Arriving at “truth” merely means you’ve given up the search. Science is open-ended; philosophy is open-ended; all the fine arts are open-ended—this is what creativity is, when every new thing is new. As in art and science and philosophy, stopping the search in religious thinking means you’ve given up any hope of renewal, or creativity.

Religious thinking—thinking about the ultimate meaning and purpose of human life on this planet—must involve both the chance to continuously evolve with time and must offer some hope for the human condition—our condition—itself.

The “Trinsics”: Where are You Coming From? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/2015/11/the-trinsics-where-are-you-coming-from/

http://www.tomschade.com/2014/10/fighting-for-seven-principles.html

An interview with UU minister Rev. Erik Martínez Resly “an interfaith child who grew up to become an inspired community leader” and Lead Organizer of The Sanctuaries, a racially and religiously diverse arts community in Washington, DC.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-katz-miller/when-interfaith-kids-grow_b_8959626.html

Composed by Keith Mesecher for the “Cosmos” celebrations at First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego. The Cosmic All Stars performed all 5 songs live at the world’s first “Evolutionary Revival” February 2008

1) All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

2) Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

3) Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

4) Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

5) In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

From a post from British Unitarian minister Andrew Brown

http://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2016/02/following-in-footsteps-of-hypatiasome.html

For those of you who couldn’t be with us today, or those who were and would like the ten irrational ideas or to hear the music, chants, or guided meditation again, today’s sermon has been added to our website.

Pax,
Lisa

It was wonderful to see those who made it today, and we were thinking of those who couldn’t.  I’m putting together a page of our songs. It has our opening and closing songs, the one we sang today, one we might want to learn, and will have a few more we sing frequently.

From a UU Church of the Larger Fellowship service:

Pax, Lisa