What beliefs do all Unitarians hold?<\/p>\n
None.\u00a0 Instead, Unitarians affirm every individual\u2019s right to search freely for their own truth and meaning.<\/p>\n
This lack of an imposed, predetermined doctrine reflects UU\u2019s nature as an \u201corthopraxy.\u201d\u00a0 An orthopraxy is a faith community that affirms peoples\u2019 ability to develop wisdom based upon their own personal experiences involving justice and love.\u00a0 Since everyone\u2019s life is unique, individuals are likely to have somewhat different priorities regarding what\u2019s most important to them.<\/p>\n
An orthopraxy may be contrasted with an \u201corthodoxy,\u201d which is a hierarchical religion bound to a uniform set of established beliefs.<\/p>\n
As an orthopraxy, the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship imposes no creed or dogma on its members.\u00a0 It has no litmus test for belonging.\u00a0 SUUF encourages congregants to bring with them their doubts and questions, their evolving system of beliefs and spiritual practices, and the insights they\u2019ve drawn from their own actions and perspectives.<\/p>\n
UUs are encouraged to be life-long learners. Their explorations may take them to many sources.\u00a0They might draw from scripture and science, from nature and philosophy, from personal experience and ancient tradition.<\/p>\n
They also remain open to new knowledge and life lessons picked up every day that may guide them inward, toward deeper engagement with their own infinite spirit, as well as outward, toward greater understanding of humanity and the material world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What beliefs do all Unitarians hold? None.\u00a0 Instead, Unitarians affirm every individual\u2019s right to search freely for their own truth and meaning. This lack of an imposed, predetermined doctrine reflects UU\u2019s nature as an \u201corthopraxy.\u201d\u00a0 An orthopraxy is a faith community that affirms peoples\u2019 ability to develop wisdom based upon their own personal experiences involving … Continue reading UU Is an Orthopraxy (#126)<\/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-8705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705","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=8705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8935,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions\/8935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}