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Ours is a liberal religion that accepts people of many faiths.
Rather than try to enforce conformity of beliefs, we pledge to create caring communities that give people the freedom to search for spiritual truth in their own way. Unitarian Universalism (UUism) is a worldwide religious movement dating back more than 400 years to independent thinkers in Eastern Europe. While based in Judeo-Christian tradition, it has evolved in recent years to include other influences such as humanism, Buddhism, and Earth-centered spirituality. Today, the hallmark of UU congregations is the mutual agreement among members to conduct their lives by certain principles that transcend all creeds. We call these the Seven Faith Principles.
With its historical roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions, Unitarian Universalism (UU or UUism) is a liberal religion -- that is, a religion that keeps an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with in all times and places. We believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves. We are a "non-creedal" religion: we do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed.
(Excerpts from "We Are Unitarian Universalists", pamphlet #3047)
© Unitarian Universalist Association, 1995
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