If so what did you think of it? Thoughts about it online?

I'm more aligned with UU than I am with liberal Christianity, and I should probably be able to find my home there, but I just cannot with my local church. Maybe I'm stuck in the past - they had a great, challenging, interesting minister years ago (he retired). I attended yesterday, the current minister tends to "scold" the congregation for all the things they aren't doing well enough (having their own beliefs, not being covenental enough, not respecting "God language" and Christianity enough, posing the possible risk that we won't do what minister wants us to do next with sufficient seriousness and reverence ). I really don't need to spend my Sunday socially distanced, in a mask, scolded, and then hustled out (because no coffee hour and no socializing permitted at this time). I'm also now wondering if minister really does respect humanists and others who aren't of minister's particular "pro-God-talk" mindset. What will we be "corrected" for next?

I want UU to survive, I think that it offers something that we need and cannot usually get elsewhere, but sometimes I look at individual churches and wonder how that will be possible.

Hey UU Sub,

I think there is an answer out there but have not had to deal with this before. This is not a new issue for me but I continue, increasingly, to feel that I'm going to be moving on from my current UU church in the near future. It has never been a friendly place (even when we first attended 15+ years ago then then-minister used to talk about how ignoring "new" people at coffee hour - sometimes for years - was self-sabotaging for a congregation) and there is a more promising UU church in driving distance, and also a very liberal Episcopal church that I feel much more affinity with (though I'm not religious) - they actually DO things for others instead of arguing and talking about what they might do, later. Life is short, I'm moving on.

I cannot pledge much, every, but I do pledge and make my payments out of responsibility. What do we do when we move churches or denominations? I have never heard this addressed. I know that my present UU church is totally cash strapped (and was before the pandemic for systemic reasons) but if I make a formal change I'd like to support the new place.

Thanks!

I noticed a mention in the discussion of that UUnderstanding subreddit of some UUs who want to be one or the other. This is the larger and more mainstream sub so I'd like to ask - how common is this?

Asking because I've rejoined my local UU church after going either nowhere, or to an Episcopal Church (gorgeous music and language, good values, too bad they really expect you to believe things I don't believe), for a while. There is a lot that I like about our new minister but there are two things I'm wary about - 1) stridency (a "sit down and shut up, this is what we're doing" attitude maybe too often) and 2) repeated comments about how awful the Unitarians were because they were privileged and white and rational and not favoring emotional and "spiritual" services and...eh....I like a lot of the classical Unitarians. I really liked a past minister at that church who was very "Unitarian" (a brilliant thinker and speaker and not terribly emotional/squishy). Do I get off this train (or maybe they'll push me off later)?

I'm not sure how this church and new minster combo is going to fare long term (especially since the entrenched members all appear to be over 75 or 80...). Wondering if I have noticed an unusual thing or a currently common thing.