THE NICENE CREED

We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. 

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

UBC SEEKS TO FORM A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE INTO THE WAY OF CHRIST THAT EMBRACES BEAUTY AND LIVES LIFE TO THE FULLEST.

FORM:

At UBC, we seek to be a community formed in the way of Christ, becoming people who love God by loving our neighbors and embodying the care and attention of God in our ordinary lives. We recognize this formation to be a lifelong dynamic process that takes different shapes through out life. We believe this consistently involves an attentiveness to the intersection of our relationship to God, to our neighbor, and to ourselves. We find congregational community to offer an invitation to re-attune our attention to these relationships, whether through acts of liturgy, study, service, or social gathering.

EMBRACE BEAUTY:

Stories of creation and re-creation bookend the Bible and form the connective tissue between the stories it contains. Imaginative creative expression is the first act of both God and humanity in the Bible, is the genre of at least a third of the texts that comprise the Bible, and is the singular mode Jesus employs to speak of matters of God and the Kingdom. At Ubc, we seek to be a people who celebrate, create, and otherwise embrace Beauty as something truth bearing and integral to who God is and who we are created to be. Further, we do not put trust in categories of spiritual (sacred) or worldly (secular) to tell us where we should expect to find God or Truth or Beauty or Goodness, but instead believe that God is the ground of Beauty itself.

LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST

At Ubc, we believe that in the person of Jesus we find revealed to us what God would have us know about who God is and what God would have us know about who we are created to be. Alongside the latter, we find an invitation to imagine what it looks like to integrate the person of Jesus into our ordinary lives—to live and live well; to live life to the fullest. This takes the form of a reflection we undertake intentionally during Lent each year, but can take up whenever we want: when I look at my life and my interactions, what belongs and what doesn’t? Is the loving kindness of Christ present in my ordinary life?

BEING A UBCER

Authentic Self Expression Within a Loving Community

At UBC we encourage you to be yourself.  You will not be marginalized because of your past, your questions, your look, political/social/theological views.  We celebrate how God has uniquely crafted you through your journey.

Ubc unequivocally supports women in ministry. women can serve in all capacities here, including preaching, and any form of leadership.

Ubc unequivocally supports the queer community, completely affirming them in their identity and their calls to service & ministry. queer folks can serve in all capacities, engage in communion, and be married at Ubc.

Sacred/Secular

The division between what is sacred and what is secular is a false one.  We believe “all truth is God’s truth,” we can encounter God in creation, art, culture, and the ordinary/everyday.

Questions

We believe questions are an essential part of the faith journey, and we encourage those questions however they form.  Acknowledging that they may be difficult, and maybe left unanswered, there is grace and growth in the asking.