WHY ARE YOU YOU ?

The history of the Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU) community where adolescents discovered their true selves and were empowered to incite positive change in the world.

Forty years after the program's inception, those former participants reflect on how being a part of the program shaped them and still informs their lives.

YRUU, established in 1983, grew out of the Unitarian Universalists’ rich tradition of religious youth education. It was disbanded in 2008.

Music from: Charise Sowells, Firefly, Dr. Pants, and Lea Morris

among others

Stories from:
Christina Branum-Martin, Sam Ames, Ayann Kafi, Brian Schorr, Bart Frost, Jason Lydon,
Jen Devine, Bill Sinkford, Caprce Young,
Lilia Ibrahim, Wayne Arnason, Hank Pierce,
Elizabeth Carrier-Ladd, Kristen Harper,
James Coomes, Joseph Santos-Lydons,
Christine Mirsha, Julie Rising-Byran,
Ginger Fisher-Young, Anna Sale,
Aileen O'Connor McConnell Dashurova, 
Julie-Ann Silberman-Bunn, Jaco ten Hove, 
Erik David Carlson, Abbey Tennis, 
Sarah Gibb Millspaugh, Cynthia Landrum,
 Betty-Jeanne Rüters-Ward

Current youth from the Youth Empowerment Spirituality conference on Star Island and youth participants from the Continuum Conference.