In 1982, while Rev. Ed Harris was our minister, our church was often referred to as The Green Street Church, possibly to distinguish it from the Channing-Murray chapel at Oregon and Mathews. 

The Orders of Service in those days sometimes included a statement about the church. Here is the one from the November 21, 1982 Thanksgiving service.

THE GREEN STREET CHURCH:

Our aim is to make a free and fearless church; seeking truth wherever it may be found; anxious for an interpretation of religion that shall be in harmony with modern knowledge, and which shall satisfy the spiritual cravings of people without doing injustice to their intellectual common sense.

We hold that religion is one of the native instincts of the human mind, and that a good definition of religion is inspiration and service.

We hold that the best unifying force in church life is common service instead of common belief; that people may not believe alike, but can love alike; that a church is not merely a place to get something for self, but a place to do something for others; that a practical religion is not creed, but deed.

We believe in positive religious convictions, but insist that no church or person has the right or ability to frame a statement of belief fitted to different minds; that the custom of making a creed the gateway to fellowship is an injustice to thinking minds and at variance with intellectual freedom.

We hold that everything has its religious and ethical side; that the distinction between sacred and secular is misleading and untrue. We affirm the indestructibility of moral and spiritual forces, hoping for the ultimate triumph of good over evil, and are working towards the evolution of a world order that may truly be a commonwealth.