When we worship, we gather with others before God. We hear the Good News of Jesus Christ, give thanks, confess, and offer the brokenness of the world to God. As we break bread, our eyes are opened to the presence of Christ. By the power of the Holy Spirit, we are made one body, the body of Christ sent forth to live the Way of Love.
Reason is one of the three sources of authority in our theology, along with scripture and tradition. God gives us reason to help interpret scripture and tradition, and reason is in turn corrected and enlarged by them. Reason is considered to be more than calculation and logic, and it draws upon the entirety of human understanding and experience.
The value of the human body is stressed, not denied, in our theology. The incarnation of Jesus--the belief God became human, experiencing and sanctifying human life--means that human embodiment in this world is important. We are to care for our bodies and for each other as living temples of God.
As disciples of Jesus, we believe we must care for all aspects of what it means to be a person: intellectual, physical, and spiritual. We feed souls and minds through our worship, our music, our arts, our education, and our meditation and prayer gardens. We feed bodies through our pantry, our community garden, and our outreach ministries.
