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Hahaha. If you dig deeper you may find that not all Universalist Unitarian churches practice the same. Different congregations will come up with rituals and traditions that suit them and them alone. One old church in Chicago uses an anvil as symbology simply because the founding members were blacksmiths.
What little I know is that they all like to think for themselves and explore the possibilities.
@MyWoolyMastadon what's that quote about a "foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds"? I'm happy enough with any kind of individuality as long as they're not crazy.
But there sure is a surfeit of crazy available
@MyWoolyMastadon @bmacDonald94 @deepmud
Yes. UU is a very big tent, non-credal. With variation within a congregation, between congregations, and between regions.
Ranging from full Atheist to Christian just without dogmatic trinitarianchristology, with pockets of Eastern mysteries, neopagan/earthmother, neosynctretic, ... .
(A fun preacher here was her own neosyncrethesis: her uncle was an Ashram Guru, her mother a patron of Mother Theresa, and she a grad of Harvard Divinity as UU. )