The Fifth UU Principle: From Nicaea to the UUA General Assemblies
Though thousands of years and thousands of miles away, the early church councils were not as different from our own as we might assume. Daniel Mark Welch will discuss the 5th Principle: “The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large,” and how the age-old […]
Examining Our Roots
One of the six sources of Unitarian Universalism is “Jewish and Christian teachings that call us to respond to God’s love by loving our neighbors as ourselves.” Is this truly an accurate representation of our relationship with Christianity? We will explore this question in relation to both our individual congregation and our faith at large.
The ‘Origen’ of Unitarian Universalism
UUism as we know it was formed by a merging in 1961, but “Unitarianism” and “Universalism” are far older concepts. Fresh off his bachelor’s degree in the history of Christianity, Daniel Mark Welch will talk about how early Christian thinkers such as Origen, Augustine, and Arius influenced our modern tradition. Share the Plate on July […]
