At Fellowship we have a wide diversity of beliefs about God, about religion and about Jesus. We come from all kinds of religious backgrounds – Catholics, Baptists, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Methodists, Quakers, Unitarians, “None-of-the-Aboves,” professional agnostics and active atheists.  

No matter the road we took to get here, we're all seeking an inclusive faith that takes the Christian tradition seriously without needing it to be superior to something else.  We’d rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.  We don't think that we have to believe exactly alike in order to be together.

We belong to the United Church of Christ (UCC), which has no relationship to the Church of Christ, and was forged in 1957 as the union of several different Christian traditions.  From the beginning of our denominational history, we have affirmed that Christians did not always have to completely agree to live together in community. Our motto —“that they may all be one”— is Jesus’s prayer for the unity of the church. For a statement of broadly held United Church of Christ beliefs, see the national UCC website.

The UCC is a church of firsts: the first to ordain a woman, Rev. Antoinette Brown in 1853, and the first Christian denomination to ordain an openly gay man, Rev. Bill Johnson, in 1972. We were active in the abolition movement and the civil rights movement. We promoted equality in marriage over 10 years ago and recently took a stand by moving towards divesting ourselves of financial investment in the fossil fuel industry. 

The UCC is a non-creedal church.  We don’t speak the traditional creeds of the church in worship because we don’t insist that everyone believe the exact same things to belong. We are a non-hierarchical church: each congregation is financially self-sustaining, hires its own ministers, and follows its own conscience in matters of moral, cultural, and political importance. We are supportive of other religious traditions, understanding that there are many paths to the light, and we are deeply invested in the idea of the common good.