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What is evil?
A view of human nature grounded in human possibility rather than pathology.
America's original battle over church and state
Competing visions of divine order and sacred liberty.
Quillen Shinn, Universalist circuit rider
Our Universalist forebears ranged far and wide.
Pete Stark's untroubled humanism
A Unitarian Congressman can't fathom why his nontheism is causing such a fuss.
Liberal theology, vibrant but hidden
Unitarian Universalism was liberal theology's first home, but we have neglected it lately.
Liberal religion and the working class
Unitarian Universalism has a class problem.
Independent magazines take a hit
New postal rules treat small periodicals unfairly.
Jesus for UU children
New book offers a Unitarian Universalist view.
Drops of water turn a mill
Does the Internet Age augur a revival of liberal religion?
Louisa May Alcott's Unitarian legacy
Did 'Little Women' plant the seeds of my own Unitarian Universalism?
Love the contradictions
The world needs people who can love it in its contradiction and complexity.
Stem cell research offers hope
But politics is interfering with medical research.
Thirty years of feminist transformation
The 1977 Women and Religion resolution transformed the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Does humanism need to be new?
A Harvard conference offers a ‘new humanism,’ but how does it differ from the old?
America's first cemetery, Unitarian-style
Boston's 175-year-old Mount Auburn Cemetery reflects Unitarian views of death.
What is Unitarian Universalist Buddhism?
The history of UU engagement with Buddhism and its growing significance.
Did James Luther Adams really predict 'Christian fascists'?
Chris Hedges invokes UU theologian James Luther Adams in his new book, 'American Fascists,' but gets Adams only half-right.
What membership means
Our covenant is open to all who will enter it with us.
Our interdependent weather forecast
Weather is the great equalizer, reminding us that we share one world.
Eating ethically
Can you clean your plate with a clean
conscience?
A theology of gratitude
Gratitude should be the center of Unitarian Universalist theology.
The emerging religious humanism
What is humanistic religious naturalism?
Golden age of Unitarian growth
One person inspired eight new churches in a dozen years.
What demythologizers tell their children
Stories are for everyone.
Straight to Jesus
Inside the Evangelical gay-conversion movement.
Pilgrims' 400-year legacy
Unitarian Universalists celebrate the Pilgrims' historic covenant.
What torture has taught me
My twelve years at the helm of Amnesty International.
Lewis Latimer, African American inventor and Unitarian
Son of slaves invented key elements of lightbulb.
Hungry for democracy
A new vision of democracy is emerging.
Five years of 9-11 articles
Selections from UU World's archives, 2001-2006.
American myths reconsidered
Five years after 9/11.
Secularism and tolerance after 9-11
Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Reza Aslan.
Sam Harris challenges liberal religious tolerance
Sam Harris has good news and bad news for Unitarian Universalists.
Why Unitarian Universalists need a language of reverence
The language of reverence is the language of humanity.
Love as a way of life
Love your neighbor, even before disaster strikes.
What would Jefferson and Adams do?
What two Unitarian U.S. presidents would think of contemporary religious politics.
St. Louis, first Unitarian outpost in the West
First Unitarian church west of the Mississippi River formed in 1835.
Newbery winner reflects author's liberal faith
Thoughtful teen novel weaves in themes from various world religions.
Heroes' dilemma: How much would you sacrifice?
The complex moral legacy of Martha and Waitstill Sharp.
The quest for the historical Mary Magdalene
The church fathers and 'The Da Vinci Code' both get Mary Magdalene wrong.
Marriage in the nineteenth century
The complexities of women's lives in Unitarian Boston.
How the UU Principles and Purposes were adopted
A history of Unitarian Universalism's Principles.
Unlikely partners saved a threatened species
Landowners, environmentalists, and policymakers worked together.
Counterculture and liberal religion
20th-century transformations of liberal religion.
UU Service Committee led on Central American human rights
Fifteen years of advocacy in El Salvador.
The difference between peaceful and violent religions
What does it mean to talk about 'peaceful' or 'violent' religions?
Myths of terror in this year's Oscar nominees
In this year's best picture nominees.
Free speech doesn't justify incendiary speech
When religion is involved, hate speech kills.
The wonder of evolution
Science and religion stand together.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s demanding God
King's God breaks down our divisions.
Ebenezer Scrooge's conversion
Charles Dickens's Unitarian 'Christmas Carol.'
Do UUs have theological common ground?
Two books look for liberal religion's theological foundations.
Two books see fascism in America
Davidson Loehr and Charles Derber see fascism in contemporary American politics.
Has fascism come to America?
The Rev. Dr. Davidson Loehr says fascism has come to America.
Why liberal religion offers a better way
Liberal religious people need to reclaim the moral agenda.
Recently received books by UU authors, September 2005
List of books by Unitarian Universalist authors received by UU World
Competing worldviews of fundamentalists and religious liberals
Why fundamentalists fear liberal family values.
Two new books about the urge to mend
What can we do to help?
New songbook explores new music styles
A review of Singing the Journey.
Reforming a criminal justice system in crisis
The General Assembly considers a new Statement of Conscience.
Making sense of the conservative worldview
Two recent books can help liberals understand the Christian right.
The spiritual in science fiction
A Unitarian Universalist take on science fiction and fantasy.
Hosea Ballou's Universalist manifesto
The pioneering theologian Hosea Ballou challenged the doctrine of damnation.
Global warming as a moral issue
Our use of energy makes global warming a moral issue.
The microcredit revolution
How small loans to people in poverty are empowering women and transforming local economies around the world.
The ceremony of innocence
A ceremony of innocence is a statement of faith and an act of hope.
James Luther Adams's examined faith
Faith is not fundamentally about one's beliefs but about one's commitments.
Preventing nuclear terrorism
The urgent need to secure weapons-grade nuclear material.
Was Thomas Jefferson really a Unitarian?
What makes someone 'one of us'?
The fear patrol
Unitarian Universalists offer insights into the cultural and personal sources of fear
The pages of sin
Greed, envy, gluttony, and lust reconsidered.
Orthodox Jewish wisdom for religious liberals
Engaging my ancestral Judaism enriches my Unitarian Universalism.
Gay rights timeline
Major social, political, and religious milestones on the road to equality.
Human origins and human futures
Looking back at Darwin and ahead at genetic engineering.
Jesus and the modern seeker
It may take an act of great will to see past the relics of tradition to something new.
The fundamentalist agenda
Fundamentalism may be absolutely natural, ancient, and powerful—but the liberal impulse makes us humane.
Human rights and the evil of terrorism
Terrorists commit vicious human rights crimes. But they also thrive on the crimes of others.
Unitarian Universalism's humanist legacy
Seventy years of religious humanism.
Science and its metaphors
How far does the authority of science go?
The reclamation of liberalism
Comparing Fareed Zakaria and James Luther Adams.
Unitarian Universalist questions about war
How do you "support the troops" when you oppose the war?
Adin Ballou's influential utopianism
The Universalist-Unitarian who influenced Tolstoy, Gandhi, and King.
Emerson's shadow
The shadow side to Emerson's influence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Unitarian legacy
What do we see in Ralph Waldo Emerson on his 200th birthday?
Power, religious faith, and social change
The challenge of citizen participation and the democratic process.
Ellery Schempp stood up for religious minorities
Ellery Schempp's 1958 lawsuit ended mandatory Bible readings in school.
We need more patriots
Nationalism threatens the true meaning of American patriotism.
Are Americans afraid of freedom?
Many Americans see liberty as terrorism's accomplice.
Religious dialogue in a divided world
The urgent need for Muslim dialogue and a Jew's quest to pray with Christians and Muslims.
It came upon a Unitarian midnight clear
Edmund Hamilton Sears's beloved carol longs for peace.
Why Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't a UU
A reflection on race and theology.
Against vengeance
Witness for the things that make for peace.
How to be a cultural broker
Things you can to help refugees in your town.
The middle of everywhere
How Lincoln, Nebraska, came to be the picture of America's multicultural future.
Interview with Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Parker
What to do when experience challenges tradition.
Can violence save?
Challenging the theology of redemptive suffering.
Suffering does not redeem us
Two feminist theologians say suffering redeems nothing.
Has terrorism shaken our religious principles?
9/11 challenges Unitarian Universalists to think about evil.
An urgent encounter with Islam
A reading list in the aftermath of 9/11.
Pacifists and pragmatists
We are not a peace church. We are not a war church.
Unitarian and Universalist roots of the American Red Cross
Two volunteer organizations led by Unitarians and Universalists set a foundation for the American Red Cross.
Special issue: Life with terrorism
A guide to stories from UU World's special issue responding to the attacks of 9/11.
Breaking the cycle of violence
Responding to terrorism without promoting more violence.
Unshakable foundations
What endures in a time of terror: A sermon from the week of 9/11.
Universalism: A theology for the 21st century
To the Universalist, truth in religion is like truth in poetry.
UUA supported publication of Pentagon Papers
Beacon Press and the Pentagon Papers.
Wartime origins of the flaming chalice
The flaming chalice was first used by the Unitarian Service Committee.
Timeline of the Selma civil rights campaign
From Selma to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Claiming and reclaiming Universalism
Reflecting on the Unitarian and Universalist merger.
Stories from Universalist history
Stories of Universalists.
