Work in teams to find the answers to these questions. You may consult any resources you can access in your congregation’s building.
Our congregation:
What is the official name of our congregation?
Who is the president/chairperson of the congregation?
When was our congregation founded?
In what year was our congregation’s building constructed?
Name a room in our building that is named for a famous Unitarian Universalist.
Who was our congregation’s first minister?
Find a quote from our congregation’s first minister.
Our movement:
What is the first Source of “the living tradition which we share,” as listed in the Principles and Purposes of the Unitarian Universalist Association?
What is at 24 Farnsworth Street in Boston?
What is the name for the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations’ system of governance, which offers a high degree of autonomy to each congregation?
What ritual do almost all of our congregations engage in toward the beginning of worship?
Early history:
What sixteenth-century European heretic, hero to many Unitarian Universalists, was burned at the stake for his beliefs?
Who defined Unitarianism in his 1819 sermon “Unitarian Christianity,” and is sometimes called “the father of American Unitarianism”?
In what city was the first Universalist church in America?
In what city was the first Unitarian church in America?
Who was the first woman minister in the United States to be ordained, achieve full ministerial standing, and be recognized by a religious denomination? Was she Unitarian or Universalist?
Who wrote A Treatise on Atonement in 1805? What was its main point?
More recent history:
When did the American Unitarian Association merge with the Universalist Church in America?
The 2004 court decision in the case Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. How many of the 14 plaintiffs in the case were Unitarian Universalists?
What is the name of the comprehensive sexuality education program published by the Unitarian Universalist Association and United Church of Christ? Is there a curriculum in this series for adults?
