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GliderGuider

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11. UU fellowships have different levels of "spiritual" content.
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 05:29 PM
Feb 2012

It can depend a lot on the minister's orientation and the cultural background of the membership. The fellowship I'm most familiar with was utterly secular, with no spiritual content at all, from its founding in 1952 until the mid 1980s. The members were almost all university faculty and students, with a high representation from the hard sciences.

In the 1980s the fellowship became better known, and bean drawing more members from the general community. They also had three ministers in a row who had a more overt spiritual orientation. That combination caused the shift in the tone of the fellowship, to the extent that some of the original founding members left.

The spirituality of UUs tends to be more of the "wonders of the universe" and the "inherent unity of mankind" variety than anything particularly supernatural. Instead they worship coffeepots and panel discussion moderators.

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