“One of the things I love about this tradition is that our faith is covenantal and not confessional—meaning that to some degree, our tradition cares little about what you stand up and say you believe. The evidence of your Unitarian Universalism is embodied in the depth of your relationships: how do you live in relationship to self and other?” -Takiyah Nur Amin
How do you live in relationship to self and others? How does that reflect what you say you believe?
Is this even true, given the bitter struggle over Article 2? What is the new version, if not a list of commandments to believe?
It is no more a list of commandments of things to believe than were the Seven Principles. It is a covenant of values and action.
It isn’t a bitter struggle. It is a joyous welcoming of new ideas to enlighten us and move us to higher heights.
I feel comfortable being real… in real time. (ha) The only thing that would make me hesitate is if being real would hurt another being. What I struggle with are those knee jerk reactions that humans learn, like killing bugs that do no harm. Being aware of all of life is what I always work toward.