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More About UUs
Are you already a UU? www.beliefnet.com offers an interesting "Belief-O-Matic" quiz that can help define your preferred religious tradition.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
Sermons on the Web: http://www.allsoulschurch.org
UU Audio Sermons and More UU Sermons
Why do UUs celebrate Christmas?
Early Unitarians believed in the unity of God and rejected the trinity, while Universalists believed in universal salvation that did not require accepting Jesus as the only savior. Today’s Unitarian Universalists are invited to undertake a personal and shared search for truth and meaning wherever it might be found, including but not limited to Christianity.
While most Unitarian Universalists do not believe in the divinity, or at least the unique divinity, of Jesus as the Christ, he is still important to our faith tradition. We believe that he was a prophet, like Buddha, Mohammed and other great religious teachers. Muslims share that view of Jesus.
Unitarian Universalists like to claim that they practice the religion of Jesus rather than a religion about Jesus. We count Christianity as one source of our faith, along with Judaism and other world religions, earth-centered spirituality, the teachings of humanism, the words and deeds of prophetic women and men, and the direct experience of mystery and wonder. So we celebrate Jesus’ birthday, because he informs our faith understanding as a person who lived in the presence of the holy, who taught by word and example how to overcome oppression without violence, and who showed and taught how to build and sustain a beloved and inclusive community.
By Holley Ulbrich
We don't generally accept
Substitutionary Atonement
Hosea Ballou's Universalist Manifesto
Challenging the theology of redemptive suffering
Unity vs Trinity?
Unitarianism - scholarly
In Tension with Christianity?
Unitarianism - a definition
Unfinished with Christianity
“It has been the fault of all sects,” wrote the nineteenth-century Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing, “that they have been too anxious to define their religion. They have labored to circumscribe the infinite.”
A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity (pdf)- Theodore Parker's ground-breaking sermon (long)
Unitarian Christianity Revisited
We are a Welcoming Congregation and we are certified a Green Congregation
Where does the UUA stand on homosexuality? http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_uua.htm
For a list of all the UUA General Assembly Resolutions on human sexuality issues since 1963: http://www.uua.org/owl/uuares.html
Coming:
Abortion?
Bodily Resurrection?
Virgin Birth?
Lists and Web Sites
Discussions, specific committee work, lay leader questions, finances, music, children's RE, youth matters, other - to see what's available on the national+ level, double-click on www.uua.org/mailman/listinfo/
For local area UUCE listservs for discussion, announcements, or committees, look at the opportunities at www.uueugene.org/mailman/listinfo/
Or to get on a continental UUA list called, of all things, NEWCOMERS, click here and look for the world-wide UUA Newcomers List
To get ON or OFF any continental UUA email list, go to www.uua.org/mailman/listinfo/ - it will help you do it quickly and easily.
Pacific Northwest District (PNWD)
PNWD
CLF - Church of the Larger Fellowship
The Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) is a congregation of Unitarian Universalists found all over the world. The members may be isolated by chance or by choice, but through the CLF they maintain a spiritual connection to our religion for themselves and their children. Many members are active in local congregations as well as the CLF. The CLF also encourages the growth of small congregations and provides support for ministers and people of other faiths. Often affectionately-termed "Church in a Box".
Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)
UUA in Boston
The Gospel of Thomas (it's short, only 114 verses)
The Jefferson Bible: the Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson. Eighty-one sets of verses in four languages.
Oneness: Great Principles Shared by All Religions by Jeffrey Moses
http://www.christianburner.com/reality.html
Newcomers to the church might be interested in the 101 Questions about UUs, Famous UUs and UU biographies. Also
To view websites of other UU churches across the country, in Canada, and around the world: http://www.uua.org/CONG/index.html
Unitarian Universalist Church
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