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In 1998, President John Buehrens wrote, “The resolutions of the United Nations must be enforced… [T]he consequences of diplomatic failure will belong squarely with Saddam Hussein, as will those of any attempt to use civilians as human shields.”
What do we want to share with the world?
Sinkford responds, “I did not call for the Principles to be rewritten. I spoke of the need for individuals to consider supplementing the language of the Principles with religious language in describing their own faith.”
President William Sinkford tells a Texas newspaper, “We need to be able to say Unitarian Universalists believe there is one God, and that God is a loving God who would condemn no one out of hand.”
William Ellery Channing believed in the reliability of scripture, not its inerrancy.
It’s an easy kind of religion that finds evil only in its opponents; a much better religion helps us see where we ourselves fall short.
We need models of theological and religious conversation that take important questions seriously, but that don’t tell people that they must claim to believe things that they cannot believe.
If our religion is “liberal,” we will use the Bible in liberal ways — which means thoughtfully, critically, rationally, and spiritually
We should continue doing what we do best — support the integrity of multiple individual paths — while also finding ways to speak coherently and theologically about what enables us to do what we do best.