For a long time, Unitarians and Universalists stuck with Christianity, trying to improve its bad theology by reforming it from within. Then many of them just gave up the effort and stopped calling themselves Christians. Now here we are in 2025, having voted last year to put “Love at the Center” of our UU self-understanding. To some, that sounds a lot like the central message preached and lived by Jesus. Meanwhile many progressive Christians are moving in the same direction. Have we come full circle? Where is it all going?

Before retiring, Jay was a UU minister for 32 years, most recently in Studio City (12 years) and Davis (13), also serving as adjunct faculty of our UU seminaries in Chicago (Meadville Lombard) and Berkeley (Starr King). Earlier, he did research in nuclear physics for 11 years. Currently, he is a Research Scholar at Starr King with a focus on UU history.

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