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

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

A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.

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

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.

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