About Us
In the Universalist Spirit of Love and Hope, We Give, Receive, and Grow.
Creating Beloved Community
First Universalist Church of Minneapolis is a 900+ member church, and 350+ children and youth, with a 160+ year history of being a powerful voice for progressive religion and social justice in Minneapolis and beyond. We are firmly rooted in an ethic of Love with a wide embrace. On any given Sunday, you’ll find us preaching about justice in the sanctuary and creating radically inclusive community in our religious education classes that welcome more than 400 children and youth. Join us as we seek to follow where Love is leading us next.
Who We Are
We are a community of seekers. We are ever building a place of belonging, radical welcome, and spiritual deepening. We develop and nurture resilience, for each of us, and together as a community. We bring our shared values into the wider world in service of justice, compassion, and collective liberation.
The fabric of our religious community is woven with the threads of our diverse and unique spiritual journeys. As Unitarian Universalists, we are bound together by a covenant that has love at the center: we seek truth and meaning, together, nurturing spaces where the possibility of insight and new understanding is alive.
We hold one another in the joys and sorrows of our human experience. We mark life’s important moments and passages together, affirming that you are not alone, we are holding it together.
We are a multigenerational congregation. The voices and wisdom of children and youth are welcomed into worship, and we cultivate spaces where they can learn and connect together.
Our church is a Unitarian Universalist congregation. Learn more about Unitarian Universalists.
Visionary Goals
The people of First Universalist practice Beloved Community among and beyond us. To do this we…
- Honor the richness of our Unitarian Universalist faith and embody its love within the walls of our church and beyond.
- Foster our connection with, care for, and action on behalf of Earth’s environment and all of life.
- Pursue our individual and collective work for justice, in relationship with those most affected by systems of oppression.
- Widen the opportunities for leadership participation and engagement in the many facets of how our church functions and thrives.
- Provide meaningful presence to one another in times of joy, grief, and change.