"Universalists believe that God is too good to damn people,

and Unitarians believe that people are too good to be damned by God"

More than one thousand congregations make up the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), which represents our interests on a continental scale. The Unitarian Universalist Association grew out of the consolidation, in 1961, of two religious denominations: the Universalists, organized in 1793, and the Unitarians, organized in 1825.

The Unitarian Universalist Association provides resources and offers consultations to local congregations, creates religious education curricula, spurs social action efforts, expedites the settlement of professional religious leaders, supports Beacon Press, and produces pamphlets, devotional material and the bimonthly journal The World.

The Unitarian Universalist Association works in concert with many organizations-including the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee ( UUSC ). Since its early work aiding victims of Nazi oppression, the UUSC has been helping people help themselves with service and advocacy programs around the world. The Unitarian Universalist Association also maintains offices at the United Nations headquarters in New York and in Washington, DC. The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Larger Fellowship provides a ministry to geographically isolated religious liberals.

• Adapted from "We Are Unitarian Universalists", by Rev. Marta Flanagan, published by UUA

• Pictures from UUA Archives