Ideas

Faith is not fundamentally about one’s beliefs but about one’s commitments.

Journalists are involved in something essential to the concept of free people and a functioning and sustainable democracy.

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody saw her educational work as part of a larger effort to reform human society.

Engaging my ancestral Judaism enriches my Unitarian Universalism, despite Orthodox Judaism’s condemnation of partial Jews like me.

The Unitarian Universalist tradition has historically affirmed both faith and reason, worship and science.

What conservative Fareed Zakaria and democratic-socialist James Luther Adams have in common.

Founder of Hopedale community taught ‘nonresistance,’ influenced Tolstoy, Gandhi, and King.

Two books take up the knotty challenge of citizen participation and the democratic process.

The brilliant astronomer who was also the first woman to receive tenure on Harvard’s faculty also taught Sunday school at her Unitarian church.

Khaled Abou El Fadl calls for Muslim dialogue; Yossi Klein Halevi looks for interfaith partners in Israel and Palestine.