What We Believe
While we draw motivation from the world’s great faith traditions, we also look to many other sources for knowledge, guidance, and inspiration. We believe religious wisdom and spiritual insights are an ongoing process and we encourage open and responsible development of our individual spirituality and conscience.
We come together to share our passions and resources in order that we may build a better life for ourselves, our community, and our world.
Through worship, programs, classes, social events, and outreach we cultivate our values and put our faith into action in our social justice work.
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The people of our church together have chosen to be
A Nuclear-Free Zone: Our congregation has taken a stand against the use of war and violence as a political tool. During the Vietnam War, our church provided sanctuary to draft resisters.
A Smoke-free environment: Our congregation encourages behaviors that keep our bodies healthy and our minds clear and curious. Our ethical principles call us to leave our world and environment in better shape than we received it.
A Supporter of a Woman’s Right to choose birth control or abortion.
Our Principles
Principles:
1st Principle: The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
2nd Principle: Justice, equity, and compassion in human relations;
3rd Principle: Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
4th Principle: A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
5th Principle: The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
6th Principle: The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
7th Principle: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
8th Principle: We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.
Our Sources
Words and deeds of prophetic people that 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 call us to respond to God’s love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
Humanist teachings 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.