In Unitarian Universalism, you can bring your whole self: your full identity, your questioning mind, your expansive heart. By creating meaningful communities that draw from many wisdom traditions, we are embodying a vision “beyond belief:” a vision of peace, love, and understanding.

Worship is our practice of exploring, connecting, and creating the ways that our individual lives fit into a larger whole. When we regularly seek wisdom and compassion beyond ourselves, we create opportunities for transformation.

We don’t all share the same beliefs. Our religious tradition does not expect or require consensus. We do not recite a creed or adhere to a particular religious dogma.

Worship in this church embodies more than one way of experiencing the world and understanding the sacred. Our “Living Tradition” draws from six sources of inspiration from scripture to poetry to modern-day heroes. How do you experience the world? How do you make meaning? What beliefs and traditions are yours?

These are the six sources Unitarian Universalists affirm and promote:

• Direct experience of a universal sense of wonder and mystery that prompts spiritual renewal and connection to life’s creative forces;
• Prophetic words and deeds which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and 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 that emphasize reason and science, and warn against intellectual and spiritual fallacies;
• Earth-centered spirituality that teaches us to live in harmony with nature and within the sacred circle of life.

Throughout history, we have moved to the rhythms of mystery and wonder, prophecy, wisdom, teachings from ancient and modern sources, and nature herself.

The Reverend Kathleen Rolenz