{"id":66,"date":"2026-08-04T18:40:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.uuha.org\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:23:36","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uuha.org\/?page_id=66","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating over 60 years as the voice for Humanism in the Unitarian Universalist Association<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"123\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/test.uuha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unitarianuniversalism_brochure_2018-123x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uuha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unitarianuniversalism_brochure_2018-123x300.jpg 123w, https:\/\/uuha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unitarianuniversalism_brochure_2018.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 123px) 100vw, 123px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UU Humanist Association was founded in 1962 by Edwin H. Wilson, Lester Mondale, and others. It was originally called the &#8220;Fellowship of Religious Humanists,&#8221; then the &#8220;Friends of Religious Humanism,&#8221;, and then the &#8220;HUUmanists.&#8221; The UU Humanist Association is a related organization of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/uua.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unitarian Universalist Association<\/a> (UUA), and was founded to advance Humanism within Unitarian Universalism and to promote Humanism in general. Many UU Humanist members are also members or friends of UUA congregations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unitarian Universalists were instrumental in the writing of all three of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanhumanist.org\/Humanism\/Humanist_Manifesto_III\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Humanist Manifestos<\/a>&nbsp;and in the founding of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/americanhumanist.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Humanist Association<\/a>, the principal organization representing Humanists in the U.S. You can read more about the UU\/Humanist connection in the 2003 UU World article,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uuworld.org\/ideas\/articles\/27168.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Our Humanist Legacy<\/a><\/em>, by UUA past president William F. Schultz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UU Humanist Association is a member of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/secular.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Secular Coalition for America<\/a>, a 501(c)4&nbsp;advocacy organization whose purpose is to amplify the diverse and growing voice of the non-theistic community in the political and civic life of the United States. We are also a member of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/iheu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Humanist and Ethical Union<\/a> which&nbsp;represents the global Humanist movement that defends human rights and promotes Humanist values world-wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating over 60 years as the voice for Humanism in the Unitarian Universalist Association The UU Humanist Association was founded in 1962 by Edwin H. Wilson, Lester Mondale, and others. It was originally called&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuha.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uuha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/uuha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuha.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}