(USA Today) Unitarian Universalists growing nationwide

Instead of a common theology, Unitarian Universalists have a set of common values. They believe in the worth and dignity of every human being, she said.

That belief in the individual choice in faith can been seen in a practice known as water communion. In most churches, communion bread and wine start in a common vessel and then are passed out to church members. In water communion, everyone starts with a cup of water and pours it in a common bowl.

“We are bunch of individuals finding our own path ”” but we are doing it as a group,” [Nathan] De Lee said.

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6 comments on “(USA Today) Unitarian Universalists growing nationwide

  1. Archer_of_the_Forest says:

    Wait a minute…stop the presses. No UU church I know has any sort of sacramental Communion, water or otherwise. Where is this coming from?

  2. James Manley says:

    It’s called “the mingling of the waters.”

  3. Jim the Puritan says:

    At the UU church here, the main thing they are into is polyandry.

  4. Jim the Puritan says:

    Oops, meant polyamory.
    Anyway, it’s a UU “ministry,” at least here. They are way beyond “gay rights.”
    http://www.uupa.org/
    Anyway, have a group here practicing Holy Sex. I kind of remember the Apostle Paul talking about this, but I could be mistaken.

  5. Paula Loughlin says:

    UU is the Oakland of religious denominations.

  6. Second Citizen says:

    It’s been said before, but it’s too true to be trite: Those who believe in nothing will believe in anything. I can see a friend in Georgia going down this path…her Episcopal church already does a “Celtic” service that’s better attended than the regular service.