OUR SOURCES
The living tradition which we share
draws from many sources:
- Direct experience of that transcending
mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal
of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;
- Words and deeds of prophetic women and
men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with
justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love;
- Wisdom from the world's religions which
inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;
- Jewish and Christian teachings which
call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
- Humanist teachings which counsel us to
heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us
against idolatries of the mind and spirit;
- Spiritual teachings of earth-centered
traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to
live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.
