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

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.

The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ( ICUU ) is an umbrella organization founded in 1995 bringing together many Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists.

* European Unitarian Universalists, 120 members across Europe.

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

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

* Croatian Unitarian Universalists ( UU Section of the Humanitas association )

* Unitarian Universalists Hong Kong -- Hong Kong ( China )

Some Unitarian Universalists are eclectic pagans.

Unitarian Universalists look for spiritual inspiration in a wide variety of religious beliefs.

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

" Unitarian Universalists have been in the forefront of the work to make same-sex marriages legal in their local states and provinces, as well as on the national level.

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 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.

Unitarian Universalists draw on many different theological sources and have a wide range of beliefs and practices.

As of 2006, fewer than about 20 % of Unitarian Universalists identified themselves as Christian.

In the often-quoted words of Thomas Starr King, pastor of the San Francisco Unitarian Church at the beginning of the Civil War: " The Universalists believe that God is too good to damn them, and the Unitarians believe they are too good to be damned!

Unitarian congregations in Britain today meet under the auspices of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

The American Unitarian Conference and the Christian Universalist Association are the two most significant organizations representing these theological beliefs today.

This section relates to Unitarian churches and organizations today which are still specifically Christian within or outside Unitarian-Universalism, which embraces non-Christian religions.

The largest Unitarian denomination worldwide today is also the oldest surviving Unitarian denomination ( since 1565, first use of the term " Unitarian " 1600 ); the Unitarian Church of Transylvania ( in Romania, which is union with the Unitarian Church in Hungary ).

Its liberal stance allowed it to become a Unitarian church by 1820 ( when the congregation of Southover General Baptist Chapel joined ) and is still a Unitarian chapel today.

The church still follows its own Anglican / Unitarian hybrid liturgy today.

Socinianism was an early form of Unitarianism and the Unitarian Church today maintains a moral influence view of the atonement.

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

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

Significantly, the initiation and leadership of a major proportion of the reform movements, especially those in the first half of the nineteenth century, came from men and women of New England birth or parentage and from either Trinitarian or Unitarian Congregationalism.

This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.

" The Principles and Sources of Our Religious Faith " from the Canadian Unitarian Council

The first native seeds were planted with the publication of The Canadian Unitarian in Ottawa from 1940 to 1946, a small newsletter distributed with the newsletters of Canadian churches.

He came to Egypt in 1014 and assembled a group of scholars and leaders from across the world to establish the Unitarian movement.

Originally from Massachusetts, William Wright had been a Baptist minister, but he later joined his wife's family in the Unitarian faith.

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.

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.

Conversely, though every president from Washington to John Quincy Adams can be definitely assigned membership in an Anglican or Unitarian body, the significance of these affiliations is often downplayed as unrepresentative of their true beliefs.

In Rochester, she attended the local Unitarian Church and began to distance herself from the Quakers, in part because she had frequently witnessed instances of hypocritical behavior such as the use of alcohol amongst Quaker preachers.

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 19th century, under the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson ( who had been a Unitarian minister ) and other transcendentalists, Unitarianism began its long journey from liberal Protestantism to its present more pluralist form.

There is no single unifying belief that all Unitarian Universalists ( UUs ) hold, aside from complete and responsible freedom of speech, thought, belief, faith, and disposition.

These " Principles and Purposes " are taken from the by-laws which govern the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Unitarian Universalists tend to promote beliefs of a person that are based on their individual thoughts, and can range from strict monotheistic belief to less credal or more inclusive views.

As in theology, Unitarian Universalist worship and ritual are often a combination of elements derived from other faith traditions alongside original practices and symbols.