Our Shared Values

In June 2024, General Assembly delegates passed a new Shared Values statement. The new values are Equity, Generosity, Interdependence, Justice, Pluralism, and Transformation, centered around Love.

Article II of the UUA Bylaws include the “Principles and Purposes” as the foundation of the work of the UUA, its member congregations, and its covenanted communities. Unitarian Universalist Association bylaws mandate that Article II be reviewed every fifteen years. It has been revised numerous times over the history of the UUA. The last wholesale revision before this year happened in 1987.

There is no doubt that our theological heritage, as our present, is filled with paradox, contradiction, failures, successes, short-comings, and brilliant aspirations. The patchwork quilt of our theological heritage is torn and fraying in places, and it is stunningly vibrant in others. Some sections have been mended or wholly replaced. Articulating theology as well as living in religious community is a messy business. As we mature spiritually as a tradition and as people, we develop our capacities to be with the broken and the beautiful, the contradictions and the complexities.
–Rev. Dr. Sheri Prud’homme