Members of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship hold a variety of beliefs.\u00a0 Some are Humanists.<\/p>\n
Their take on religion is grounded in what\u2019s natural, not supernatural.\u00a0 They emphasize the potential of human beings, rather than relying on God. They consider social responsibility more important\u00a0than\u00a0personal\u00a0piety.\u00a0\u00a0They value\u00a0the guidance of reason and the results of science, and they try to avoid idolatries of the mind and spirit.<\/p>\n
Some are atheists, but others believe that the existence or nonexistence of a God matters less than what we each do every day to support\u00a0each other\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0well-being\u00a0of\u00a0our planet. They focus on how ethically they live; they wonder and rejoice in the natural world; and they believe in humans\u2019 capacity to dismantle injustice and care for one another.<\/p>\n
As UU Rev. Ginger Luke once said, \u201cWhen I look at a sleeping baby or the wrinkled, arthritic hands of my mother; when I listen to Kiri te Kanawa\u00a0sing; and when my eleven-year-old grandson gives me a hug and says, \u201cI love you, Grammie,\u201d I am stopped in my tracks at the wonder of life.\u00a0 I pause with great awe, and I am filled with\u00a0gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n
UU Rev.\u00a0Kaaren\u00a0Anderson also finds transcendence in human relationships.\u201d\u00a0 She acknowledges that \u201cSure, people have let me down many times.\u00a0 But they also have repeatedly saved me from a selfish me-ism that diminished my well-being. They\u2019ve loved me so fiercely that I was brought back from despair, loneliness, and isolation. They\u2019ve cajoled me into my better self and challenged me to aspire to possibilities that I feared were beyond me. They saw capacities in me that I couldn’t see in myself. Their Humanism now has transcended my intellect, buried itself deep inside me, and continues to inspire and heal me daily.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Members of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship hold a variety of beliefs.\u00a0 Some are Humanists. Their take on religion is grounded in what\u2019s natural, not supernatural.\u00a0 They emphasize the potential of human beings, rather than relying on God. They consider social responsibility more important\u00a0than\u00a0personal\u00a0piety.\u00a0\u00a0They value\u00a0the guidance of reason and the results of science, and they … Continue reading What UU Humanists Believe (#107)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8912,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions\/8912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}