Services

Our services are simple in form. They usually consist of hymns, prayers, meditations, readings, music and an address. We read from the Bible, that storehouse of spiritual experience and wisdom. We recognise that not everything in it is of equal value. It is a thoroughly human book. We reverence the wisdom it contains, but we do not look upon it as infallible.

We also read from many other writings, past and present, both Christian and non-Christian.

For Unitarians a church is a group of people who are all learners in the school of the spirit. We hope it is a fellowship where the barriers of ordinary life may be broken down.

It aims to be a community where people are accepted as themselves, with their weaknesses as well as their strengths, and yet challenged to turn themselves toward truth, and try to become more fully human.

Unitarian congregations are essentially democratic and self-governing groups.

Women have equal status with men.

The purpose of our churches is the worship of God, and the service of humanity.

A true church can never be merely inward-looking. It exists not for itself alone. It is the union of those who love, and for the help of those who suffer.

(adapted from the Cambridge Unitarian Church webpage)

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© Rev A Howe 2007