In this space dwells a vibrant & historic liberal religious community. What do we mean by "liberal religious"? Liberal as in liberation, as in freedom. It means that we are open-minded in approaching life's big questions. We don't think God spoke only once to a small group of people a long time ago; rather, we find the sacred every day... in humanity, in Nature, in art and in food. In every kind of person and in every kind of story. We acknowledge the power of community and we root ourselves in deep values -- like love, and the inherent worth and dignity of every person -- but we stop well short of assuming that everyone should believe the same thing in order to be considered good or whole. In fact, we celebrate diversity... and we encourage curiosity and doubt as important tools for continued learning and spiritual growth. As the poet Rumi once wrote: "there are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
Curious to learn more? Good for you! So are we!
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What is a meetinghouse? Literally: a house where meeting happens. A space of connection, or reconnection... to people, to the Earth, to community, to a sense of the sacred.
When our congregation was formed -- over 200 years ago -- they called our gathering space a meetinghouse. Not a church, not a temple - a meetinghouse. Their language was intentional. The distinction is powerful.
Historically and today, we are people committed to the transformative potential of encounter, of meeting. This is how we grow, as individuals and as a community. We create space for authentic connection and spiritual deepening. We practice pluralism & dialog. We dig deep in Nature, in practices that reconnect, in sacred journeys old and new. We pay attention. We help one another, and anyone we can.
All of what we do as a community is rooted in connection & relationship... and relationship begins (and begins again) in meeting. In age of division and distraction, is there any practice more sacred, more needed? How many people today long for more loving & authentic connection... with self, with others, with an expansive sense of what is sacred?
A meetinghouse -- literally, a house of meeting -- is an old idea whose time has come again.
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