Liberal belief in a living tradition
I am generally wary of creeds and concrete statements of belief. This is not a traditional creed but an affirmation about liberal Christianity co-written by the then president of the American Unitarian Association (now UUA). I think it still resonates for those of us who are put off by the mainstream church. I found it on the UU Christian Fellowship website.
“We affirm that liberal Christianity, as held and practiced by the people of our respective churches, is a religious faith of the kind our time requires. We affirm that the spirit of Jesus, long misrepresented by theological orthodoxies and repressed by ecclesiastical controls, must be set free to work its beneficient will in the hearts of men everywhere, liberating their minds, challenging their restricted loyalties, and deepening their hold upon external realities. Such is the faith that is centered in the God who made of one blood, and of one spirit, all the nations of men on all the face of the earth.”
—1947 An Affirmation of Faith in the Power of Liberal Christianity co-written by Frederick May Eliot, president of the AUA
