Paul Wilczynski's Observations

UUA: Time to review the Principles

The Unitarian Universalist Association thinks it's Time to review the Principles.

Whether you find deep meaning in them or consider them unnecessarily bland, an opportunity is coming to consider changes in the Principles and Sources of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.

Article II of the UUA bylaws contains the covenant of the congregations that make up the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. It includes the seven Principles and the six Sources, as well as the Purposes that set forth the Association’s mission. Article XV mandates that Article II be reviewed not less than every 15 years.

The Principles and Sources may seem immutable, but they have been changed twice since the original UUA Principles were created in 1960 during the consolidation of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America. The original language—six Principles, with no Sources cited—was overhauled as the result of a review in the early 1980s, and the seventh Principle (affirming the interdependent web of all existence) and five Sources were added at that time. The sixth Source (earth-centered traditions) was added in 1995. ...

posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 7:38 AM