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Show Unitarianism in Utah on tablet scroll which seal the truth for all or posterity. Perhaps Wallace Stevens had it right when he said that" truth depends upon a walk around the lake." I was jolted last week when I went to speak to the South Valley Unitarian Society, which meets in St. James Episcopal Church. St. James has a large sign on their bulletin board which reads: "If you really love Jesus, then Tithe. Any fool can honk." Clearly there is not much concern here for transformation, just preferable expressions of piety. wish I I make that the notion of clarify importantly, the call to holiness cannot mean the same for all people. The search for what is sacred is bound to pull people into different judgment only religion varies considerably, no - directions. traditions to holy How need can and more The "free church" prompts many from other question our religious character and credibility. Yet the free church is to merely affirms that the search for what be contingent upon doctrinal statements. the limitless sense of holiness be confined to ancient not dogma? Wendell Berry reminds us that we are the belongings of the world, and not its owners. And Unitarians share in the reverence of existence, its mysteries, and its holi ness. Nobody has a corner on It's all pervasive and how to harness the holy. be captured mystifying through particular religious rituals or habits. We search for just a glimmer of holiness which might break through upon us in our trying and busy and taxing and stressful and ordinary lives. About fifty years ago, Frederick May Eliot, president of the and cannot American Unitarian Association, summed up the puzzle of what Unitarians really are all about with these words: "A 346 company of seekers, bounded closely together in their common confession that what they seek is still beyond them." |
