Innovative New Ideas
Generated by UUCC at General Assembly
On Demand Video on Working Class Caucus Findings
Check out this UU-CC video, originally created for viewing at the 2024 UUA General Assembly, about our working class caucus project and its findings on how to make our denomination more welcoming for working class members.
Meaningful Class Conversations Cohorts
UU Class Conversations led six sessions (three morning sessions repeated in the evening) with our cohort partner Class Aware at the 2024 UUA General Assembly to provide members of UU congregations and organizations an opportunity to engage in lively, thoughtful discussions about social class, classism and becoming more inclusive. While UU-CC workshops are interactive, the cohort sessions (which offered interactive components) emphasized building community and cohesion through longer discussion opportunities about creating welcoming UU spaces.
While participants were free to attend just one cohort session, the cohorts were designed to build upon each other. Some participants attended all three! Two even took part in all six! As one of the repeat attendees said, “Each time is different because there are different people, creating new ideas and solutions.”
UU Class Conversations works to empower UU congregations and organizations by helping them explore all facets of social class at the personal, organizational and societal levels. Our shared goal is to address and end classism and build bridges across class differences. We believe that together we can create deep, sustained relationships that build Beloved Community and bring about a more equitable world.
What’s New at UU-CC?
Meditations on Class:
Reflections, Insights and Commentaries
Written by UUs for UUs, this hot-of-the-press anthology offers chalice lightings, rituals, sermons, readings and more to help our Beloved Community become more aware of the many ways we can celebrate our social class diversity.
Sharing their lived experience, UU leaders and lay people from across our denomination provide the inspiration and spiritual nourishment we need to dismantle classism and become more welcoming of people of all class backgrounds. Order your copy today. Learn more.
Calling All UU Youth! Let’s Talk About Class.
Join our youth caucus roundtable discussions (coming soon). We are recruiting youth now to become active members of UU Class Conversations. We want to hear from you. Share your ideas on class and ways to explore class and address classism. Your voices matter! We want to hear the perspectives on class from the future leaders of our faith community. Learn more.
Unique Online Workshop to Build Church Membership
BECOMING A MORE WELCOMING CLASS-INCLUSIVE FAITH COMMUNITY IS AVAILABLE TO YOUR CONGREGATION NOW.
After years of declining U.S. church attendance, the trend reversed in 2022. Powering the increase were Millennials and Gen-Xers who value authenticity, social consciousness, teamwork and diversity — Unitarian Universalism tenets. This highly interactive workshop can be custom-tailored for your UU congregation.
It offers strategies to make your congregations more authentically class-inclusive and welcoming to these new potential members.
Learn more when you contact info@uuclassconversations.org. We look forward to connecting.
