We are Unitarian Universalists. Sometimes we shorten that and say that we are Unitarians because both is a mouthful, or we consider ourselves more Unitarian than Universalist, or we carry some leftover baggage about the merger of the two traditions in 1961, however expeditious it might have been for the two to join in order that they both survive. Today I want to focus on the Universalist piece of who we are. Unitarianism arose from a move in the 16th century away from Trin

God. Faith. Sacred. Jesus. Church. Prayer. Grace. Sin. Holy. Salvation. Amen. Are you triggered yet? I could go on – probably take up my whole time with word upon word. The landscape of religious language is vast. I know the feeling. Not so much a particular word, but a concept that rubs against what I have come to understand and believe. Maybe there is a tightness or a twisting in the gut, perhaps a slow tuning out of what is being said as a protection mechan