Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

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

The 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.

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.

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

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

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