The second U word in the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship explains the group\u2019s sixth (out of seven) basic principles.\u00a0 \u201cUniversalism\u201d has the \u201cgoal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unlike some traditional religions, UUs\u2019 ethical responsibility is not to guide a particular faith group into Heaven, but to contribute to bringing all of humanity into a \u201cbeloved community on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
This goal is extravagant in its hopefulness and improbable in its prospects, since the world, as it is now, seems replete with aggression and injustice.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, UU holds a vision of peace achieved by peaceful means, liberty by liberatory means, and justice by just means.<\/p>\n
Of course, we won\u2019t succeed in our lifetimes, but we will improve ourselves and improve the world by trying.<\/p>\n
UUs are united, within their congregations and with other groups who share their values, in making the world a better place and in doing something more than just talk about it.<\/p>\n
Indeed, UUers see their Fellowship as a school for their spirit\u2014a place where they can ask what it means to be here, what they can do to help heal the world, what makes life meaningful.<\/p>\n
SUUF congregants want to know: how can I make a difference?; how can I expand my sense of community to all people?; how can my sense of Justice extend beyond \u201cjust us\u201d?\u00a0 They try to live out Mohandas Gandhi\u2019s advice \u201cto be the change you wish to see in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Any of us can do this at any time, internally or externally, in small or large ways.\u00a0 Remarkably, as we do our bit for peace, liberty, and justice for all people, we find our own lives becoming enriched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The second U word in the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship explains the group\u2019s sixth (out of seven) basic principles.\u00a0 \u201cUniversalism\u201d has the \u201cgoal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.\u201d Unlike some traditional religions, UUs\u2019 ethical responsibility is not to guide a particular faith group into Heaven, but to contribute to bringing … Continue reading UU and the World Community [#41]<\/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-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","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=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8804,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions\/8804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}