A unique element of Unitarian Universalism (UU) is viewing democracy not only as a political value, but as a religious value, as well.<\/p>\n
Their fifth of their seven core principles is \u201cThe right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other words, although UUs value making individual ethical decisions, they recognize that none of them operates alone\u2014politically or religiously.<\/p>\n
They want to participate in making the policies that affect their lives, both in their Fellowship and in their secular community.<\/p>\n
Therefore, each congregation is essentially autonomous.\u00a0 Within a congregation, decisions are made via a democratic process\u2014and, whenever possible, by consensus.<\/p>\n
The Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship operates as a spiritual, covenantal community.\u00a0 Therefore, rather than gathering to believe alike, their unity lies more in a shared promise, as one UU teacher put it, \u201cto love alike.\u201d<\/p>\n
Granted, this approach doesn\u2019t always run smoothly.\u00a0 Some quip that a few congregants \u201ccan\u2019t see the forest for the me\u2019s,\u201d or that others \u201care a legend in their own mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
But SUUFers regularly reweave their fabric through \u201cwhat they do together, not what they believe together,\u201d and their integration process is always democratic, not autocratic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A unique element of Unitarian Universalism (UU) is viewing democracy not only as a political value, but as a religious value, as well. Their fifth of their seven core principles is \u201cThe right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.\u201d In other words, although UUs … Continue reading UU and Democracy [#40]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8803,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions\/8803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}