In the Unitarian Universalist tradition love is a verb. With the study of science, it is an activity through which we gain knowledge of the radically relational and contingent nature of human development and of all that exists. This shared knowledge reveals the meaning—the transforming power—of loving. Hope in this power gives us courage—as persons and as communities—to embrace the consciousness we share with each other and with all that is, and to embrace our responsibility for the right of all embodied forms of that consciousness to live and flourish in freedom.
