Southminster-steinhauer United Church

I Once Believed: Re-Framing a Traditional Christian Past Part 2 Many of us who, either long ago or more recently, have found our way to SSUC have come from very different spiritual experiences. Some have come from other traditions entirely, some from a more evangelical upbringing, many from what you might call a liberal Untied Church tradition or similar, and some weren’t raised in the Christian tradition, but have come with ideas and notions from pop culture of what the Christian church is. For some, this might be a positive memory and experience; For others, a more negative or traumatizing past. Either way, it’s important to always be evaluating what we learned early on, what we’ve unlearned, what we now understand in light of where we are now on our journey…regardless of where that is. For as much good as the writings of any text might inspire, promote social justice and positive change, dogmatic belief statements have more frequently been used or misused to exclude, to uphold evil, unjust, harmful and v