Check this space each week for information about the 8th Principle and how you can be involved in our process toward adopting it as a congregation.

Valentine’s Day is upon us, a time when our thoughts turn to love, usually a noun depicting romantic love. The 8th Principle asks us to think of love as a verb by calling us to build the Beloved Community. Based on the work of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., Beloved Community happens when people of diverse racial, ethnic, educational, class, gender, sexual orientation backgrounds/identities, and abilities come together in an interdependent relationship of love, mutual respect, and care that seeks to realize justice within the community and in the broader world. The authors of the 8th Principle note that none of the 7 Principles mentions love; by having “Beloved Community” in the 8th Principle, it brings our commitment to love higher in our consciousness, consistent with the UUA’s Side with Love campaign.

The 8th Principle: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”

 

Please visit www.8thprincipleuu.org for more information