Faith is a useful concept for me because I understand it not as an assent to propositions I cannot prove, but as a word of meaning – life meaning (or kind-ing) orientation. It is built through experience and practice and tested insight. Worthy faith is meaning you can trust. You live in it and are […]
“What does it mean to be a people of faith?” asks the Soul Matters guide for February. The packet begins by offering two quotes: “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole stair case,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and “I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, […]
It appears there is a force, a power, a stream of life that runs through everything. Emerson called it The Oversoul. Jung called it the Collective Unconscious. Christians call it The Holy Spirit. Buddhists and Humanists call it The Human Spirit. Unitarian Universalists often call it The Spirit of Life. My Religious Education professor sometimes […]
“Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” – Albert Schweitzer. In this time of tradition, we hold up the conversation of the Unitarian Universalist traditions: voices and experiences of faith reassuring us that “yes, life is like this.” Rev. McKinley thinks back gratefully […]
Unitarian Universalists are composers in community, of community. Our faith tradition gathers around meaning that is composed, not imposed. The community exists in the tension between the boundaries of communal agreements and the freedom of individual experience and choices. We live in a network of shared promises that include, among others, the covenant of life […]
Most of us are doing just that. Hear members speak to their personal sense of meaning, the fullness already present and what they hope to add or change. We will explore the questions: 1. What is a Faith – Filled life? 2. What are the difficulties and challenges to living such a life? 3. What […]
What is faith? you ask. Faith behaves less like a noun that describes a set of beliefs and more like a verb that speaks to the meaning we make and notice with and in our lives. Faith concerns action and intentionality; it organizes the practices we live out. Much of the meaning and satisfaction we […]