Organizations

The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) equips congregations for health and vitality, to support and train lay and professional leaders, and to advance Unitarian Universalist values in the world.​ Learn more:  https://www.uua.org.

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) advances human rights through grassroots collaboration in more than a dozen countries throughout the world, UUSC fosters social justice and works toward a world free from oppression. Learn more:  https://www.uusc.org/.

The International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women is a nonprofit organization in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council focusing on global women’s rights and empowerment.  Learn more:  https://www.intlwomensconvo.org/page/about-us.

Books

Love at the Center: Unitarian Universalist Theologies: Sofia Betencourt, Editor. You’ll find personal testimony to love’s power, reminders of the centrality of love throughout the long histories of Universalism and Unitarianism, and theologies of love drawn from many different expressions of Unitarian Universalism.

A Liberal Religious Path: A Short, Personal Introduction to Unitarian Universalism: James Kubal-Komoto. For those who yearn for an experience of spirituality and religion that traverses a middle ground between the rigidity of religious orthodoxy and the emptiness of a completely secular culture. Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religious path that winds its way through that middle ground.

Welcome: A Unitarian Universalist Primer: Patricia Frevert, Editor. Features common Unitarian Universalist prayers and readings, including the seven Principles and six Sources, chalice lightings, quotations from UUs of yesterday and today, and a glossary.

The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide: Susan Frederick-Gray, Editor. The most complete introduction to Unitarian Universalism available, covering ministry, worship, religious education, social justice, community, and history. Foreword by lifelong Unitarian Universalist Melissa Harris-Perry.

Widening the Circle of Concern: The Report of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change, UUA Commission on Institutional Change, Author. The Report analyzes structural and systemic racism and white supremacy culture within Unitarian Universalism and makes recommendations to advance long-term change. You can access the text of the report for free on uua.org.

Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism, Nancy Palmer Jones, Karin Lin, Authors. Shares how five diverse congregations encounter frustrations and disappointments, as well as hope and wonder, once they commit to the journey to create multicultural, anti-racist Beloved Community. With the discussion guide for Mistakes and Miracles, created for the UUA’s 2022-23 Common Read, Unitarian Universalists can discuss how to apply the book’s lessons in their own congregations.

Standing Before Us, Dorothy May Emerson, Editor. Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936, An Impressive and thorough collection of 160 years of women’s reformation work.

Transcendentalism Yesterday and Today:  A Collection of Addresses and Sermons on Trancendentalist Themes, Barry Andrews, Author. Transcendentalism is an on-going source of inspiration for Unitarian Universalists today. The Transcendentalists show us that by concerted effort we can become receptive to insights that will elevate our spirit and motivate us in our efforts to make society more just and to protect the natural world.

Three Prophets of Religious Liberalism: Channing, Emerson, Parker:  Conrad Edick Wright, Author, Editor. Three landmark addresses in the history of American Unitarianism in one convenient volume. Edited by one of the leading UU historians. William Ellery Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity,” Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Divinity School Address” and Theodore Parker’s “The Transient and Permanent in Christianity.” Second edition.