You Can Sit Here Any Time

While wandering through Devon on a trip to England a couple of years ago, we came upon the Sidmouth Unitarian Church, the “Dissenter of Sidmouth”, founded in 1710,

Dissenter of Sidmouth

Dissenter of Sidmouth

and we were inspired by the Dissenter Wall.

The Dissenter Wall

The Dissenter Wall — You Can Sit Here Any Time

“You can sit here any time, all ages and beliefs are welcome.”

We shall aspire to this motto.

Trying Religion: Embracing the New Universalism

“With the seventh principle as a calling to the very wisdom of our hearts of how and why the individual is precious, that we are completely woven out of each other and the cosmos itself in a living song of intimacy is where we find our completeness.”

A Meditation on the First & Seventh Principles of Unitarian Universalism as a Saving Message, Together With a Buddhist Midrash

Delivered at the 2014 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, 28 June 2014, Providence, Rhode Island by James Ishmael Ford, Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church of Providence
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