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What We Believe

Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion born of the Jewish and Christian traditions.
We keep our minds open 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.
In the end religious authority lies not in a book, person, or institution, but in ourselves.
We put religious insights to the test of our hearts and minds.

We uphold the free search for truth. We will not be bound by a statement of belief.
We do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed. We say ours is a non-creedal religion. Ours is a free faith.

We believe that religious wisdom is ever changing. Human understanding of life and death, the world and its mysteries, is never final.
Revelation is continuous. We celebrate unfolding truths known to teachers, prophets, and sages throughout the ages.

We affirm the worth of all women and men. We believe people should be encouraged to think for themselves.
We know people differ in their opinions and lifestyles, and we believe these differences generally should be honored.

We seek to act as a moral force in the world, believing that ethical living is the supreme witness of religion.
The here and now and the effects our actions will have on future generations deeply concern us.
We know that our relationships with one another, with diverse peoples, races, and nations, should be
governed by justice, equity, and compassion.

Each Universalist Unitarian congregation is the fulfillment of a long heritage that goes back hundreds of years to courageous people who struggled for freedom in thought and faith. On this continent we go back to the Massachusetts settlers and the founders of the republic. Outstanding Universalists and Unitarians include John Adams, Clara Barton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Susan B. Anthony. More than one thousand congregations make up the Universalist Unitarian Association (UUA), which grew out of the consolidation in 1961 of two religious denominations: the Universalists, organized in 1793, and the Unitarians, organized in 1825.