I didn’t really grow up in a church, but we did attend a Unitarian Universalist Church for a while.
This news story about the 50th anniversary of the UUA was like a trip back to my childhood. The story opened like this:
A recent Sunday service at the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore ended with an apology.
Laurel Mendes explained that religious doctrine had been duly scrubbed from the hymns in the congregation’s Sunday program.
But Mendes, a neo-pagan lay member who led the service, feared that a reference to God in “Once to Every Soul and Nation” might still upset the humanists in the pews.
“I didn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable by reciting something that might be considered a profession of faith,” said Mendes, 52, after the service. “We did say `God,’ which you don’t often hear in our most politically correct hymns.”
Welcome to a typical Sunday in the anything-but-typical Unitarian Universalist Association, a liberal religious movement with a proud history of welcoming all seekers of truth—as long as it’s spelled with a lowercase “t.”
Ah, yes. Good memories. This is why I find folks likes Marcus Borg so troubling. I’ve already been to the end of the road he’s walking down.
Another great summary of UU belief is in this video:
I am a part-time local pastor serving 
The doctrine of original sin is surely more humbling to man than the opposite: And I know not what honour we can pay to God, if we think man came out of His hands in the condition wherein he is now.
Q: What do you get when you cross a Jehovah’s Witness with a Unitarian Universalist?
A: Somebody who knocks on your door but doesn’t know why.
An interesting question from the video: “If you all have different beliefs, what makes you one religion?” I’ve been wondering the same thing about my own Church lately.