How does the CUA differ from the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association)?
The Unitarian Universalist Association was formed in 1961 from a merger of the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association. The Universalist Church of America was organized in the eighteenth century as a Christian denomination and grew to several hundred thousand members in the nineteenth century, with a strong emphasis on proclaiming the teaching of universalism as the basis of the Gospel. A variety of dynamics contributed to its decline during the twentieth century, and since the merger with the Unitarians many of the churches no longer put an emphasis on universalism. Furthermore, many Unitarian Universalist churches today do not necessarily proclaim faith in God, Christ, life after death, and other spiritual beliefs as their core principles, because the UUA includes many secular humanists and considers itself a non-creedal religious organization. We in the CUA seek to resurrect the spirit and tradition of the earlier Universalist Church of America, and tak
