The vertical axis, you may recall, ran from Ironic to Romantic. The ironic is defined in the context of relying on sense experience, and the romantic meaning faith in the miraculous. There are other churches which teach about a powerful miracle maker, but one whose ways cannot be counted on to bring about happiness, so they combine the Romantic and Tragic. There are others which are found in the quadrant which plays down the miraculous, relying on sense data and science, but still count on there being an ultimate plan in which happy endings will dominate. And then there is the rarer church which teaches that we cannot count on miracles, and we cannot be certain about outcomes.
Life just is, and it is our task to create meanings which make it worthwhile.
Few, but some, of our members believe in a world of miracles in the supernatural sense. Of those skeptical of miracles, half see life as promising happy endings - half do not. Religious liberalism has been critiqued over the years for its unjustifiable optimism. Focusing on human goodness, and stressing the belief that education would ultimately solve what's wrong with the world, we often have had trouble dealing with human or natural tragedies. I grew up utterly and disgustingly optimistic.