UU Principles and Purposes
Principles:
As Unitarian Universalists, we believe that:
- every person is important and valuable all people should be treated fairly.
- our churches are places where we should accept one another and learn together.
- each person should be free to search for what is true and right.
- all people have the right to speak out and vote on things that matter to them.
- we should help build a peaceful, fair, and free world.
- we need to take care of the earth, the home that we share with all living things.
These ideas come from many places:
- the sense of wonder that we all share,
- men and women of long ago and today whose lives remind us to be kind, fair, and understanding,
- ethical and spiritual wisdom of the world’s religions,
- Jewish and Christian teachings which tell us to love all others as we love ourselves,
- the use of reason and discoveries of science, and
- the harmony of nature and the sacred circle of life.
