* Many came for liberal religion, and came back because they were liberated by music, dance, poetry and art.  For individuals unable or unwilling to seek spiritual fulfillment in traditional doctrines, the arts and Birmingham Unitarian Church flourish as expression of shared, yet profoundly experiential spirituality.

* Doug is obviously well-read, current in world affairs and, in every sermon, delivers one or two points that I find myself weighing well into the next week.   Garry Gilbert

* Doug has moved BUC to a more spiritual focus as opposed to the intellectual.  He sems to have given permission for people to have a faith or a belief in a greater power.  His speaking about our Judeo Christian heritage has helped me connect with something greater than myself.  Allan Kurche

* In the church of my youth I learned the way religious liberals handle the question of the divinity of Jesus.  I was told that Jesus was the son of God in the same way that each of us is a child of God, that we have within us the potential to live good and noble lives, with the kind of values Jesus taught.  I still believe that.  While we are all flawed in ways large and small, we all recognize in people that kind of life, to whatever degree they are able to live it -- a life of generosity.   Dr. Douglas Gallager

Freedom has always been my personal center in life.  Unitarian Universalist UU allows me the religious freedom to focus my energies on the greater morality of mankind rather then be persecuted in the minutia of differing belief systems.  Matthew Chope 

* Indicates passage was selected from Birmingham Unitarian Church, The First 50 Years

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