What is Unitarian Universalism about?
Central to the Unitarian Universalist religion is respect for each person’s quest for truth, value and religious understanding. We hold our beliefs as individuals, coming together in communities of faith to learn, to celebrate, to work for justice, to comfort and be comforted, and to ensure the religious education of our children. We own no central dogma, doctrine or Scriptures, but rather, seek our truths with the help of many sources—Jewish and Christian traditions, other world religious traditions, the sciences, literature, humanist teachings, and the words and deeds of prophetic women and men of all eras. We do not promote a specific creed, rather, a set of principles for ethical living and an awareness of the world as an interdependent community. Our heritage comes from the liberal American Protestant tradition. The American Unitarian Association, which historically emphasized the unity of God and the goodness of human nature, and the Universalist Church of America, which emphasiz
