“I say to my congregants, "If you believe in God, the best thing you can do for yourself is to suspend your belief for a while, because undoubtedly your God is too small and you must grow beyond that God.… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require this. Rather we are bound by the shared recognition that when one person suffers, all suffer; when we violate one life, all lives are violated; when we pollute the earth, all living things are stained;… — Forrest Church Copy Share
“Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
Death is not a curse to be outwitted no matter the cost. Death is the natural pivot on which life turns, without which life… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
“None of us is fully able to perceive the truth that shines through another person’s window, nor the falsehood that we may perceive as… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
“God language can tie people into knots, of course. In part, that is because ‘God’ is not God's name. Referring to the highest power… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
“Whenever we give our hearts in love, the burden of our vulnerability grows. We risk being rebuffed or embarrassed or inadequate. Beyond these things,… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also parallels the… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own. — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
