Choosing "We"

The Winter 2005 UUWorld talks about "Our Shared Faith," an excerpt from the COA report, "Engaging Our Theological Diversity." Once again, I find myself saying, "Now this I can live with." (Click the post title for a link to the full article)

Three years of study and conversation have not brought us to a complete consensus about a common core to our faith. Yet we have found much common ground along the way. . . . Respecting the integrity of individual perspective, we offer the following statements as descriptive of who Unitarian Universalists are theologically:

We are a grounded faith.

We are an ecological faith.

We are a profoundly human faith.

We are a responsible faith.

We are an experiential faith.

We are a free faith.

We are an imaginative faith.

We are a relational faith.

We are a covenantal faith.

We are a curious faith.

We are a reasonable faith.

We are a hopeful faith.

We would do well to become a more embodied faith...
a more mindful faith...
more prophetic faith,
a more risk-taking faith.