Opening Words
Three notable Unitarian-Universalist virtues are open-mindedness, intellectual
courage, and a willingness to
change with the times. Those are virtues we will need today, as we
try to envision the future of religion in
America. There is a fourth virtue which UUs are not famous for, but
which we can invoke if we really have
to, and that is humility. That will also be important today, because
ultimately the future is unknowable. We
can imagine, we can deduce, we can speculate, but we cannot know. So
let us begin this service by
summoning up our open-mindedness, our courage, our willingness to change,
and even our humility.
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