Pluralism often refers to a society where groups of people with different cultural and religious beliefs and practices coexist peacefully, while maintaining their separate cultures. Most of us know that it is vital to all of us as citizens of the United States and the World, but why would Unitarian Universalism—one religion—put Pluralism forward as our second value, after Interdependence, in the proposed Article II revisioning of the principals and sources? What does it mean to be a truly pluralist religious community? How do our histories, personal and denominational, interact with that aspiration? Is anything valuable lost in the name of Pluralism? Let’s see.

Topics: Pluralism