Real community with deep listening and belonging – now more than ever. We also need fun, spiritual grounding, and purpose! At UUCB, we’re grateful to offer numerous opportunities to connect, grow and make new friends in different ways and around different interests.
The real, enduring substance of this congregation is the network of relationships and mutuality between all of us. We live our commitment to the congregation when we connect in authentic relationship with one another. Those real relationships are people’s scarcest resources and deepest hunger.
Literature professor Alan Jacobs observes:
“You know what it’s like to be around people who share your core convictions… and yet you can’t stand to be around them. In one sense, they’re your “in” group, in another sense, it’s like, “When can I leave this party?” It can be stultifying. And it closes you off to spend all your time around people who may be like-minded, but whose spirit is unhealthy. They’re just not fun people to be around.
“When I was deciding who do I want to be talking with on social media, I realized it wasn’t necessarily the people who agreed with me about all of my religious beliefs or political beliefs. What I wanted was people who were generous. And kind. And caring. And thoughtful. So that when I said something, they would think about it, rather than just simply react.”
This is the life we’re working to live here and the community we’re working to create. We disagree about all sorts of things large and small – from spirituality and politics to whether the Nuggets or the Buffaloes are more fun to watch play basketball. But we’re not trying to be like-minded, we’re trying to be like-hearted.
