About Us

With open minds and caring hearts we freely gather together to support one another in the practice and promotion of liberal religion. We, the members of this liberal religious congregation, therefore commit ourselves to:

  • Provide a community of love and fellowship, to honor diversity, religious freedom and encourage personal and spiritual growth;
  • Build closer relationships of mutual trust, understanding, respect and support of different cultures, philosophies, and beliefs;
  • Inspire and assist the larger community toward greater compassion, justice, and beauty;
  • Participate in the Unitarian Universalist Association and support its vision of peace, social justice, environmental responsibility, and religious tolerance;
  • Contribute toward the goal of a global community, with respect for the interconnected web of all existence.

Love is the spirit of this fellowship
and service is our gift;
to dwell together in peace,
to seek the truth in love,
and to help one another:
This is our covenant.

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Our regularly featured speakers:
In addition to member-led services and guest speakers, our Sunday mornings regularly feature these four ministers, offering us a breadth of perspectives.

Rev. Brad Carrier — Brad has served the UUFGP since 1987, helping to revive it as a UU congregation (it had an earlier incarnation stemming from the 1950’s, which had disbanded).  He lives in Ashland and comes to lead services here monthly in addition to intermittent visits to other west coast congregations.  Brad has ministered to congregations in Ashland, Oregon, North Carolina, Illinois, Michigan.  He trained for the ministry at the Meadville/Lombard Seminary at the University of Chicago.  His main mentor was Dr. A. U. Vasavada, of Bombay , India , who studied with Carl Jung.  Brad has an ongoing interest in meditation and related topics.  He also strongly cares for “religion this side of God” or “life this side of death” and has established a religious perspective: God’s Goods, a humanistic, naturalistic, deistic religion you can read more about on his web site: earthlyreligion.org.

Rev. Fred & Rev. Margaret Keip — The Keips are members of our fellowship, having retired to Grants Pass after co-ministering with the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula in California for 25 years.  Fred grew up on a Wisconsin farm, served as a Marine in Korea during the war and taught theater and speech at the college and university level for 10 years, which led him to embrace a narrative theology, using life experience in story form to embed theology directly in everyday contemporary life.  Marge resonates with process theology, a 20th century philosophy in accord with contemporary science, viewing all existence as relational and always evolving.