Our Beliefs

​In Unitarian Universalism, you can bring your whole self to our community: your full identity, your questioning mind, your expansive heart. Together, we create a force more powerful than one person or one belief system. As Unitarian Universalists, we do not have to check our personal background and beliefs at the door: we join together on a journey that honors everywhere we’ve been before.

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In Unitarian Universalism, you can bring your whole self: your full identity, your questioning mind, your expansive heart.

Together, we create a force more powerful than one person or one belief system. Unitarian Universalists do not have to let go of personal experiences, practices, or beliefs to be part of this community. We join together on a journey that honors all our individual backgrounds and experiences.

Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed. Our shared covenant is expressed through the inseparable and deeply interdependent shared values of interdependence, pluralism, justice, transformation, generosity, and equity – all centered around love. Although Unitarianism and Universalism both have origins as liberal Christian traditions, today we embrace diverse teachings from many different global religions and philosophies.

Unitarian Universalists believe more than one thing. We think for ourselves and reflect together about important topics like the following:

• The existence of a Higher Power
• Life and Death
• Sacred Texts
• Prayer and Spiritual Practices

​We are united in our broad and inclusive outlook, and in our shared values. We are united in shared experience: our open and stirring worship services, religious education and rites of passage; our work for justice; our commitment to center the experiences and needs of the marginalized and most vulnerable among us; our dedication to living in a way that always centers love.

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What is the nature of God?
What does it mean to be human and alive?
How is the Sacred present in each of us and in our lives?
What is the purpose of Beloved Community?
How do we live in the face of death and loss?

Unitarian Universalists reflect together about important questions. We come to very different conclusions about the answers to these questions, but are united in our broad and inclusive outlook, and in our shared experience of the holy in worship, religious education, rites of passage, our work for social justice, our quest to include the marginalized, and in our expressions of love. Learn more about Unitarian Universalists from a variety of beliefs and backgrounds from the Unitarian Universalist Association: Atheist/Agnostic, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Humanist, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, and more.