08-02-2008, 03:28 AM
Hello
I grew up in a Unitarian Universalist church. Though I'm 21 I've held leadership positions on the district youth steering committee and have represented my church at the UU General Assembly. I also desire to be a minister some day.
Over the past couple years I feel like I've drifted away from my church a bit, partially because I went away to college, but partially because I've felt like it's "too liberal" I consider myself religious, and too often at UU services I feel like I'm attending a sociology seminar more than a church service. I find UU services enlightening, educational, thought provoking, and at times entertaining, but not spiritual or religious that often. So many adult members of the church are former Christians or Catholics, the words God and Jesus are almost never uttered, never discussed, what Unitarianism really is has been hidden, as if when Unitarian and Universalism joined forces they burned all bridges to their past, yet still claim historical Unitarians as their own.
These facts have frustrated and confused me for awhile now, and I'm so glad I finally found out that I'm not the only one who feels this way. When I stumbled across the article "Why the American Unitarian Conference Had to Be Formed" I was aw struck and relieved. I guess now my battle is to find a Unitarian congregation near me (Massachusetts in the summer, New Mexico the rest of the year).
Thanks for making this site
I grew up in a Unitarian Universalist church. Though I'm 21 I've held leadership positions on the district youth steering committee and have represented my church at the UU General Assembly. I also desire to be a minister some day.
Over the past couple years I feel like I've drifted away from my church a bit, partially because I went away to college, but partially because I've felt like it's "too liberal" I consider myself religious, and too often at UU services I feel like I'm attending a sociology seminar more than a church service. I find UU services enlightening, educational, thought provoking, and at times entertaining, but not spiritual or religious that often. So many adult members of the church are former Christians or Catholics, the words God and Jesus are almost never uttered, never discussed, what Unitarianism really is has been hidden, as if when Unitarian and Universalism joined forces they burned all bridges to their past, yet still claim historical Unitarians as their own.
These facts have frustrated and confused me for awhile now, and I'm so glad I finally found out that I'm not the only one who feels this way. When I stumbled across the article "Why the American Unitarian Conference Had to Be Formed" I was aw struck and relieved. I guess now my battle is to find a Unitarian congregation near me (Massachusetts in the summer, New Mexico the rest of the year).
Thanks for making this site