Both Unitarianism and Universalism, as religious movements, have long histories, dating at least to the time of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.  Likewise, forms of civil disobedience have been practiced for a long time (the Boston Tea Party is often cited as an early example, although not everyone agrees that was true civil disobedience).  However, Unitarian Universalism, as a unified modern denomination is an American invention, created in 1961 when the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America merged.  Likewise, civil disobedience, as understood today, could also arguably be called an American invention (Hannah Arendt called it an American tradition)—first forcefully articulated as a moral and political stance by that quintessential American character Henry David Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience (1849).  During these trying political times in our country, I think we should look to these two “American inventions”—the UUA and civil disobedience—as continuing sources of optimism that light will eventually overcome our present darkness.

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