There are few outside of Unitarian Universalism— the denomination I’ve belonged to my entire life— to whom Coming of Age would seem like much of a religious maturation. Coming of Age is the product of a church where the average member isn’t quite settled on what they believe, but they’re definitely certain they don’t want to seem too narrow-minded about it. The capstone of the program was not giving an affirmation of a creed, but rather to determine our own personal spiritual beliefs, drafting a credo which would then be read to the congregation. …show more content…
For fourteen years, apart from brief moments of interest, I had been successful in dodging serious consideration of affairs divine or metaphysical. Agnosticism functioned as a perfect avoidance strategy, and I saw no reason to trouble myself about greater powers. I began giving actual thought to these matters not because I suddenly regretted my apathy, or was struck by a realization of how spiritually desolate my life had been until then, but because when we read our credos in front of the congregation I didn’t want to embarrass