My husband and I met at a Unitarian church.  I was involved because,
after my divorce from a Catholic, I went to my the church my atheist
parents had joined while I was in college.  I had given up on my own
Christianity when the Catholic Church was so unhelpful during my first
marriage (I later found that almost all Protestant churches I attended
would be unhelpful, but that is another story completely).

My message to Denise is that Unitarianism is deceptive.  It will give
you a "feeling" of believing in a Higher Power.  It will give you a
warm fuzzy feeling of being in a group where people are kindly.  But
the Bible will definitely be denied as true, even if parts of it are
read in church services.  No real Bible study will occur.   And in
these times, the Unitarian Church is even more involved in New Age
mysticism than when I attended.  It will definitely fool you into
thinking you have God orientation if you come out of a Christian
background.  It will give you good "feelings".

I never left my God orientation, in spite of the Unitarian influence,
which I hope will also happen to Denise.  I always believed in God and
prayed to him in spite of the Unitarian presence in our lives.  And He
did bring me back out of it all, when I saw its bankruptcy.  And my
second husband, whom I'd met in the church, followed me back to Jesus.

When we (my second husband and I) decided we were once again Christian,
we told some Unitarians at our yearly summer camp meeting that we
believed Jesus was our Savior and Redeemer.  We were shunned and told
we should not have come to the camp.  We thus lost almost all of our
friends in one day.  We realized how determined the Unitarians are to
deny Jesus a role in our lives other than that tired old "good man" and
"wise philosopher" role which the Unitarians accept.  They literally
shunned us.  We did leave early.

We never made many friends again.  And our life has been lonely.  Could
this also happen to Daryl and Denise?  That is, if they have years to
become enmeshed in Unitarianism as their primary social circle and way
of life.

Praying for them to turn away from Unitarianism.  Not saying it's easy
to find another church.  But the Unitarian will definitely be a
deception.
 

Mariel