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We hope you will find among us an invitation: to celebrate life together in a caring community, to welcome children
in the communal experience, to honor the
diverse religious backgrounds of an interfaith constituency, to engage
in personal spiritual growth, to be present for others who also search,
to cooperate in supporting the community centered in worship, deepened
by educational and social opportunities, and to work together with others
for a just world. If the journey
begins with the first step, we hope it may be in our company.
We, the members of the Unitarian Universalist
Congregation in Andover (affectionately known as the UUCiA), join with
one another to create and sustain a caring community which:
» nurtures spiritual growth,
» shares our Unitarian Universalist
tradition,
» values and celebrates diversity, and
» is a liberal beacon, grounded in hope, for a just world.
Please read our Mission Statement and our Vision Themes & Provocative Propositions to find out more about what matters most to us.
Our congregation is free and self governing. In
North America, Unitarianism and Universalism arose as alternatives to Puritanism
in New England and the religious establishments in the middle and southern
colonies. It reflected the same impulse in religion that the American Revolution
did in political life. We are affiliated with the Unitarian
Universalist Association to support our wider work and outreach. Within
the UUA, we are a member of the Massachusetts
Bay District, a group of 57 congregations in north eastern Massachusetts.
Unitarian and Universalist traditions in the western branch of human culture
extend back to the time of Jesus (in practicing his Judaism, his theology
was unitarian). It continued in various forms (usually persecuted
as heresy by the majority faiths) until it emerged in such places as Transylvania
(with the tutelage of a Unitarian king), Poland, England, and the Netherlands.
Consistently we practiced freedom and tolerance, writing the first edict
of religious tolerance in Europe, always with an openness to new truth.
In time among us, there has emerged a truly global orientation to religious
practice, finding among the many branches of world religious tradition insights
into our shared humanity and guidance for the spiritual life.
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