Radical Doubt and Existential Faith

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Sunday Circle 9:00 am
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It’s the Sunday after Easter, when traditional Christians often preach about Doubting Thomas. It’s also the Sunday before Earth Day, April 22. Former UUA President John Buehrens will explore belief and unbelief, doubt and faith. Doubting a good many good intentions – by corporations, governments, and even ourselves – while also maintaining an existential faith that survival (in the face of climate change) is still possible for our species on this fragile planet. 

Rev John Buehrens

John Buehrens served as UUA President from 1993 to 2001. He is the author of a number of books on liberal religion including Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice (Beacon, 2020) and most recently A Religious Center with a Civic Circumference: Unitarians in San Francisco Since 1850, published in January. The retired Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco, he is now serving as Consulting Minister to the Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Gwen, a retired priest in the Episcopal Church.