**Take the recent Washington Post op-ed by Rachel Held Evans. Evans pinpoints what she sees as the real problem when she chastises Christianity for being too “judgmental” and “exclusive.” In other words, she yearns for a church more open-minded and inclusive of alternative ideas, beliefs and lifestyles.**
There is such a place. Unitarians will welcome people who want was she is searching for.
RE: Unitarians will welcome people who want was she is searching for.
How do Unitarians explain the mutually exclusive claims of say, Islam and Christianity?
Islam tells us that: 1) Jesus is NOT the Son of God; 2) Jesus did NOT die on the cross. Those are BASIC Christian tenets without which there is no Christianity.
Is the Unitarian Church telling us that you can believe in both?
If so, they are teaching us to believe in nonsense.
My niece attended a UU church shortly after arriving here in the South. At first she loved it and the people. One day when we were discussing her church, she mentioned that there was talk in the church about how they got lots of visitors but fewer and fewer joiners. A few months later she hardly spoke of her church and when I asked how things were going she said there was dissension in the church. The new (female) pastor was great in her opinion, but several regular members were grumbling that she “preached” too much. A few months later she stopped going there altogether. It’s a flaky church with very prickly and demanding people.