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  • The freedom to seek, discover, and accept others’ truths is a sweet path to follow.
    Reflection | By Clint Nicely | September 17, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Arts & Music, Beauty, Creativity, Discernment, Freedom, Individualism, Personal Stories, Worship
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  • An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny
    Hardcover | By Adam Chandler | May 27, 2025 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Economic Justice, History, History, Individualism, Work
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  • A 2019 Stonewall Book Award winnerIn an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and ready to dazzle the world
    Hardcover | By Jessica Love | May 27, 2025 | For Children | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Children, Individualism, Love
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  • In inspiring, fresh essays, 20 Unitarian Universalist leaders issue a clarion call for change in the denomination. They show a way forward from an isolated, individualistic “iChurch” to an inclusive, multicultural Beloved Community.
    Paperback | By Fredric Muir | May 27, 2025 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Change, Community, Faith, Growth, Identity, Individualism, Leadership, Unitarian Universalism, Vision
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  • This year, we are celebrating that milestone bicentennial birthday - the 200th anniversary of the founding of the American Unitarian Association.
    Press Release | May 19, 2025 | From In Good Faith
    Tagged as: Individualism, Unitarian Universalism, UU History
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  • As chaplains, we create spaces that provide ceremony, connection, and sanctuary.
    Reflection | By James Clarke | April 23, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Arts & Music, Caring, Direct Experience, Identity, Inclusion, Individualism, Searching, Worship
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  • “I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” This quotation is often attributed to Edward Everett Hale, but WorshipWeb could find no evidence for this.
    Quote | November 18, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Accountability, Activism, Commitment, Individualism, Integrity, Responsibility, Worship
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  • All of us are active participants in co-creating congregational and community life.
    Reflection | September 18, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Accountability, Addiction/Recovery, Hospitality, Inclusion, Individualism, Responsibility, Worship
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  • We gather this morning as one community
    Chalice Lighting | By Adam Slate | March 9, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Connections, Individualism, Unity, Worship
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  • an original retelling Daedalus was a brilliant inventor, and he had made a career, even a legend of himself for being able to create the seemingly impossible. So when he decided to escape from his tower prison by flying over the ocean like a bird, his son, Icarus, had no doubt he would do it. It...
    Story | By Erica Shadowsong | March 4, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Children, Conscience, Courage, Creativity, Freedom, Humility, Individualism, Parents, Searching
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  • It’s time we reclaim the snowflake story in all its intertwined ramifications.
    By Robin Colgrove | November 1, 2019 | From Ideas
    Tagged as: Dignity, Individualism, Science
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  • In her 1975 theological treatise Suffering, German liberation theologian Dorothee Söelle* examines the ways that suffering can knit humans beings closer together, and can draw us more fully into the process of loving. She uses the term apatheia, “the inability to suffer,” to describe the...
    Reading | By Erika Hewitt | September 9, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Brokenness, Community, Connections, Individualism, Politics, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Relationships, Self-Care, Self-Respect
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  • Mission and covenant are an antidote to individualism. They remind us of the responsibilities that come with an affirmation of interdependence.
    By Susan Frederick-Gray | March 1, 2019 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Community, Despair, Forgiveness, Individualism, Pain, Solidarity, UU Beliefs, UU Theology
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  • It's an impulse of the human self to be known fully, and that’s almost never possible unless we risk the conversations that help us see past our initial impressions.
    Reflection | By Amanda Poppei | September 5, 2018 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Anti-Oppression, Connections, Direct Experience, Empathy, Family, Humanism, Humility, Identity, Individualism, Listening, Playfulness, Secular
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  • He wanted nothing to do with the Unitarian church that baptized him, but today’s Unitarian Universalism has embraced his revolutionary ecological, conscientious, and spiritually open approach.
    Feature | By Richard Higgins | May 15, 2017 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Individualism, Integrity, Nature, UU History
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  • What's my favorite weather? When the wind whips your face, you're alive, and you can think what you will.
    Reflection | By Jake Morrill | April 26, 2017 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Diversity, Humanism, Individualism, Integrity, Purpose, Searching, Secular, Work
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  • Kids, I want you to do something special: I want you to put on your backpacks, if you brought them, leaving the back pocket open just enough for us to drop in a small gift...and I want you to stand up on your pews....
    Blessing | By Jen Crow | August 2, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Backpack Blessing, Caring, Character, Children, Courage, Family, Growth, Individualism, Integrity, Journey, Parents
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  • Creator of Life, Source of All Being It was from the particles of the Universe that you formed me... Iron and carbon and phosphorous Mixed with energy, passion and dreams. I was made in your image, says ancient Scripture. Made from the colors of the rainbow, Shaped with bones straight and curved,...
    Meditation | By Cynthia Frado | December 8, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Atheism, Coming of Age, Connections, Direct Experience, Diversity, God, Homecoming / Ingathering, Identity, Inclusion, Individualism, Integrity, National Coming Out Day, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Reverence, Secular, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Unitarian Universalism, United Nations Day
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  • “It’s hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and...
    Meditation | By Richard S. Gilbert | June 4, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, Balance, Guilt, Individualism, Joy, Justice, Salvation, Service, Suffering, Wholeness
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  • Nell Krahnke grew up Unitarian Universalist (UU) and when she arrived at the Nell found the help she needed in the form of a staff person from the local church and other enthusiastic students who were raised UU. They didn’t know it, but together they started a blogpost about how covenants aren’t...
    By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | May 29, 2015 | From Future of Faith
    Tagged as: Creating a Home, Diversity, Emerging Ministries, Growth, Individualism, Unitarian Universalism, UU Identity, Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)
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