Love is the power that holds us together and is at the center of our shared values. We are accountable to one another for doing the work of living our shared values through the spiritual discipline of Love.
–Article II (Purposes and Covenant) of the Unitarian Universalist Association Bylaws
Over the past several weeks, as Amy has introduced each of the six shared values recently affirmed by the delegates to the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly, we have contemplated interdependence, pluralism, justice, transformation, generosity, and equity. Today we turn to the power that holds them all together. If “love is the why,” in the words of UU minister and poet Diana McLean–if love is at the center of our shared values and is the hoped-for center of our lives–is love also the “how”? What kind of spiritual discipline is Love?
Worship leader: Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern
Special music: The Season of Us: Bill Stanfield, guitar, and Stephanie Greivell, flute
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Atom Rainbow Shared Values graphic created for Unitarian Universalists by Tanya Webster