delivered by Eileen Maurer, lay leader at Palomar UU Fellowship, on 2 March, 2008

Our culture is so fundamentally based in individualism that we’re often blind to shared experience. We automatically approach every event in our lives in a competitive mode, causing us to overlook the benefits of collective wisdom and the advantages of cooperation over competition. As a result, we miss a lot of opportunities to experience a real sense of belonging. The structure of our religion is precisely the reason that we need to recognize how important it is for Unitarian Universalists to worship together.