The Canadian Unitarian Council ( CUC ) is the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada.

However, for Young Religious Unitarian Universalists ( YRUU ) programming in Canada, the " Central " and " Eastern " regions are combined to form a youth region known as " QuOM " ( Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes ), giving the youth only three regions for their activities.

Most of the member congregations of the UUA are in the United States and Canada, but the UUA has also admitted congregations from Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Pakistan ( although UUA policy appears at present to be against admitting any new congregations from outside North America, rather having them form their own national bodies and having these bodies join the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ).

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 ).

* Canadian Unitarian Council, the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada

* Canadian Unitarian Council, the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada

Outside of weekly worship services, many small gatherings of Unitarian Universalists incorporate a lit chalice, often accompanied by readings, as a reminder of the religious nature of the gathering.

On June 29, 1984, the Unitarian Universalists became the first major church " to approve religious blessings on homosexual unions.

On June 29, 1984, the Unitarian Universalists became the first major church " to approve religious blessings on homosexual unions.

* James Luther Adams, the most influential theologian among American Unitarian Universalists in the 20th century, who had been reared among the Plymouth Brethren, but who built his reputation by filming interviews of anti-Hitler underground resistance neo-Orthodox German theologians and Protestant church leaders.

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte is the largest church for Unitarian Universalists in the Charlotte, North Carolina area.

The church maintains membership in the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ), organized in 1961 by the merger of the Unitarians and the Universalists.

The Unitarian Universalists of Russia were a founding member of the ICUU.

New England Universalists rejected the Puritan forefathers ' emphasis on the select few, the Elect, who were reportedly saved from eternal damnation by a just God.

Instead Universalists asserted that'all were universally saved '.

In the 19th century, Unitarians and Universalists were active in abolitionism, the women's movement, the temperance movement, and other social reform movements.

Christian Universalists such as Hosea Ballou argued that Jesus taught Universalist principles including universal reconciliation and the divine origin and destiny of all souls, and that these teachings were further developed by Saint Paul, Saint Peter, and Saint John the Apostle.

The Schempps were Unitarian Universalists, a theologically liberal religious community.

Those who were associated with either Unitarianism or Universalism before the merger of the two, or who were instrumental in early works that lead to either would be better included in: Category: Unitarians or: Category: Christian Universalists

Although the Universalist Church as a denomination never fully embraced Spiritualism, many Universalists were sympathetic to this nineteenth-century movement.

In 1830, Ballou aligned himself with the Restorationists, who were upset with the views among some Universalists, that complete salvation and no punishment would follow death.

Unitarian Universalists, who practice probably the most liberal of all religions, do not share a creed.

Some sects, such as the Universalists, believe in universalism that all souls will ultimately be saved and that there are no torments of hell.

In 19th-century Universalism, Universalists such as Thomas Allin ( 1891 ) claimed that Clement of Alexandria, Origen and Gregory of Nyssa taught that even the Devil and fallen angels will eventually be saved.

Both of these predecessor organizations began as Christian Unitarian and Christian Universalist denominations ; but modern Unitarian Universalists define themselves as non-creedal, and therefore they are not limited to Christian beliefs or affinities, but may also draw wisdom from other religions and philosophies as well, such as Humanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Earth-centered spirituality, among others, or different combinations of them.

Many of these are Unitarian Universalists in other countries, members of the military, prisoners or non-mobile elderly.

Unitarian Universalists draw inspiration from a variety of other faith traditions.

Many Unitarian Universalists consider themselves humanists, while others hold to Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, natural theist, atheist, agnostic, absurdist, pantheist, pagan, Taoist, and other beliefs.

In short, Unitarian Universalists respect the important religious texts of other religions.

The " borrowing " of religious rituals from other faith traditions by Unitarian Universalists was discussed at the UU General Assembly in 2001 during a seminar titled Cultural Appropriation: Reckless Borrowing or Appropriate Cultural Sharing by the Religious Education Dept, UUA.

These churches and others form minor pockets of Christian theological Universalists which remain, but most are affiliated with other denominations.

The issue resurfaced in the 1850s with the Fugitive Slave Act and other compromises ; the Universalists, along with various other denominations, vigorously opposed slavery as immoral.

* Mexico ( two groups: the Free Unitarian Congregation of Mexico, ( LCUM ) and the Unitarian Universalists of Mexico AC )

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Unitarian Universalists do not share a creed ; rather, they are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth and by the understanding that an individual's theology is a result of that search and not obedience to an authoritarian requirement.

Like the beliefs of Unitarian Universalists, politics are decided by individuals, not by congregations or the denomination.

He has suggested that Unitarian Universalists regain their proper seat at the interfaith table by making this language their own.

" The debate seems part and parcel of an attendant effort at increasing biblical literacy amongst Unitarian Universalists, including the publication of a book by the UUA's Beacon Press written by former UUA President John Buehrens.

* Religion among the Unitarian Universalists ; converts in the stepfathers ' house by Robert B. Tapp, New York: Seminar Press, 1973, ISBN 0-12-914650-1

In 1852, Tufts College was founded by Christian Universalists who worked for years to open a non-sectarian institution of higher learning.

Universalists argue that God would be motivated by His love for His creation to save all souls from eternal damnation.

* American Unitarian Conference was founded in 2000 by several Unitarian Universalists who felt that the Unitarian Universalist Association had become too liberal, both theologically and politically

Most of the Unitarian " descendants " hold membership in the Unitarian Universalist Association, founded in the 1960s by a merger with the theologically similar Universalists.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries several histories published by Universalists, including Hosea Ballou ( 1829 ), Thomas Whittemore ( 1830 ), John Wesley Hanson ( 1899 ) and George T. Knight ( 1911 ), argued that belief in universal reconciliation was found in early Christianity and in the Reformation, and ascribed Universalist beliefs to Origen, Clement of Alexandria, and others.

Nowadays Spanish Unitarian Universalists ( gathered still in 2 congregations, Madrid and Barcelona, after an unsuccessful attempt to create a third fellowship in La Coruña ( 2008 )) are looking for alternate ways of legalization that preclude the existence of SUUE as it had been originally conceived by its promoters.

Universalists by definition believe that all people will eventually be reconciled with God, and hence that there is no such thing as an eternal sin.

* Norton capsule biography from The Unitarians and the Universalists by David Robinson