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Notes from a conversation about Religious Education at 🧵

If what is happening in your sanctuary doesn't match what is happening with your youth religious education, you are doing it wrong.

Come-inners that joined UU have often grown up in a different theological tradition, they don't know our history. We need adult religious education.

We lose a lot of young adults when they age out of our youth programs because we don't offer 'play'. Adults also need play and creative options.

Do we want to support our youth, or do we want to be an elder community center?

There is a misconception that UUs can believe whatever we want. No. We are here to center love liberation and community care.

Because 'Unitarian Universalism' are big words people think that what we do is really complicated. It's not. Religious Educators are explaining this to four year olds and they get it. It's adults that make it complicated.

Brian Krohne

Our individual faith stories are important, but that is not what UU is. If you want to be on your own spiritual journey, why do you need other people for that? We need relationships and covenant.