What is the Unitarian Universalist Association?
The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is of recent origin. It came into being in Boston, Massachusetts in 1961 with the consolidation of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America. Although Unitarians and Universalists have separate organizational histories in the United States, their antecedents are intertwined in past culture and religions.
In an article in UU World, the magazine of the UUA, Forrest Church, senior minister of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City, wrote, "We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny. That we are brothers and sisters by nature, our Unitarian and especially our Universalist forbears affirmed as a matter of faith: Unitarianism by positing a single God, Universalism by offering the promise of a shared salvation."
