First Parish Church in Beverly, Unitarian Universalist

We are a community of individuals and families of many sorts. We practice a faith without dogma or creed, for we believe that we need not think alike to love alike. We affirm the dignity and worth of all people and know that each of us has a piece of the truth. By coming together to learn from each other, we become wiser, and stronger.

Some of us are gay and some of us are straight. Some of us are old and some of us are young. Some of us are partnered and some of us are single. We are Humanists, Christians, Atheists, Agnostics, Pagans, Buddhists and Jews, among other things. As a congregation, we are dedicated to the proposition that beyond all our differences, and beneath all our diversity, there is a unity which makes us one. Bound together by that unity, our diversity enriches the life we share, and gives us strength for the work we have to do together.