One of the greatest misnomers of modernity is the term “Protestant,” implying as it does that the many movements spawned by the Enlightenment opening of religious thought (including Unitarianism and Universalism) are all based on protesting something.
A better term would be “Proclaimers,” focusing on the radical way that these emergent spiritual traditions offered a new and different understanding of the meaning of gathered community. This defining characteristic, of the centrality of connection and community at the heart of what it means to be religious/spiritual in our tradition, is needed now more than ever.