Unitarian-Universalists believe that personal experience, conscience, and reason should be the final authorities in religion. In the end religious authority lies not in a book, person, or institution, but in ourselves. Unitarian-Universalists put religious insights to the test of our hearts and minds.

Unitarian-Universalists uphold the free search for truth. Unitarian-Universalists will not be bound by a statement of belief. Unitarian-Universalists do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed.Unitarian-Universalists say ours is a noncreedal religion.

Unitarian-Universalists believe that religious wisdom is ever changing. Human understanding of life and death, the world and its mysteries, is never final. Revelation is continuous. Unitarian-Universalists celebrate unfolding truths known to teachers, prophets, and sages throughout the ages.