Congregationalism is not limited only to organization of Christian congregations ; the principles of congregationalism have been inherited by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Canadian Unitarian Council.

Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.

In 1961 there were three Universalist churches with 68 members, and three Icelandic and eleven English-speaking Unitarian churches with 3, 476 members, and in addition 22 Unitarian fellowships with 773 members.

The plan was approved 8 to 1, with the understanding that “ The Council will function within the framework of the continental Unitarian Universalist Association .”

Up until July 2002, almost all member congregations of the CUC were also members of the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ).

The Canadian Unitarian Universalist youth of the day disapproved of this change in relationship.

While the name of the organization is the Canadian Unitarian Council, the CUC includes congregations with Unitarian, Universalist, Unitarian Universalist and Universalist Unitarian in their names.

* Unitarian Universalist Congregations in Canada

Category: Unitarian Universalist organizations

The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 respected leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baha ' i Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

By the mid-nineteenth century there were Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, United Free Methodist, Congregationalist, Baptist, Swedenborgian, Unitarian, Roman Catholic and Catholic Apostolic churches in the town.

One of Anna's brothers was Jenkin Lloyd Jones, who would become an important figure in the spread of the Unitarian faith in the Western United States.

The original initiative for its establishment was contained in a resolution of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches of the United Kingdom in 1987.

* General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, United Kingdom & Ireland, 6, 000 members.

Neopaganism in the United States accounts for roughly a third of all contemporary Pagans worldwide, and for some 0. 2 % of US population, figuring as the sixth largest non-Christian denomination in the US, after Judaism ( 1. 4 %), Islam ( 0. 6 %), Buddhism ( 0. 5 %), Hinduism ( 0. 3 %) and Unitarian Universalism ( 0. 3 %).

Unitarian Universalism was formed from the merger in 1961 of two historically Christian denominations, the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association, both based in the United States.

In the United States, the Unitarian movement began primarily in the Congregational parish churches of New England, which were part of the state church of Massachusetts.

In the aftermath of their various historical circumstances, some of these churches became member congregations of the Congregational organization ( later the United Church of Christ ), others became Unitarian and eventually became part of the UUA.

In several surveys, Unitarian Universalists in the United States most often identified themselves as humanists, while smaller numbers identified themselves as earth-centered, agnostic, theistic, atheistic, Buddhist, Christian, or pagan.

In the United States, the American Religious Identification Survey reported 629, 000 members describing themselves as Unitarian Universalist in 2001, an increase from 502, 000 reported in a similar survey in 1990.

For example, the Unitarian movement has never accepted the Godhood of Jesus, and therefore does not include those nontrinitarian belief systems which do — such as Oneness Pentecostalism, United Pentecostal Church International and the True Jesus Church — that maintain that Jesus is God as a single person.

A similar, though proportionally much smaller, phenomenon has taken place in the Unitarian churches in the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries, which remain more theistically based.

For a more specific discussion of Unitarianism as it evolved into a pluralistic liberal religious movement, see Unitarian Universalism ( and its national groups the Unitarian Universalist Association in the United States, the Canadian Unitarian Council in Canada, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches in the United Kingdom, and the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ).

Among them, Unitarian Ministries International, the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship ( UUCF, an affiliate of the UUA ), the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches ( GAUFCC ) of the United Kingdom, and the Unitarian Christian Association ( UCA, an affiliate of the GAUFCC ).

Unitarian Office of Social Responsibility,

In 1942 Robert Dexter, director of the Unitarian Service Committee, recruited Noel Field to pass on information to the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).

In 1793, Universalism emerged as a particular denomination of Christianity in the United States, eventually called the Universalist Church of America.

Other typical parade participants include local LGBT-friendly churches such as Metropolitan Community Churches, United Church of Christ, and Unitarian Universalist Churches, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays ( PFLAG ), and LGBT employee associations from large businesses.

Waltonville was for many years the smallest town in the United States to have a Universalist Church.

* First Parish of Westwood United Church, 340 Clapboardtree Street ( Association: United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalist Association ).

Among Bay Shore's places of worship are: The First Congregational Church, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Sinai Reform Temple, Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk, Bay Shore Jewish Center, the United Methodist Church, Bethel A. M. E Church, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Saint Luke's Lutheran Church, and Calvary Baptist Church.

The Abington case began when Edward Schempp, a Unitarian Universalist and a resident of Abington Township, Pennsylvania, filed suit against the Abington School District in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to prohibit the enforcement of a Pennsylvania state law that required his children, specifically Ellory Schempp, to hear and sometimes read portions of the Bible as part of their public school education.

Hingham is home to the United States ' oldest continuously used house of worship, the Old Ship Church, built in 1681, which currently serves members of the Unitarian Universalist faith.

The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations representing over 1000 Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States supports the measure.

Faith communities most often represented among the Seminary's students include: Moravian, Lutheran, UCC, Episcopal, United Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Quaker, Mennonite, Unitarian Universalist, African Methodist Episcopal, Assembly of God, Brethren, Reformed, and nondenominational.

* The General Assembly ( Unitarian Universalist Association ), representing member Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States

John Murray ( 1741 – 1815 ) is the founder of the Universalist denomination in the United States, a pioneer minister and an inspirational figure.

Star Island is owned and operated by The Star Island Corporation, as a religious and educational conference center with close ties to the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ.

It is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ.

Those in June and July, plus LOAS in August, tend to have a Unitarian Universalist orientation, while those marked " UCC " are affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

Phillips Theological Seminary, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a theological seminary associated with the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), the United Methodist Church, and the Unitarian Universalist Association.