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This video is from 2016, so cannot reflect the evolution of the 7 principles since that year. However, it still provides a useful overview of essential UU values. Read below to learn how we're reimagining our list of principles in 2024.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Unitarian Universalism invites you to bring your whole self: your full identity, your questioning mind, your expansive heart.
Together, we create a force more powerful than one person or one belief system. As Unitarian Universalists, we do not have to check our personal background and beliefs at the door: we join together on a journey that honors everywhere we’ve been before.
Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed; instead, our covenant unites us behind values such as social justice, environmentalism, and the democratic process. In June 2024, UUs across the country voted to restructure our eight principles, representing our beliefs as a flower with love at the center. For more information about these revisions (ie Article II), click here.
Though Unitarianism and Universalism roots draw from liberal Christian traditions, we continuously learn from diverse, multi-cultural, spiritual, ethical and moral traditions and philosophies. We welcome community members of all genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
LOVE IS AT THE CENTER
Article II reimagines our principles by placing love at the center of a flower. Our core values are the petals, each important and each tying back to love: interdependence, equity, transformation, pluralism, generosity, and justice. To read more text of Article II, click below.
OUR LIVING TRADITION DRAWS FROM MANY SOURCES:
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Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;
Words and deeds of prophetic people which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love;
Wisdom from the world’s religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;
Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God’s love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit;
Spiritual teachings of Earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.
