Earlier, I mentioned the possibility of a Universalist church outside the UUA. As it happens, there are several, though not nearly as many (who opted out of joining the UUA) as there once were. Some died; some became Community Churches and lost their Universalist identity.
One of the survivors — Universalist and Christian, and dear to me — is Rockwell Universalist Church, Winder, Georgia.
Some — well, so far, one — Unitarian church(es) are in the American Unitarian Conference while an case for independence is made by the [2009. defunt, www.utahunitarian.org] Wasatch Front Unitarian Fellowship “an Independent Unitarian Presence in Utah”
Some Unitarian Universalist congregations, especially out west, seem to have a relationship with a UUA district, but aren’t members of the UUA. Whether these small groups ever plan to join the UUA is unclear. I’ve put the names of a couple (with membership numbers in parentheses) in the extended entry.
Pacific Southwest
http://www.pswd.uua.org/
Wickenburg, Arizona: Unitarian Universalists of Wickenburg (30)
Las Vegas, Nevada: UU Community of Southern Nevada (16)
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Scott – You can add to your list of churches outside the UUA…
*Congregational Universalist Church of Jersey, OH
Posted 30 Oct 2003 at 3:12 pm ¶*First Universalist Church, Middleport, NY (still in the NY convention)
*Church of Universal Fellowship, Orono, ME (this one is not small, it is part of the Northeast District)
*Community Church of Bristol, NY
*First Congregational Universalist Church of Mt. Pleasant, IA
*Unitarian Fellowship of Petoskey, MI (rumor has it they own a farmhouse)
I tried to follow the link for rockwelluniversalist.com but I think the website is dead. I wonder if that means the church has disbanded? That’s too bad because my family and I live in the Loganville, GA area and would’ve loved to visit.
Posted 31 Mar 2009 at 12:07 pm ¶@David. I suspect not, or at least not because of the site. They lost the domain at one point to a pr0n-spammer. That said, I’ve not been in the mix for some time.
Posted 31 Mar 2009 at 1:49 pm ¶the church was still active as of 2008 – i have no idea of the current theological orientation though….
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