Belief — The Sunday Assembly

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 1 →

T Two comedians in a car. They worked it out on the way to a gig: something like church, without God. Neither has ever claimed to be anything more than the person who booked the room. Domain The running orderStanding Founders, and explicitly not authorities — the charter gives them no doctrinal power Meet them — context →

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 2 →

The shared center — held across the tradition

One life, and this is it. The Assembly describes itself as a network of secular communities gathered to celebrate the one life we know we have. That is the closest thing it has to a doctrinal statement and it is doing a lot of work. Go deeper — context & 1 source →

Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others

Whether a congregation with no doctrine can hold together. Part of the New York branch split off wanting a harder atheist line, and the movement has lost roughly half its chapters since its peak. This is the open question and the Assembly is the experiment. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death

The nature of reality

Naturalistic by default, and deliberately unlegislated

After death

None asserted. The stated frame is that this is the one life we know we have.