About UU Quest

UU Quest is a journey being taken to help create further language, language which will greatly aid in the describing of the experiences experienced by those who went throw Unitarian Universalist (UU) Sunday school and or Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU)/Liberal Religious Youth (LRY). Yes language that will not only help to describe these experiences but also attempt to describe the traditions which, are native to UU society and the fundamental elements of these experiences, not to mention the heart and soul of UUism for those that go throw them.

UU Quest also aims to help the wider UU community come to terms with, the differences of cultural and spiritual reference that exist between raised UU and those that come to UU community as adults and what that means for the wider UU identity and its places of communal gathering. And to help UUs of all ages to crate and maintain what Sharon Hwang Colligan describes in her document “Children of a Different Tribe – UU Young Adult Developmental Issues” as the Magic Pool.

UU Quest seeks to achieve this by, first off creating and implementing a survey/questioner. One that will attempt to find out what individual UUs think and feel about certain UU things, such as its culture, rituals, identity and their relationship to wider UUism, including its individuals and its places of communal gathering. And secondly it seeks to gather a list of relevant resource/documents to which the quest members will find useful. Then thirdly UU Quest will seek personal testimonials about UU culture, ritual, identity and their relationship on UUism as well as the place of individual UUs in all of it. And some of the voices, UU quest hops to hear from include current UUs, with some hopefully being alumnus of LRY, current and past YRUUers, Ministers of Religious Education and Directress of Religious Education, Sunday school teachers and facilitators, and youth advisors. Plus also hearing from former UUs, some of which hopefully were, past YRUUers/LRYers, Ministers of Religious Education and Directress of Religious Education, Sunday school teachers and facilitators, and youth advisors.

And the ultimate goal of UU Quest is to turn all this gathered info into either a documentary (film or some sort of mixed/multimedia document) and or resource guide plus a series of experiential workshop modules. But until then all that is gathered will be available right on this web site.

And who is undertaking this UU quest? Well for right now it is just raised and current UU Devin Murphy who is currently residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, but hopefully others will come join him for if not the hole quest at least a good portion of it. So if you have resources, skills/talents, time and or energies to which you may want to contribute you can by sending an e-mail to Devin Murphy at nived_90@yahoo.ca, with “UU Quest” in the subject line.