Our service will feature a message from our minister titled “The Humanist Manifesto: An Invitation to Reverence” – we hope you will join us!
“When the Humanist Manifesto declared that we are part of nature and we have emerged as the result of a continuous process, it…also gave us a language of reverence because it provides a story rooted not in the history of a single tribe or a particular people, but a history rooted in the sum of our knowledge of the universe itself. It gave us a doctrine of incarnation which suggests not that the holy became human in one place at one time to convey a special message to a single chosen people, but that the universe itself is continually incarnating itself in microbes and maples, in humming birds and human beings, constantly inviting us to tease out the revelation contained in stars and atoms and every living thing. A language of reverence for Humanists begins with our understanding of this story as a religious story - a vision of reality that contains within it the sources of a moral, ethical, transcendent self-understanding.”
~ David E. Bumbaugh
“When the Humanist Manifesto declared that we are part of nature and we have emerged as the result of a continuous process, it…also gave us a language of reverence because it provides a story rooted not in the history of a single tribe or a particular people, but a history rooted in the sum of our knowledge of the universe itself. It gave us a doctrine of incarnation which suggests not that the holy became human in one place at one time to convey a special message to a single chosen people, but that the universe itself is continually incarnating itself in microbes and maples, in humming birds and human beings, constantly inviting us to tease out the revelation contained in stars and atoms and every living thing. A language of reverence for Humanists begins with our understanding of this story as a religious story - a vision of reality that contains within it the sources of a moral, ethical, transcendent self-understanding.”
~ David E. Bumbaugh
