Unitarian Universalists honor freedom and individuality.\u00a0 Yet they recognize that their autonomy has limits, expressed in the seventh, and most basic, principle of their faith: \u201cRespect for the Interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.\u201d<\/p>\n
This \u201cweb of all existence\u201d is hard to define.\u00a0 Some call it the spirit of life, the ground of being, the oneness of all existence, the creative force, or even God.<\/p>\n
They understand what the character Shug in Alice Walker\u2019s novel\u00a0The Color Purple\u00a0<\/em>tried to explain, \u201cIt ain\u2019t something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself.\u00a0 I believe God is everything\u2026Everything that is or ever was or ever will be.\u00a0 And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you\u2019ve found it.\u201d<\/p>\n This orientation inspires in them a strong environmental consciousness\u2014a deep realization of the ongoing need to live lightly on the earth, where we all have our precarious existence.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why UUs refrain from, and try to repair, violations of the earth through pollution, overly zealous exploitation of natural resources, and self-centered overconsumption. They know that our planet is a great living system, whose future isn\u2019t guaranteed, that we are one with the earth, deeply thankful to be one of its many marvelous creatures, gratefully embedded within a vast interdependent, exquisite ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unitarian Universalists honor freedom and individuality.\u00a0 Yet they recognize that their autonomy has limits, expressed in the seventh, and most basic, principle of their faith: \u201cRespect for the Interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.\u201d This \u201cweb of all existence\u201d is hard to define.\u00a0 Some call it the spirit of life, … Continue reading The Web of Existence [#42]<\/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-6669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669","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=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8805,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/8805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}