christian voicEs in unitarian universalism

Dave Dawson: “I share a desire for the freedom to test the outer limits of my Christian faith. Within my church I am not told I am wrong, just looked at quizzically when I say I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ…I remain a UU Christian as a witness to those in mainline Christianity that, yes, universal salvation is alive and well, and it is a beautiful option for those people mired in shame-based churches."

Anita Farber-Robertson: “It was not, however, going to be enough to want Jesus in my life. I was going to have to claim him, and let him claim me. I was going to have to say, “Yes, this is my path. You are my guide, my teacher, and my savior, for without you my soul would get brittle, my mouth grow bitter, my heart hard.”

Terry Burke: “My baptism remains central to my religious self-understanding. As part of the confession of faith that Carl Scovel had me write, I said, “I believe that God seeks a loving, dialogical relationship with humanity, and that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ calls us to reflect that sacrificial love in our lives. The cross and the faithful community proclaim that it is more important to love than to survive and that love is stronger than death.”

Victoria Weinstein: “Who is Jesus Christ to me? He is both a teacher of the Way, and the Way itself. For one who has always had a hard time grasping the concept of God, let alone developing a working definition of God, Jesus both points me toward a definition of God and then lives that definition. Jesus Christ is the freedom that laughs uproariously at the things of this world, while loving me dearly for being human enough to lust after them. He is my soul’s safety from all harm. He is the avatar of aloneness, a compassionate and unsentimental narrator of the soul’s exile on earth, and proof of the soul’s triumphant homecoming at the end of the incarnational struggle. He is not afraid to put his hands anywhere to affect healing. He mourns, and weeps, and scolds, and invites. He is life more abundant and conqueror of the existential condition of fear.”

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June 23, 2010: “I am just writing to acknowledge safe receipt of the 3 books that I recently ordered from you which have arrived exceedingly quickly.  In fact, the estimated delivery time for another that I ordered at the same time from Amazon in the USA is around 17 August!

Many thanks for your very efficient service.  I also wish to congratulate you on the UUCF website which is most interesting and stimulating."

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September 8, 2009 : “I have signed up for a monthly pledge. ... I am a member of the bible study list.  My family is the only UU Christians we know. We live in Chickasha Oklahoma.  I am an *escapee* from fund. Baptist.

Unlike many UU’s, my husband is ‘working class’. He works overnight at a Wal-Mart. I teach in a urban school in Oklahoma City.  We are both very liberal in a very conservative town.  I also have a fifteen year old son who we are homeschooling.  We aren’t a member of any of the local HS support groups, because I can’t sign the ‘statement of belief’.”

Thanks so much for having the great website!
Catherine

May, 2009:  "The latest issue of the Good News is excellent. I especially enjoyed the sermon, "Something We Do." It is unfortunate that there was not a UUCF group in Little Rock when I abandoned the UU "Church" (about the least church-like organization I know of) years ago.

Keep up the good work. Who knows, maybe the organization will at least acknowledge its roots some day, even if it doesn't return to them."

Bettye

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