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

In 1946 The Commission on the Work of the Churches of the British Unitarians recommended that “ the Assembly should interest itself in the formation of a Canadian Unitarian Association which many Unitarians there believe to be necessary .”

Some member groups have only a few hundred members ; while the largest, the Unitarian Universalist Association, has over 200, 000 members and is larger than all the other member groups put together.

The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) became particularly interested in the establishment of a council when it had to deal with an increasing number of applications for membership from congregations outside North America.

* Australian and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association ( ANZUUA ), 500 members.

* Unitarian Universalist Association, USA, 157, 920 members.

* Unitarian Universalist Association of Sri Lanka, 100 members.

Some regional groups that adhere to variants of the Humanist life stance, such as the humanist subgroup of the Unitarian Universalist Association, do not belong to the IHEU.

Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ), in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America.

Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of Samuel Bache, a well-known Unitarian minister, he studied with James Stimpson, Birmingham City Organist, and with violinist Alfred Mellon while being educated at his father's school.

Among these were the seven couples who were party to the lawsuit that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage, including Julie Goodridge and Hillary Goodridge, who were the first to apply for a license in Boston and whose eight-year old daughter Annie was their ringbearer and flower girl at their wedding at the Unitarian Universalist Association of Boston.

The book was referenced in the manifesto of Jim David Adkisson, the gunman who killed two people and wounded seven others in the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting.

Unitarian Universalism is often referred to by its members as a living tradition, and the principles and purposes have been modified over time to reflect changes in spiritual beliefs among the membership.

Unitarian Universalists and Quakers still share many principles, notably that they are creedless religions with a long-standing commitment to social justice.

Although there is flexibility in the nuances of belief or basic truths for the individual Unitarian Christian, general principles of faith have been recognized as a way to bind the group in some commonality.

Among the classical Unitarian principles that the AUC promotes are the unity and providence of God, the compatibility of faith and reason, and the ability of religion and science to work together to improve the human condition.

The mission of SUUSI is to provide a one-week experience evoking the best within us, in concert with Unitarian Universalist principles.

After three years spent in a charge at Worcester, he returned as head of Daventry Academy, a post which he continued to hold till 1789, when, having adopted Unitarian principles, he resigned.

Deliberately without an official creed or dogma ( per the principle of freedom of thought ), many Unitarian Universalists make use of the Principles and Purposes as a definition of what UUs believe.

The most common symbol of Unitarian Universalism is the flaming chalice, often framed by two overlapping rings that many interpret as representing Unitarianism and Universalism ( the symbol has no official interpretation ).

While the 2001 Canadian census done by Statistics Canada put Canadian Unitarians at 17, 480, the latest membership statistics from the Canadian Unitarian Council show as of September 1, 2007 they had 5, 150 " official " members.

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, from where James Freeman began teaching Unitarian doctrine in 1784, and was appointed rector and revised the Prayer Book according to Unitarian doctrines in 1786.

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, which settled James Freeman ( 1759 – 1835 ) in 1782, and revised the Prayer Book into a mild Unitarian liturgy in 1785.

The family refused an offer of an official burial at Westminster Abbey and a Unitarian ceremony was held in Birmingham.

" Turn the World Around " was also included in the 2005 official hymnal supplement of the Unitarian Universalist Association, " Singing the Journey.

* General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches official site

* Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, Inc., official web site

Frederick Henry Hedge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, and George Putnam ( 1807 – 1878 ; the Unitarian minister in Roxbury ) met in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 8, 1836, to discuss the formation of a new club ; their first official meeting was held eleven days later at Ripley's house in Boston.

Last year Unitarian Universalist and Muslim clubs were permitted to become official for the first time.

Her song " Singing For Our Lives " appears in Singing the Living Tradition, the official hymnal of the Unitarian Universalist Association, under the title " We Are A Gentle, Angry People " ( Hymn # 170 ).

A flaming chalice is the most widely used symbol of Unitarianism and Unitarian Universalism ( UUism ) and the official logo of the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) and other Unitarian and UU churches and societies.

* American Unitarian Conference ( official website )