For President’s day we look at another core principle that defines who we are as Unitarian Universalists: the principle that every human being is a source of wisdom and goodness, and that government at any scale should be built up from individual power.

For Valentine’s Day we look at love. The romantic expression of love flows from an even more powerful life force called Eros. It is the passion of Eros that inspires our justice work and whose energy we stand beside.

The seven principles of Unitarian Universalism are an attempt to express the values that we share. But even deeper than those are principles that we can access by asking “why are these seven principles important to us?” One answer, hinted in our fourth principle, is that Unitarian Universalism strives to be a reality-based religion.