{"id":558,"date":"2015-07-10T21:31:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/23.235.208.12\/~beacon38\/?page_id=558"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:20:47","slug":"what-is-unitarian-universalism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/what-is-unitarian-universalism\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Unitarian Universalist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>What is a Unitarian Universalist?<\/h3>\n<p>We are people of all ages, people of many backgrounds, and people of many beliefs. We create spirituality and community beyond boundaries, working for more justice and more love in our own lives and in the world.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_Tgc\">Our spirituality is unbounded \u2013 drawing from scripture and science, nature and philosophy, personal experience and ancient tradition \u2013 see our <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/principles-and-sources\/\">six Sources<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unitarian Universalists believe that each person is free to search for his or her own personal truth in regard to the nature and meaning of life.<\/p>\n<p>Unitarian Universalists affirm and promote <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/principles-and-sources\/\">eight Principles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>With excerpts from www.uua.org\/beliefs.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-1577 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1577 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BeaconCongregation-part.jpg\" alt='' title='BeaconCongregation-part' height=\"247\" width=\"216\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-558","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5964,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}