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.
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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.
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