Hello fellow redditors! First of all, I would like to apologize for the inevitable mistakes you'll find here and there through my post, as English is not my first language.

I've been in a spiritual crisis for the past fifteen years basically, but it has intensifies lately and I've been looking around for a direction to find a place and belief that might make me feel home. I was raised Catholic as it's the main religion in my country, but I've felt disconnected from it since I was11 or 12 I think. I have always been very attracted to pagan and pantheistic beliefs, but I cannot go past the absence of "structure" and guidance; in other words I feel lost without that sense of community and belonging that Churches can give, but I can't relate to the most mainstream Catholic and Christian teachings, way of behaving and seeing life. I've called myself agnostic for the longest time but I know it doesn't represent me.

I came across UU denomination and I really like the message and openness to others. I am living in the US at the moment and there's three UU congregations nearby that I would like to join sometime to have a "taste", although at the moment I work weekends and cannot attend the Sunday service. What's blocking me, apart from working Sundays, is that my husband and I plan to go back to my country in five years, and even though there's a lively UU community in Europe, there's nothing in my country. There's a Facebook group that only shares philosophical posts once in a while, a WordPress blog that's been inactive since 2017 and that's all. I am scared to get into it as I won't find any of the things I like about structured religion once we move back.

I a very sorry for the long post, but it's been bugging me for the longest time and I felt no one could have a better answer than people who are actually involved with it!

Thank you and have a wonderful Tuesday.

Just wondering what's left of Henry Ware's influence :)

I'm from the Caribbean, I've try to make contact with a local Unitarian universalist church I had called them but apparently they haven't been there for 5 years , I try to go to the church physically but it was close i even try to contact them in their Facebook and no one answer, I don't know what else to do.

Hi friends,

I recently realised I believe in and feel the presence of God, after being a staunch atheist for my whole life. I was raised atheist, I was that smug kid on the university campus reading Richard Dawkins with the cover held proudly out. So realising I feel faith for the first time ever has been an unbelievably destabilising event. I have a great support network but nobody close to me can really seem to understand how huge this is for me... That I'm having to rebuild my entire metaphysical worldview from the ground up.

Prayer has been helpful, and I've found UU sermons to be extremely meaningful to listen to. I'm confident that UU is a church I'd like to explore more, and I've emailed my local chapter, but UU doesn't have a huge presence here in Australia.

I guess I'm looking for advice, comfort and stories, especially from any siblings who have also found faith after atheism. I'm feeling very lonely as I go through this process of figuring out what I believe.

Thank you all, and blessings 💜

I'm interested in becoming a Unitarian Religious Educator but I can't seem to find anything online about what credentials I need. Does anyone have any resources or knowledge on the subject? Thanks!

I have just finished A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism. What are some other books you can recommend for learning about Unitarian Universalism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km9Rv_3bN5E

What do you think of this video? Examples of comments made on it are as follows:

@TwizzElishus

One can at least commend them for not falsely calling themselves Christians.

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@duaneadams5210

There is a Unitarian Universalist church near where I used to live. I never could understand what they stood for and never seemed to have a spiritual foundation that I could see. There was not any "glue" to hold them all together. I like your method of explaining things and find you easy to understand. Thank You for bringing insight to all of the different belief systems. I always look forward to your presentations.

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@a.violet5905

When coming out of my non-Christian beliefs, I went to a UU congregation. I still believed in God, but didn't know what that meant. Once I found that their roots were Christian, then it started me on my journey to Christ. I never became a member and then went to the UCC , then UCC in an ecumenical church with 4 denominations, the Episcopal Church. Now after years of study and looking, I became in Orthodox Christian. I'm done. No more needing to search. I'm home.

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@jamesreed5678

Interestingly, this pseudo-church denomination, UU, has held fairly steady in membership over the last few decades, while most other denominations are imploding. On the other hand, their membership is only about 150K.

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@user-jb5no1xw1p

If you don't support the idea that there is, ultimately, a right answer to spiritual questions, how can you say you're 'pro-reason?' I mean, even if you're a spiritualist like me and see the fullness of God as incomprehensible, to deny objective truth is to embrace absurdity and deny the existence of right and wrong...which can be discerned through reason. How can they make the world 'better' if they can't sort out good from evil objectively? What then would be the difference between meaningless change and progress?

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@russellt4474

They claim to believe in science, yet do not believe there is "one right answer". They don't believe in empirical truths, but in personal truths. As an actual Unitarian with an education and background in a field of science, I find this organization to be deeply alienating and offensive to my beliefs.

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@patrickmccarthy7877

What do you get when you mix a Unitarian and a Jehovah's Witness? Someone who rings doorbells but doesn't know why.

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@robertpease9834

If you don't believe in something, you will fall for anything. This doesn't sound like any sort of Church, just a place to gather and talk. I guess the sermons are just for entertainment and allowing people to feel good for the sake of feeling good. It sounds like the perfect attitude in today's society. Don't tell anyone they are doing wrong, it might hurt their feelings.

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@pastorart1974

I have visited several UU congregations and I was told you could believe anything except for Bible Based Evangelical Christianity.

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Finally, someone defends us with what we are really about!

@brentchaffin9603

The assumption that UU's "can be anything" is actually a common misconception. We actually have 7 core principles and an overarching covenent that must be adhered to. Anyone is welcome to attend UU services but membership in the church requires dedication to upholding these principles and this covenant.

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "I organized the first UU student group in my University’s history! We’re expecting a really big turnout :)" by u/comradetori
• "A serenity prayer of sorts (h/t UU Hysterical Society)" by u/doxymoronic
• "Redditor makes r/all post about OWL program" by u/kendie2
• "I think I'm going to join my local UU church" by u/JimmyEatWhirl
• "I don’t want to be a pillar of the community" by u/northernlaurie
• "I attended my first in person UU service today!" by u/randomUser042718
• "The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (UK and Ireland) held its General Assembly Meetings last week. I was pleased to be one of the new Ministers to sign the GA Roll!" by u/RobinHanford
• "Found this poster of Principle 7, but it bothers me that there's no space in "a part." Completely changes the meaning!" by u/Killer_Sloth
• "The minister on “This Fool” (Hulu) is UU!" by u/catlady047
• "UU Joke that came to me this morning" by u/vonhoother

Are there any Unitarian Universalist churches in Canada?

I grew up in a southern Baptist church and through out childhood was told to do as my mother told me even though I was being abused and bullied, told i suffered depression because my faith was not strong enough. As an adult i was and still am rejected because i am not acceptable to my family.

I am now 55 and my mother passed away 2 years ago and can't bother me anymore and break my no contact. I have PTSD, ADHD etc. Plus as a woman decided not to procreate. Never married, no friends or family. Will i be rejected?