In 2024, Unitarian Universalists gathered at the annual General Assembly decided to transition from our previous principles to values instead, with love as the central value for all we represent. We will explore together why this change occurred and what it means to have love as our central value in today's troubling times.

When we ask ourselves to “Reimagine Thriving”, what does that mean? Why reimagine? Can’t we just imagine and get on with it?

Here’s why it’s important to reimagine: most of us already imagine thriving, and that usually means imagining what it means for me and people like me to thrive: for people of privilege, that means imagining thriving for people of privilege; white people for white people, Americans for Americans, global majority for global majority, and so forth.

The invitation to reimagine asks us to pause. In that sacred pause, we have the space to reflect on what it means for all communities to thrive. In that wondering, we can reorient ourselves away from individual goals and towards collective liberation. We can shift our ideas of the future to center love.

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Nicole Pressley serves as Organizing Strategy Director for Side With Love at the Unitarian Universalist Association. She began her work at the UUA in 2020 as National Organizer for UU the Vote, later serving as Side With Love’s Field and Programs Director. Over the past several years, she has helped strengthen organizing infrastructure, deepen partnerships, and coordinate national action on democracy, bodily autonomy, climate justice, and decriminalization.

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