How (and Why) We Got Our Unitarian Universalist 7 Principles | Rev. David Schwartz

For more than two centuries, the principles and purposes of our tradition have changed in their expression and remained constant at the same time. How do we articulate what we believe in a creed-less religion? Rev. David walks though 150 years of Unitarian attempts to answer that question, looking at what stayed the same, what changed, and when any of it really matters!
Preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder on February 12, 2023.
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[@paigelorrabeth]

Thank you very much for this framing of the principles. I’ve been struggling with the change and I appreciate this perspective.

[@francesbrisco776]

Uu community is wonderful

[@moxafoot]

I'm very new to the UU community. This sermon has been so incredibly helpful. Thank you!

[@rainatempest4641]

I had no idea UU history was so full of inventors. Feeling even more proud to be a part of this community

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Me when im in heresy competition and my opponent is bro

[@uuubeut]

Define sacred - define liberalism does that include transhumanism ?

[@rogerforsberg3910]

A very astute question, Mme, and one that those historical worthies who originated liberalism from the ferment of the European Enlightenment, Scottish Enlightenment & English Enlightenment, i.e., John Locke, David Ricardo, Adam Smith, J S Mill, Wm Hazlitt, F-M de Voltaire, S T Coleridge, John Bright, Richard Cobden, etc, might not have had any immediate answer for. However, Friedrich Nietzsche might have an opinion -- were he still alive.