An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority.

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands of reality, and of those elements in reality that support or threaten meaningful existence.