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.
James Luther AdamsReligious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.
James Luther AdamsThe free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.
James Luther AdamsThe faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.
James Luther Adams