I am wondering as the Unitarian Society of Hartford Board chair of “Spiritual Life” what you consider spirituality. I know many people struggle with this word and for two primary quite different reasons. 1) Many were hurt during their upbringing by people using the word in more traditional religious. Those in this case HAD a definition for spirituality and it failed them. So they can’t seem to use the word in a new context like Unitarian Universalism. 2) Many others have no religious grounding and consider themselves scientific materialists for whom the realm of the non-observable or verifiable just doesn’t exist. For these people “spirituality” is a word signifying nothing.

What binds us together as Unitarian Universalists is a curiosity about a greater context for our lives and the universe itself. In that curiosity we expose ourselves anew and sometimes study that which has either hurt us or which we have not experienced but others have. There in that openness is where we explore “spirituality” at USH.
~Marye Gail Harrison, USH Spiritual Life Chair.