Unitarian Universalism is better described in terms of themes or strands than a bunch of names and dates. Although one or more of them have been dominant in certain periods, all are still present in our liberal religious DNA. These are, in my view at least, Liberal Christianity, Transcendentalism, Progressivism, Universalism, and Humanism.

Reverend Barry Andrews am Minister Emeritus of the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock on Long Island. Also, I am author of Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul; American Sage: The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson; and The Gospel According to This Moment: The Spiritual Message of Henry David Thoreau published by the University of Massachusetts Press.

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