughout the year, various programs are offered. We try to present adult religious explorations, discussions on issues of current concern, social events, and opportunities for community service.
We hope you will attend our 9 AM or 11 AM Sunday services and remain for coffee and tea after either service. Walk in. You may find you'll want to stay.
What are the ethical principles of Unitarian Universalism?
Unitarian Universalists take as their ethical guidelines the Statement of Principles and Purposes, which was created in the mid-1980's and accepted by the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association. They affirm and promote the following:
The living tradition we share draws from many sources:
* Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;
* Words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love;
* Wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;
* Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
* Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit.
* Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.
Nothing herein shall be deemed to infringe upon the individual freedom of belief which is inherent in the Universalist and Unitarian heritages or to conflict with any statement of purpose, covenant, or bond of union used by any society unless such is used as a creedal test.
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