What is the difference between Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist?
At All Souls we commonly refer to ourselves as “Unitarian.” We are a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association, but All Souls was founded in 1921 as a Unitarian church. In early American history the Unitarians and Universalists were two distinct faiths. The Unitarian name came from the fact that they were liberal Christians who believed in one indivisible God rather than in the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Universalists were Christians distinguished by their rejection of the notion of hell and thus they believed in “universal salvation.
