We do not offer absolute truths. We believe that truth is eternally unfolding, that we must commit ourselves to truth as we understand it in these moments, while knowing that new truths may call for new ways of being and doing. Time makes ancient good uncouth. We do not demand submission to religious authority, obedience to pope or bishops or priests. Authority does not require intimacy, relation, or connection.
Free religion depends upon it.
We are looking for the self, the person, who can affirm the community. The Unitarian Universalist theologian, James Luther Adams, said that religious community is a place where you go to practice what it means to be human. And that, I think, is where we have come to on our journey. And perhaps, on reflection, it was a journey we needed to take. Something of value and necessity lay still at the core, waiting for the right time.