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Seven Principles

Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote seven Principles, which we hold as strong values and moral guides.

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Braver/Wiser: A Weekly Message of Courage and Compassion

  • Building a Common Life
    By Elea Kemler
    I choose to believe in community. I choose to believe in the difficult, slow work of building a common life.

inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop

Skinner House Books

Tapestry of Faith: Curricula and Resources for Lifespan Faith Development

A Place of Wholeness

Amazing Grace

Building Bridges

  • Introduction
    We need not think alike to love alike. — Francis David May your life preach more loudly than your lips. — William Ellery Channing...

Love Surrounds Us

Riddle and Mystery

Wonderful Welcome

  • Making Promises, Making Covenants
    By Janeen K Grohsmeyer
    Do you remember your first day of school? I remember mine. Your parents and grandparents probably remember their first days, too. Probably...

Worship Lab: Posts on Crafting Worship

  • A Commitment to Multicultural Worship
    By Christian Schmidt, Kristin Grassel Schmidt
    In every worship service at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, you’ll hear diverse voices, sources, and viewpoints. The...

WorshipWeb: Searchable Worship Collection

  • Questioning our Assumptions
    By Matthew Johnson
    We’re the faith of reason and science and dignity. There's nothing wrong with that. It’s just that too many of us have been taught by...
  • Blessed Are We
    By Andrea Hawkins-Kamper
    Blessed are we who gather with open hearts, together, in this space, today. Blessed are we: the chalice-lighters of resistance, justice,...
  • Choose to Bless the World
    By Rebecca Parker
    Your gifts—whatever you discover them to be— can be used to bless or curse the world. The mind's power, the strength of the hands, the...
  • To Make Ready for the Coming Day
    By Bill Hamilton-Holway
    If I were to wish you peace, it would not be for long. It would be peace to rest, to reflect, to make ready for the coming day, that the...
  • We Answer the Call of Love
    By Julia Corbett-Hemeyer
    In the face of hate, We answer the call of love. In the face of exclusion, We answer the call of inclusion. In the face of homophobia, We...
  • Litany of Solidarity
    By Catie Scudera
    Please join me in a litany of solidarity. Many of us are afraid of the coming years, because we ourselves or loved ones face oppression...
  • Tapping Out of Fake Fights
    By Nancy McDonald Ladd
    This reading is an excerpt of the sermon delivered by Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd on Sunday morning at General Assembly 2016. For as long as...
  • Unitarian Universalist Doodle Logo in Color
    By Ellen Rockett, Jennie Freiberger
    These fun images of the Unitarian Universalist logo, rendered as a doodle in UUA colors, may be used on social media or in worship...
  • Silent About Things That Matter
    By Martin Luther King, Jr.
    "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." This quote, attributed to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., is...
  • To All Get Free Together
    By Chris Crass
    To become an anti-racist faith community, the key question for a white/white majority community is not “How do we get people of color to...
  • Things that matter
    "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." This quote has been widely attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • UU Coloring Page
    By Jennie Freiberger
  • Harvest Basket Chalice Coloring Page
    By Jennie Freiberger
  • The purpose of church...
    By Nancy Bowen
    "The purpose of the church is to heal the consequences of lovelessness and injustice in the hearts and souls of our members so they might...
  • The Seven Principles Wheel
    By Ian W. Riddell, Kimberley Debus
    One of the gifts of our Principles is their flexibility and malleability. Rev. Ian Riddell, struck by the fact that the list of our 7...
  • Chalice Sunburst
    By Cynthia Landrum
  • We Support You
    By Maryah Converse
  • UUA Doodle Logo
    By Jennie Freiberger
  • So That We Might, Together, Shine
    By Erik Walker Wikstrom
    When we light our chalice everyone focuses on the flame. Yet it is the paraffin of the candle, the cotton of the wick, the potassium...
  • Chalice Lighting for the Work of the Congregation
    By Erik Walker Wikstrom
    As we approach our agenda let us remember that we are doing the work of the congregation.* When we do the work of this congregation*, we...
  • Our children did not get their wounds alone
    By Yolo Akili
    "Our children did not get their wounds alone. They were created by the actions of our family, our communities and our world. They were...
  • The Hope of Seven Generations
    By Susan Werner
    "There is a hope that's been expressed in you: the hope of seven generations, maybe more. And this is the faith that they invest in you: It...
  • I Am the UUA
    By Christopher Sims
  • Fair vs. Equal (an all-ages activity/Time for All Ages)
    By Erika A. Hewitt
    What does “fair” mean? Is “fair” the same thing as “equal”? Which one is reflected in the concept of “justice”? Designed to be used as a...
  • There Is a Love
    By Elizabeth H. Norton, Rebecca Parker
    Sheet Music (PDF) for "There Is A Love." There is a love holding me / us. There is a love holding all that I / we love. There is a love...
  • It Becomes More
    By Amy Zucker Morgenstern
    When we take fire from our chalice, it does not become less. It becomes more. And so we extinguish our chalice, but we take its light and...
  • The First and the Last
    By Martha Dallas
    Who here knows from experience that life is not fair? [ Show of hands. ] We know this, don’t we? Life is just not fair. And I really don’t...
  • Love Will Guide Us Image
    By Ellen Rockett
    Text from "Love Will Guide Us," by Sally Rogers, #131, Singing the Living Tradition .
  • Experience Connection
    By Peter Morales
    What does deep spirituality feel like to you? Spirituality is impossible to define and difficult to describe. For me, it feels like...
  • The Seven Principles
    By Ellen Rockett
    This image was created by Ellen Rockett, a Unitarian Universalist (UU) young adult, to accompany the seven separate images/smartphone...
  • New Church Building Dedication
    By Karen Lewis Foley
    May we honor and hold gently our past. May we live fully our present. May we hope toward and build our future, Living our mission [insert...
  • Prepare Him Room
    By Robin Bartlett
    Reading From The Hebrew Bible (Isaiah 40:1-11) Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her...
  • On Being Asked to Change "Black Lives Matter" to "All Lives Matter"
    By Daniel S. Schatz
    As a Unitarian Universalist minister, it is sometimes my role to answer correspondence that comes to our congregation from members of the...

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